I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University where I work with Katja Hose and I am part of the Center for Data-Intensive systems (DAISY). My research interests in general are querying in semantic web, spatial keyword querying and spatio-temporal data analysis. I got my Ph.D. from the same department in May, 2018 under the supervision of Christian S. Jensen and Simonas Saltenis. During my PhD studies, I worked on the evaluation of ranking functions used for spatial keyword queries. In addition to that I worked on processing spatial keyword clusters queries.
Prior to joining to DAISY, I was a research assistant at the Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU) for 3 years (2011 - 2014). I was part of the team of system administrators and our team was responsible for administration and maintenance of the department servers. I completed my masters in computer engineering under the supervision of Ismail Hakki Toroslu at the same department in 2014. My thesis was the result of a SANTEZ (University Industry Collaboration Project) project with AVEA (one of the largest mobile phone operators in Turkey) and the title of the project was "Predicting Location of Mobile Phone Users". I also completed my BSc in computer engineering at METU in 2011.
Research Interests
- Semantic Web
- Spatial Keyword Querying
- Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis and Mining
- Crowdsourcing
Professional Activities
- Program Committees
- External Reviewer
- Journal Reviewer
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science (May, 2018)
Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Thesis Title: Spatial Keyword Querying: Ranking Evaluation and Efficient Query Processing (PDF)
Supervisors: Christian S. Jensen and Simonas Saltenis - M.Sc. in Computer Engineering (2014)
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Thesis Title: Methods for Location Prediction of Mobile Phone Users (PDF)
Supervisor: Ismail Hakki Toroslu - B.S. in Computer Engineering (2011)
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey