EVRIM ACAR ATAMAN

Sandia National Laboratories

P.O. Box 969, M.S. 9159

Livermore, CA 94551

www: www.cs.rpi.edu/~acare

RESEARCH AREA

• Data mining, mathematical modeling, time series analysis, bioinformatics.
• In particular, linear, nonlinear and multi-linear factor models, tensor decompositions/multiway data analysis and applications of tensor decompositions, e.g., multiway analysis of epileptic EEG signals.

EDUCATION

• PhD, Computer Science, GPA: 3.97/4.00
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
  May, 2008
• M.S., Computer Science, GPA: 4.00/4.00
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
  December, 2006
• BS, Computer Engineering, GPA: 3.71/4.00
  Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
  July, 2003

RESEARCH AND WORK EXPERIENCE

• August, 2003 - May, 2008 : Research Assistant, Computer Science Department
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

          - Neuroscience: Multiway Analysis of epileptic EEG signals

          - Social Network Analysis: Modeling and Multiway analysis of chatroom communications

• Summer, 2006 & 2007: Visiting Researcher, Faculty of Life Sciences
  Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark

          - Theoretical and practical aspects of multiway data analysis

          - Clustering and visualization on three-way datasets

• 2003 - 2005: Teaching Assistant, Computer Science Department
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

          - Database Systems (using SQL*Plus, Pro*C)

          - Introduction to Programming in C++ using .NET

          - Introduction to Computer Programming in VB using .NET

• 2002 - 2003:Undergraduate Researcher, Computer Networks Lab.
  Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

          - Implementation of a mobile Infostation client on PDAs running WinCE (using embedded

            C++).

          - Wireless Video Streaming and Evaluation of Streaming Tools on PDAs.

• Summer, 2002: Software Developer (Intern), CITIBANK
  Istanbul, Turkey

           - Hands on experience in database development using ASP and MS Access.

• Summer, 2001: Software Developer (Intern), BILGI GROUP
  Ankara, Turkey

          -  Wireless application development on handheld devices running PALMOS.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Travel Fellowship by the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union to attend ISMB/ECCB 2007, Vienna, Austria.
• SIAM Travel Award to attend ICIAM 2007, Zurich, Switzerland.
• FOOD Graduate School Research Grant to work in the Chemometrics group in KVL, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006.
• NFS Participant and Travel Grant to attend IPAM Graduate Summer School on Intelligent Extraction of Information from Graphs and High Dimensional Data, UCLA, CA, 2005.
• High-Honor Student, Ranked 4, Computer Engineering Department, Class of 2003, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2003.
• High-Honor Award, Ranked 2, Class of 1998, TED Ankara College, Ankara, Turkey, 1998.
• Three-year Scholarship, Ranked 1, Class of 1995, TED Ankara College, Ankara, Turkey, 1995.

PUBLICATIONS

       Journals Papers

• Evrim Acar and Bulent Yener, Unsupervised Multiway Data Analysis: A Literature Survey, To Appear in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2008.

• R. Bro, E. Acar, T. G. Kolda, Resolving the Sign Ambiguity in the Singular Value Decomposition, Journal of Chemometrics, 22(2): 135-140, 2008.

• Evrim Acar, Rasmus Bro and Bonnie Schmidt, New Exploratory Clustering Tool, Journal of Chemometrics, 22(1): 91-100, 2008.

• E. Acar, C. A. Bingol, H. Bingol, R. Bro and B.Yener, Multiway Analysis of Epilepsy Tensors,  Bioinformatics, 23(13): i10-i18, 2007.
• K. P. Bennett, C. Bergeron, E. Acar, R. F. Klees, S. L. Vandenberg, B. Yener and G. E. Plopper, Proteomics reveals multiple routes to the osteogenic phenotype in mesenchymal stem cells, BMC Genomics, 8(1): 380, 2007.

      Conference Proceedings

• Evrim Acar, Canan A. Bingol, Haluk Bingol, Rasmus Bro and Bulent Yener, Seizure Recognition on Epilepsy Feature Tensor, In proceedings of the 29th International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August, 2007.
• Evrim Acar, Canan A. Bingol, Haluk Bingol and Bulent Yener, Computational Analysis of Epileptic Focus Localization, In proceedings of the 4th International Conference of IASTED on Biomedical Engineering, February, 2006.

• Evrim Acar, S. A. Çamtepe and B. Yener, Collective Sampling and Analysis of High-order

  Tensors for Chatroom Communications, In proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligence and

  Security Informatics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3975, pp. 213-224, 2006.

• Evrim Acar, S. A. Çamtepe, M. Krishnamoorthy and B. Yener, Modeling and Multiway Analysis of Chatroom Tensors, In proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligence and Security Informatics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.  3495, pp. 256-268, 2005.