Work / Education History

Work History

2023 Jan – Continue Prof. Dr. Istanbul University, Dept. of Computer Science
2019 – 2023 Founder / CEO OptiWisdom Inc. San Francisco California US: www.bilkav.com
2018 – 2023 Founder / CEO Bilkav Education and Consultancy on Data Science, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence: www.bilkav.com
2020 – Jan 2023 Prof. Antalya Bilim University, Dept. of Computer Science
2019 – 2020 Assoc. Prof. Antalya Bilim University, Dept. of Computer Science
2016 – 2019 Assoc. Prof. Istanbul Sehir University, Dept. of Management Information Systems
2016 – 2017 Visiting Prof. Smith College Dept. of Computer Science, MA, US
2016 – 2016 (left for Sabbatical) Assoc. Prof. Istanbul Sehir University, Dept. of Management Information Systems
2013 – 2016 Assoc. Prof. , Chair Istanbul Medeniyet University, Dept. of Business, Management Information Systems Major Program
2014 – 2015 Asst. Prof. AUM affiliated with Purdue University, Computer Science Department, Kuwait
2012 – 2014 Post-Doc Researcher University of Texas at Dallas – Computer Science Department
2012 – 2013 Information Systems Management, Consultant Istanbul University, Rector’s Office, Enterprise Resource Planning
2011 – 2013 Asst. Prof. İstanbul University – Computer Engineering Department
2011 – 2012 Part Time Lecturer Turkish Air Force Academy, Computer Engineering Department
2011 – 2011 Part Time Lecturer European Vocational School, Computer Programming Department
2010 – 2011 Asst. Prof. Okan University – Computer Engineering Department
2007 – 2011 Part Time Lecturer Yeditepe University – Engineering Faculty, Faculty of Arts and Science
2007 – 2008 Part Time Lecturer Okan University
2006 – 2010 Part Time Lecturer İstanbul Commerce University – Computer Engineering Department, Vacational School
2005 – 2010 Founder, Consultant, Trainer SET Education and Consultancy
2004 – 2007 Owner Restaurant – Sofrayı Cedid
2004 – 2005 Project Officer General Staff, Turkish Military Head Quarters
2000 – 2004 Teaching Assistant Yeditepe University – Computer Science and Engineering Department
2000 – 2010 Founder TEK Computer
1997 – 2000 Trainer Ant Education and Consultancy

Education

2012 – 2013 PostDoc University of Texas at Dallas – Computer Science Datamining, Text Mining, Stream Mining, Natural Language Processing
2005 – 2010 PhD. Yildiz Technical University – Computer Engineering Department Natural Language Processing, Temporal Logics, Search Engines, High Honor Degree
2002 – 2004 MA. in Science Technology and Society Istanbul Technical University, Institute of Social Sciences http://www.shedai.net/sts/ E-government, E-Democracy
2000 – 2003 MSc. in Computer Science Yeditepe University, Institute of Science and Engineering Natural Language Processing, LISP and lambda calculus, High Honor Degree
1996 – 2000 BSc. in Computer Science and Engineering (Ranked First in Dept.) Yeditepe University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Ranked First in the Department and Second in the Faculty
1993 – 1996 Beylerbeyi Lisesi Science and Math Track Ranked First
1990 – 1993 Beylerbeyi Ortaokulu
1985 – 1990 Beylerbeyi İlk Okulu Started at Lütfi Erçin İlkokulu and Transfered at 4th Year Graduated with 5 over 5 full grade.

Projects

2018 – 2019 ETS Travel Agency Data Science and Data Mining (Ranking and Scoring for Travel Agencies) Completed
2017 – 2019 Affilaited Creditors Inc. Data Science and Data Mining (Ranking and Scoring for Collector Companies) Completed
2017- 2019 Akil YMM Artificial Intelligence for web based e-accounting auditing Completed
2016- 2017 Vodafone Technology Turkey ( Data Science and Data Mining Courses (content prepared at 2016 and courses delivered at January 2017) Completed
2016- .-2016 Kontra Digital Services Developing and Optimizing advertisement recommendation system for mobile users. OnGoing
2016- 2016 Alliance Insurance System, Big data and data mining project with R and Hadoop Completed
2015-2015 Havelsan Data Mining Project via Rapid Miner Supported by Havelsan, Completed
2015 – 2016 Developing a decision support system for e-trade platform to collect peripheral data and process sentimental analysis on big data environment (Spark + MLLib and Mahout) Supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) – 1501 in collaboration with Çiçek Sepeti, Project No. 3150106

Completed

2015 – 2015 TUBITAK TUSSIDE (Gebze) Big Data Training Project Supported by Turkish National Science Foundation TUSSIDE, Completed
2015 – 2015 TUBITAK TUSSIDE Database Training Project Supported by Turkish National Science Foundation TUSSIDE, Completed
2015 – 2016 Social Media Campaign Supported by the Turkish Ministry of Youth and Sports, Completed
2013 -2016 Social Web Mining and Business Intelligence Supported by Istanbul Medeniyet University, Research Projects Department under project number SBA-2014-438, Completed
2013 – 2014 Web based Reputation Index Supported by Istanbul Medeniyet University, Research Projects Department under project number SUY-2013-450, Completed
2013 The Impact of Employment Web Sites’ Traffic on Unemployment: A Cross Country Comparison Supported by Istanbul Medeniyet University, Research Projects Department under project number SUY-2013-437, Completed
2012 – 2013 Stream Mining Analysis on Blogs and Web Comments University of Texas at Dallas, computer science department, Supported by Turkish Higher Education Council, Post-Doc research support, Completed
2013 Sentimental Analysis on Streaming Blogs and Twitter at University of Texas at Dallas, computer science department, Supported by Supported by Turkish Higher Education Council Post-Doc research support, Completed
2012 – 2013 Economy news and stock market correlation for Turkey at University of Texas at Dallas, computer science department, Supported by Supported by Turkish Higher Education Council Post-Doc research support, Completed
2012 – 2013 Data Mining Applications on Engineering Problems Supported by Istanbul University Research Project Department under project number YADOP 27254, Completed
2012 – 2013 Solving Statistical Optimisation Problems via Artificial Intelligence Supported by Istanbul University Research Project Department under project number UDP 24502, Completed
2012 – 2012 Post Doctoral Research Supported by Higher Education Council of Turkey (YÖK) , Completed
2012 – 2012 Estimation of Elastic Modulus of Intact Rocks by Artificial Neural Network Supported by Istanbul University Research Project Department under project number BYP 23343, Completed
2011 – 2012 Solving Statistical Optimisation Problems via Artificial Intelligence Supported by Istanbul University Research Project Department under project number YADOP 16728, Completed
2006 – 2008 LcWaikiki – TEMA Tekstil Training and Testing the professional qualification of information technology department personal, Completed
2005 Payment Tracking and Budget Control Software Eksioglu Insaat, Completed
2005 – 2010 Temporal Logic Modelling for Turkish Natural Language Department of Computer Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Completed
2005 – 2007 Turkish Speaking Search Engine (TuSSE) PhD. Research Alterantive in Yildiz Technical Univeristy, Department of Computer Engineeringhttp://www.shedai.net/tusse/
2003 – 2004 Social Impacts of Egovernment in Turkey Istanbul Technical University, Institute of Social Sciences http://www.shedai.net/e-devlet/egov.htm
2002 – 2004 Student Registration System Yeditepe University, department of Computer Science and Engineering
2002 – 2003 TuJA – Turkish Natural Language to JAVA Yeditepe University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering http://www.shedai.net/~tuja/
2000 – 2004 Turkish Speaking Assistant TuSA Yeditepe University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Artificial Intelligence Lab. http://www.shedai.net/tusa/

 
MSc. Presentations / Submissions (2000 – 2003)

MA. Presentations (2002 – 2004)

PhD. Course Projects (2005 – 2007)

Reports / Codes (1998 – 2002)

Reports Codes
Mutli Threaded Architectures
Cache Becnhmarking coda.c
Computer Graphics-Rotate, translate and Scaling Codes
Web Based Shop Creator Codes of WeBaSC
TCP vs. PVM