Educational Background

2005 - 2011 Ph.D. in Information Technologies Ege University Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Izmir, TURKEY

Graduate Dissertation: Index Term Weighting based on Statistical Independence for Information Retrieval -IR- Systems

  • Introducing a new statistical model for term weighting, named as Divergince From Independence -DFI- model

  • Introducing new weighting functions based on Luhn's claim on the relation between the term frequency & the term importance

  • Active participations in TREC-2009 and TREC-2010 have been carried out with the IR system which was developed around the DFI concept

  • The performances of the proposed methods in retrieval show that these apporaches can be efficiently used to weight the index terms

  • Thesis (written in Turkish) can be found in here

  • 2001 - 2005 M.Sc. in Information Technologies Ege University Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Izmir, TURKEY

    Graduate Thesis: A Study on Decomposition Based Stable Merging Algorithms

  • Introducing an improved recursive and stable decompositon based merging algorithm and its in-place version

  • Two versions of the improved algorithm adapted for the shared memory parallel architectures are developed & implemented

  • Speed-ups & efficiencies of the presented algorithms in serial & parallel environments are analyzed

  • Thesis (written in Turkish) can be found in here

  • 1995 - 2000 B.Sc. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering METU Electrical & Electronics Engineering Department, Ankara, Turkey

    1992 - 1995 High School Manisa Fatih Anatolian High School, Manisa, Turkey