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SEFA KILIÇ
Middle East Technical University, Department of Computer Engineering
Ankara, TURKEY
http://www.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~sefa

sefa@ceng.metu.edu.tr

machine learning, pattern recognition, data mining, bioinformatics, natural language processing.

Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey [Fall 2010 - current]
M.Sc. candidate at Dept. of Computer Engineering
Expected Graduation: June 2011
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey [Fall 2009 - Spring 2010]
M.Sc. program at Dept. of Computer Engineering
Current GPA: 3.81/4.0, program terminated by own decision.
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
B.Sc. Dept. of Computer Engineering [2009]
CGPA: 3.20/4.0
Zonguldak Science High School, Zonguldak, Turkey [2004]

Project researcher, Ontology Enhanced Web Usage Mining [Fall 2010 - current]
Project supported by TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey).
Teaching assistant, Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey [Fall 2010 - current].
- CENG111 Introduction to Computer Engineering Concepts [Fall 2010]
Teaching assistant, Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey [Fall 2009 - present]
- CS202 Fundamental Structures of Computer Science II [Summer 2010]
- CS201 Fundamental Structures of Computer Science I [Spring 2010]
- CS223 Digital Design [Fall 2009]
- CS315 Programming Languages [Fall 2009]
Student Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey [Spring 2009]
- CENG230 Introduction to C Programming [Spring 2009]
Intern, Logo Business Solutions, Ankara, Turkey [Summer 2008]
- Contribution to the unit testing of the project (Unity on Demand)
- Test scripts with Java BeanShell
Intern, IBTECH International Business Technologies, Kocaeli, Turkey [Summer 2007]
- Developed Linux shell scripts.

Partitional clustering experiments on document datasets. "Data Mining" course project. Some criterion functions for document clustering were evaluated and compared. Used CLUTO, data clustering software. [Fall 2009]
Automatic text summarization system for Turkish using latent semantic analysis. "Natural Language processing" course project. Implemented using Java. [Fall 2009]
YGAlib, senior project [Fall 2008-Spring 2009]
- Converting GAlib (Genetic Algorithm Library) to parallel library to work on a cluster
- Used C++, MPI
Pirates of CENG, "Introduction to Computer Graphics" course project [Fall 2008]
- 3D, turn-based, two player game
- Used C++, OpenGL, GLUT, Object3DS

Middle East Technical University High Honor Roll for 2 semesters
Middle East Technical University Honor Roll for 1 semester
Computer Graphics course, Project Completion Award [Fall 2008]
Certificate for participation to Collaborative Learning Project, University of North Texas [Fall 2008]
415th among 1.7 million participants in University Entrance Exam (ÖSS) [2004]

Programming skills: C, C++, Java, MATLAB, also familiar with R, Perl, Python Haskell, Scheme, Prolog, HTML/CSS, SQL, PIC Assembly
Tools/Libraries: OpenGL, MPI, Weka, LaTex, SVN, Doxygen
Programming experience on GNU/Linux environment