Education

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Ph.D. 2010, Computer Science
Dissertation: Data Transfer Scheduling with Advance Reservation and Provisioning

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Master of Science, Systems Science / GPA: 3.92 (2008)
Thesis: Failure-Awareness and Dynamic Adaptation in Data Scheduling

Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Master of Science, Computer Engineering / GPA: 3.94 (2006)
Thesis: Parallel Tetrahedral Mesh Refinement (PTMR)

Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering / GPA: 3.46 (2000)
ranked 6th among the 65 graduates

Experience

Research Engineer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA
Scientific Data Management Group, Computational Research Division (2009 - )

Research Intern, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Scientific Data Management Group (summer 2009)

Research Intern, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM
Advanced Computing Group (CCS-1) (summer 2008)

Research Assistant, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Center for Computation & Technology (CCT) (2007- 2009)

Teaching Assistant, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Department of Computer Science (CSC) (2005-2007)

Senior R&D Specialist, Fintek, Istanbul, Turkey (2004-2005)

Unix System Administrator, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey (2003-2004)
Academic Computing Distributed Systems, Computer and Information Technology (CIT)

System Design Specialist, Finansbank, Istanbul, Turkey (2000-2003)

JAVA Programmer - Intern, Beko Electronics, Istanbul, Turkey (summer 1999) Programmer - Intern, Turk Telekom, Istanbul, Turkey (summer 1999)