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 34956 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Research

PUBLICATIONS

CS404

CS512

CS516

CS581

Proj102

  Biometrics Group

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  OPINION MINING GROUP

 

 

 

Research: 

I work in the general area of Pattern Recognition & Computer Vision, in particular biometrics (signature, fingerprint, voice, biometric privacy and security); document analysis and retrieval (OCR, online and offline handwriting recognition, mathematical expression recognition); machine learning (ECOC, bias/variance analysis of committees); and bioinformatics (not very active in this area, though I am interested).

Education:

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

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

Galatasaray High-School, Istanbul, Turkey (1983).

Experience:

Fall 2000 – to present: 

Assoc. Professor, Sabanci University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Computer Science and Engineering program.

2008

Sabbatical at Michigan State University, USA

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 - Document segmentation and recognition problem

1994-1996: 

Xerox Imaging Systems, MA, USA (ScanSoft)

Researcher - Automatic document segmentation and benchmarking

Fall 1993 - 1994: 

Postdoctoral Researcher, Rockefeller University, NY, USA

Statistical approaches to understanding the human visual system

Teaching (all active courses are on the web – see links above):

Undergraduate :

CS 204 – Advanced Programming (2002/03/04/05/06/07/-/09/10S)      

CS 404 - Artificial Intelligence (2002/03/04/05/06/07/-/-/10F/11F)

Project 102 (Fall terms)

EECS 491 - Design Project (Fall terms)          

Graduate

CS 581 – Special Topics – Opinion Mining (2011S w/ Yücel Saygın and Dilek Tapucu)

CS 516 - Biometrics (2010S,2011F)

CS 512 – Machine Learning (2007S,2009F,2010F,2011F)

CS 515 - Neural Networks (2002S)         

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

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

 

Awards and Honors: 

2011    4th ranking institution in ImageCLEF2011 – Plant Identification Task (in overall ranking, collaboration with Okan University).

2011    Winner of the ESRA2011 Online Signature Evaluation Campaign on Task1-DS3

2011    Winner of the SigComp2011 Offline Signature Verification (on Chinese database; 3rd place in Dutch database)

2010    Top Cited Article Award – Pattern Recognition Letters, 2005-2010 period

2010    Winner of the 4NSIGCOMP2010 Forensic Signature Verification

2008    Tübitak Grant  for Sabbatical - 2019

2006     Alper Atalay Best Student Paper Award, IEEE SIU 2006.

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: 

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

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

 

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

Program Committee member, ISCIS (2003-)
Program Committee member, SIU (2006-)

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

Program Committee member, ICPR (2010)
Program Committee member, DAS (2010)

Program Committee member, ICFHR (2008)

Program Committee member, IWFHR (2002)

 

 

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