Yücel SAYGIN
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Sabanci University
Orhanli, 34956, Tuzla, Istanbul, TURKEY
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Privacy preserving data mining
- Ubiquitous knowledge discovery
- Spatio-temporal data mining
ACADEMIC RECORD
- September 2001 - : Sabanci University, Istanbul-Turkey,
Faculty
of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty Member
- Ph.D. August 2001, Department
of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University,
Ankara-Turkey,
- August 1996 - January 1999, August 2000- August 2001 : Bilkent University,
Ankara-Turkey,
Department
of Computer Engineering, Research/ Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. August 2001
- February 1999 - July 2000: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana-USA,
Computer
Science Department, Indiana Center for Database Systems, Visiting
Scholar
- 1994-1996: Bilkent University, Ankara-Turkey.
Department
of Computer Engineering, M.S. September 1996
- 1990 - 1994: Bilkent University, Ankara-Turkey
Department
of Computer Engineering, B.S. June 1994
PUBLICATIONS
Theses
- Yucel Saygin. Implementation of Nested Transactions for
Concurrent Rule Execution in Active Databases. Bilkent University,
Department of Computer Engineering, M.S. Thesis, Ankara, 1996.
- Yucel Saygin. Active and Mobile Data Management Through
Event History Mining. Bilkent University, Department of Computer
Engineering, Ph.D. Thesis, Ankara, 2001.
Book Chapters
- Yucel Saygin. Hoarding in Mobile Computing Environments.
To appear in Handbook of Mobile Computing. CRC Press.
- Yucel Saygin, Yuntong Wang, Arnolg Reisman. A Game
Theoretic Approach to Value Information in Data Mining. Icm
Millennium Lectures on Games, Springer Verlag, August 2003.
Book Review
- Adnan Yazici & Roy George. Fuzzy Database Modeling.
Springer-Verlag, 1999. Reviewed in Journal of Database Management Vol.9
No.4, 1998.
Journal Papers
- Yucel Saygin, Arnold Reisman, YunTong Wang. Value Of
Information Gained from Data Mining in the Context of Information
Sharing. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (to appear).
- Vassilios S. Verykios, Elisa Bertino, Loredana Parasiliti,
Igor Nai Favino, Yucel Saygin, Yannis Theodoridis. State-of-the-Art
in Privacy Preserving Data Mining. Sigmod Record Vol 33, No 1,
2004.
- Vassilios S. Verykios, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Elisa Bertino,
Yucel Saygin, Elena Dasseni. Association Rule Hiding. IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Vol 16 No 4, 2004 .
- Yucel Saygin, Vassilios S. Verykios, Chris Clifton. Using
Unknowns to Prevent Discovery of Association Rules. SIGMOD Record
Vol. 30 No. 4 December 2001.
- Yucel Saygin, Ozgur Ulusoy. Automated Construction of
Fuzzy Event Sets and Its Application to Active Databases. IEEE
Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Vol.9 No.3, 2001.
- Yucel Saygin, Ozgur Ulusoy. Exploiting Data Mining
Techniques for Broadcasting Data in Mobile Computing Environments.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Vol 14, No 6, 2002.
- Yucel Saygin, Ozgur Ulusoy, Adnan Yazici. Dealing with
Fuzziness in Active Mobile Database Systems. Information Sciences,
vol.120 No.1-4, 1999
- Yucel Saygin, Ozgur Ulusoy, Sharma Chakravarthy. Concurrent
Rule Execution in Active Databases. Information Systems, vol.23
No.1, 1998.
Refereed Conference and Workshop Papers
- Stanley Oliveira, Osmar Zaiane, Yucel Saygin. Secure
Association Rule Sharing. Proceedings of the 8th Pacific-Asia
Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. May, 2004, Sydney,
Australia.
- Yucel Saygin, Arnold Reisman, YunTong Wang. A Game
Theoretic Approach to Value Information in Data Mining. In: H. Gao,
L. A. Petrosjan, F. Shao, J. Xu, D. W. K. Yeung, V. V. Zakharov, N. A.
Zenkevich, S. Zhang, and T. Zhang (eds.), Proceedings of International
Congress of Mathematicians, Game Theory and Applications Satellite
Conference, August 14-17, 2002, Qingdao, China, pp. 659-678.
- Yucel Saygin, Vassilios S. Verykios, Ahmed Elmagarmid. Privacy
Preserving Association Rule Mining. 9th International Conference
and Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'98),
Lecture Notes in computer Science, Springer Verlag. To appear in the
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Research Issues in
Data Engineering (RIDE'2002), IEEE Computer Society Press.
- Yucel Saygin, Ozgur Ulusoy, Ahmed Elmagarmid. Association
Rules For Supporting Hoarding in Mobile Computing Environments.
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Research Issues in
Data Engineering (RIDE'2000), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 28-37.
- Yucel Saygin, Ozgur Ulusoy. Involving Fuzzy Concepts in
Active Mobile Databases. Proceedings of the 9th International
Conference and Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
(DEXA'98), Lecture Notes in computer Science (Springer Verlag), 1998.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
- TUBITAK, NATO A-2 Scholarship for visiting Purdue
University for 5 months.
- Visiting Scholar Grant from Purdue University, Indiana
Center for Database Systems for 10 months.
- Scholarship from Bilkent University for graduate study as a
teaching/research assistant in the Computer Engineering Department,
1994-2001, including tuition, monthly stipend, accommodation,
transportation and health expenses.
- Scholarship from Bilkent University for undergraduate
study, 1990-1994, including tuition and monthly stipend.
- Rank of 12 in the First Part of the University Entrance
Exam among more than one million candidates in 1989.
- Technical and Scientific Research Council of Turkey
(TUBITAK) second prize in Chemistry in year 1989.
- Technical and Scientific Research Council of Turkey
(TUBITAK) second prize in Mathematics in year 1989.
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