Resume

Education
  University of Edinburgh
PhD. Centre for Cognitive Science, 1998
Thesis: A Form-Meaning Interface for Turkish.
Edinburgh/Scotland
University of Edinburgh
MSc. Centre for Cognitive Science, 1994
Thesis: Information Packaging in Turkish
Edinburgh/Scotland
Middle East Technical University
BSc. Department of Computer Engineering, 1992
Ankara/Turkey
Industrial Experience
ISCO Inc.
(Textile Company)
Software Engineer. 1992-93.
Developed Application Programs.
Bursa/Turkey
Microwave Electronic Systems Inc.
(MIKES)(Defence Industry)
Software Engineer, Software Test and Quality Groups Leader, 1999-2000.
Developed radar-detection software. Prepared a Software Engineering Manual.
Managed Software Test and Quality Assurance activities.
Ankara/Turkey
TUNKA Inc.
(Software Company)
Project Manager, 2000.
Designed and led a WEB-based translation project (which was chosen one of the best computing projects in Turkey in 2000).
Ankara/Turkey
Teaching Experience
Boğaziçi University,
Department of Western Languages & Literatures         
Istanbul/Turkey
Designed and taught undergraduate courses:
  (Formal) Semantics

 
Trakya University,
Department of Computer Engineering
Edirne/Turkey
Designed and taught undergraduate courses:
  Introduction to Computer Science,
Data-Processing,
Programming Languages,
Object-Oriented Programming,
Artificial Intelligence and Logic Programming,
Formal Languages and Abstract State Machines,
and graduate courses:
Logic,
Logic Programming,
Theoretical Linguistics-I (Syntax),
Theoretical Linguistics-II (Semantics),
Computational Linguistics-I (Syntax),
Computational Linguistic-II (Semantics).
Managed an officially sponsored project:
Managed and designed an NLP-based project for children with autism
Supervised/supervising undergraduate student projects:
A Logic-Circuit Analyzer with AI Techniques,
A Natural Language Interface for SQL,
A Web-based Information Retrieval System using NLP
A text-to-speech system with a model of stress patterns for Turkish
A phoneme-based speech-to-text system for Turkish
MSc theses:
  An Interactive System for Solving Arithmetic Problems Stated in Turkish
  An Analyzer for Turkish Sentences Encoding Actions about Coloured Shapes
  A System for Machine Translation between Turkish and Slavonic Languages
  A speech-to-text system for Turkish based on a Hidden Markov Model
  A System for Machine Translation between Turkish and English
  Designing and developing a system to visually represent the semantic content of sentences
PhD theses:
  Automatic Analysis of Anaphoric Relations in Turkish
  Word Sense Disambiguation as an Integrated Module of a Machine Translation System between Turkish and English
  Developing AI-based Educational Tools for Children with Mental Retardation
  A Web-based Learning System Equipped with an Information Retrieval Module
Languages
English (advanced), French (advanced), Turkish (native).
Activities
Head of the Division of Computer Sciences, TU,
Member of the executive board of Physics and Applied Mathematics Research Center, TU
Publications