B E R R I N   Y A N I K O G L U

 

Assoc. Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Program

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey

 

 

 

 

Research

Professional

Teaching

CS204-2009

CS512

 

Open Office Hours

 

Links

 

 

Research:  I work in the general area of Pattern Recognition & Computer Vision, specifically:

 

Biometrics:

    Online, offline signature verification (our system has won the first place at the 1st International Signature Verification Competition, SVC 2004).

    Fingerprint verification;

    Biometric Cryptosystems;

    Privacy in biometrics.

 

Handwriting Recognition & Document Analysis:

    Online and offline handwriting recognition;

    Document segmentation and layout analysis.

    Mathematical expression recognition.

 

Computational Biology: Computational approaches to protein folding problem.

 

More explanations about projects can be found under the Research link.

Education:

Ph.D. Computer Science, Dartmouth College, USA (1993)

Thesis: Segmentation and Recognition of Offline Cursive Handwriting

B.S. and B.A. Computer Engineering, Mathematics (double major), Bogazici University, Turkey (1988)

Galatasaray High-School, Istanbul, Turkey (1983)

Experience:

Fall 2000 - present: 

Sabanci University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Assoc. Professor in Computer Science and Engineering program.

1999-2000: 

IoFlex, Inc. Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Design and development of image processing and printing/publishing automation software

1996-1998: 

IBM Almaden Research Center, CA, USA

Visiting Scientist - various aspects of document segmentation and recognition problem

1994-1996: 

Xerox Imaging Systems, MA, USA (ScanSoft)

Researcher

Automatic document segmentation and benchmarking

Fall 1993 - 1994: 

Rockefeller University, NY, USA

Postdoc - Statistical approaches to understanding the human visual system

Teaching: 

Undergraduate :

CS 404 - Artificial Intelligence (2002/03/04/05/06/07F)

CS 204 – Advanced Programming (2002/03/04/05/06/07/-/09S)      

Project 102 (Fall)                   

Graduate

CS 512 – Machine Learning (2007S,2009F)

CS 515 - Neural Networks (2002S)

EECS 566 - Pattern Recognition (2002S w/ A. Erçil)

EECS 491 - Design Project (Fall)

CS 580 – Special Topics – Biometrics & Privacy (2007F)

Awards and Honors: 

2006    Alper Atalay Best Student Paper Award ("Online Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition", Proceedings of SIU 2006, H. Büyükbayrak, B. Yanıkoğlu, A. Erçil).

2004    Winner of the First International Signature Verification Competition (SVC 2004)

2003    Interpro Computing Awards – R&D Prize Finalist (Signature Verification System)

1998    IBM Research Division Award for work on handwriting recognition

1993-   Dartmouth College fellowship for doctoral studies.

1993-   Turkish Educational Association Scholarship for graduate studies.

1983-   H.O.Sabanci Academic Scholarship for undergraduate studies.

 

Research Activities: 

Co-Guest Editor, Journal of Electronic Imaging: Biometrics Special Section, March 2008.

Chair/Co-Chair  Document Recognition and Retrieval (2007,2008)

 

Program Committee member, ICPR, 2010.
Program Committee member, DAS, 2010.

Program Committee member, Biometric Technology for Human Identification (2009,2010)

Program Committee member, ICFHR, 2008.

Program Committee member, SIU (2006-)

Program Committee member, Document Recognition and Retrieval (2005-)

Program Committee member, ISCIS (2003-)
Program Committee member ,IWFHR ‘2002

 

 

Office Hours:

My office hours is drop-in for graduate students. For undergraduates, I set a certain time when I give undergraduate courses.

In addition, I will have an open office hour every last Thursday of the month, from 2-5pm, starting on October 29th.

It is open for everyone (undergraduates, graduates, those who have taken my course or not…).

Page last modified: July 2009