Mert ÖZARAR

mert.ozarar@turktrust.com.tr

mert.ozarar@gmail.com

www.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~ozarar

Contact Info:

28.Cadde 352.Sokak Bilim Sitesi No: 4/4

Çiğdem Mah. 06530 Ankara, Turkey

(+90 533) 776 46 56

EDUCATION

Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Engineering        (09/2003 – present)

CGPA : 3,64 / 4.00 (High Honour)

            Thesis Proposal: “Privacy Preservation via Secure Multiparty Computation”

Master of Science in Cryptography                    (09/2002 – 06/2004)

CGPA : 3.75 / 4.00 (High Honour)            Rank: 1 / ~10

Submitted completion project titled “BooleCrypt:  A Library for Evaluation of Boolean Function Characteristics”

Master of Science in Computer Engineering      (02/2002 – 08/2003)

CGPA : 4.00 / 4.00 (High Honour)            Rank: 1 / ~50

Submitted thesis titled “Prediction of Protein Subcellular Localization Based on Primary Sequence Data”

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering   (09/1998 – 01/2002)

CGPA : 3.67 / 4.00 (High Honour)            Rank: 5 / ~110

Submitted senior project titled “Enhancement of Multi-Level Grid File Structure for Fuzzy-Spatial Querying”

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics                   (09/1996 – 01/2001)

CGPA : 3.78 / 4.00 (High Honour)            Rank: 2 / ~90

TED Ankara College, Ankara, Turkey                (09/1985 – 01/1996)

EXPERIENCE

TürkTrust, Inc., Ankara, Turkey

Computer Senior Engineer (09/2004 – present)

- Developed software related for a Certification Authority Lifecycle

Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey

Teaching Assistant (09/2001 – 09/2004)

- Assisted various courses taught at Department of Computer Engineering

Technical University Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany

Visiting Researcher (06/2002 – 07/2002)

- Research on derivative free and continuous optimization schemas (EU Project sponsored by Volkswagen AG)

Konrad Zuse Institute (ZIB), Berlin, Germany

Engineering Intern (07/2002 – 09/2002)

- Responsible for the implementation of texture based methods for vector field visualization and imaging

- Member of organizing team of AMCW Conference

IBM Inc., Ankara, Turkey

Engineering Intern (06/2001 – 08/2001)

- Passed qualifying exam, worked on Java Applets and Domino Server

PUBLICATIONS

1. ”Enhancement of Multi-Level Grid File Structure for Fuzzy-Spatial Querying”, Technical Report, Computer Eng. Dept., METU, February 2002

2. ”Prediction of Protein Subcellular Localization Based on Primary Sequence Data”, Lecture Notes on Computer Science 2869, pp 611-619, November 2003

3. ”Birincil Dizi Veri Temelli Protein Hücre İçi Yer Belirleme Tahmini”, Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Konferansı, Kuşadası, Turkey, April 2004

4. ”BooleCrypt: Boole Tipi Fonksiyon Özelliklerini Değerlendirme Amaçlı bir Yazılım Kütüphanesi”, Abant Kriptografi Günleri, Bolu, Turkey, July 2004

HONOURS AND ACTIVITIES

· Qualified to participate European Mathematics League organized by European Council of International Schools, 1996

· Elected to Dean’s list several times by METU, 1997-2001

· Registered to Double Major Program, 1998

· Qualified to participate Summer Academy on Numerical Methods in Engineering organized by University of Erlangen, Germany, 1999

· Internship and Fellowship from Zuse Institute Berlin, 2001

· Ranked 71^st among circa 60.000 in Turkish Graduate Study Exam, 2001

· Coordinator in CEBİT-02 representing METU, 2002

SKILLS

Paradigms: Embedded Real-Time Programming, Functional Programming, Imperative Programming, Logic Programming, Parallel Programming, UML Modeling

Programming Languages: C, (Visual) C++, MFC, HTML, Java, J2EE, Lisp, Matlab, ML, Pascal, Perl, Php, Prolog, Scheme, SPIM, Turbo Assembly, XML

Operating Systems:  Dos, Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris, UNIX, Windows

Development Tools:, Borland C/J Builder, Eclipse, MS Visual Studio, SunONE Studio

Package Programs: IBM Approach, Domino Server, Freelance Graphics, Lotus, MS Office

Specialized Tools: Amira2000, Apache, bash scripting, Concurrent Pascal, Derive, Isetl, Maple, Mathematica, SomPak, SwissKnife, Tcl/Tk, TecPlot

Libraries: Glut, Fastest, OpenGL, TCP/IP Berkeley Sockets

Database Servers: MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle 10g

ORM Framework: Ant, Hbm2java, Hibernate, Middlegen, XDoclet

Natural Languages: Turkish (Native), English (Fluent), German (Fair)

REFERENCES

• Peter Deuflhard,             Prof. Dr. rer. nat.

- Chairman of ZIB, Berlin, Germany            (deuflhard@zib.de)

• Michael Schaefer,          Prof. Dr. rer. nat.

- Head of FNB, Darmstadt, Germany (schaefer@fnb.tu-darmstadt.de)

• Fatoş Yarman Vural,      Prof. Dr.           

- METU President Consultant                    (vural@ceng.metu.edu.tr)

• Adnan Yazici,                Prof. Dr.

- Dept. of Computer Engineering, METU     (yazici@ceng.metu.edu.tr)