Thesis Supervised by Cevdet Aykanat
Currently Supervised Research Assistants
Tayfun Kucukyilmaz
PhD (09/05 - Present) Title: Parallel Inversion Techniques for Text Retrieval
Ata Turk
MSc (09/02 - 09/04) Title: Design & Implementation of an Efficient Parallel Crawler
PhD (09/04 - Present) Title: Index Partitioning & Replication Techniques along with Query Scheduling in Parallel Information Retrieval
Eray Ozkural
MSc (10/99 - 12/01): Efficient Parallel Frequency Mining Based on a Novel Top-Down Partitioning Scheme for Transactional Data
PhD (09/04 - Present) Title: Models and Methods for Parallel Data Mining Applications
Ertugrul Kartal Tabak
PhD (09/06 - Present) Title: Models and Methods for Distributed Web Crawling
Aylin Tokuc
MSc (09/06 - 09/08) Title: Performance comparison of query evaluation techniques in parallel text retrieval.
PhD (09/08 - Present) Title: TBD
Kadir Akbudak
MSc (09/07 - Present) Title: Sparse-Matrix Reordering Techniques for Cache-Oblivious Matrix-Vector Multiplies
Enver Kayaaslan
MSc (09/07 - Present) Title: Hypergraph-partitioning-based fill-reducing ordering of sparse and symmetric matrices.
Reha Oguz Selvitopi
MSc (09/08 - Present) Title: TBD
Volkan Yazici
MSc (09/08 - Present) Title: TBD
Previously Supervised Research Assistants
Berkant Barla Cambazoglu
MSc (01/9842/99): Adaptive Decomposition and Remapping Models for Minimizing Volume of Communication in Sort-First Parallel Volume Rendering
PhD (01/00- Present) Title: Models and algorithms for parallel text retrieval.
Bora Ucar
MSc (09/97-09/99): Partitioning Sparse Rectangular Matrices for Parallel Computing of AAT x
PhD (10/00 - 09/2005) Title: Parallel sparse matrix-vector multiplies and iterative solvers
Engin Demir
PhD (01/02 - 01/09) Title: Storage and Access Schemes for Aggregate Query Processing on Road Networks
Erkan Okuyan
MSc (09/06 - 01/09) Title: Exploiting Replicated Data for Communication Load Balancing in Image-Space Parallel Direct Volume Rendering of Unstructured Grids
Izzet Cagri Baykan
MSc (09/05 - 09/08) Title: Inverted Index Compression Based on Term and Document Identifier Reassignment
Kamer Kaya
MSc (09/02 - 08/04) Title: Iterative-improvement-based heuristics for adaptive scheduling of tasks-sharing files on heterogeneous master-slave environments
Evren Karaca
MSc (09/04 - 09/06) Title: Parpatoh : A 2D-parallel hypergraph partitioning tool.
Ali Cevahir
MSc (09/04 - 09/06) Title: Web-Site-Based Partitioning Techniques for Efficient Parallelization of the PageRank Computation
Ozlem Gur
MSc (09/06 - 09/08) Title: Parallel text retrieval on temporally versioned document collections.
Tahir Malas
MSc (10/01 - 01/04) Title: Parallel Image Restoration
Aytul Catal
MSc (09/01 - 09/03) Title: Parallel Text retrieval on PC Clusters
Bulent Ozel
MSc (09/99 - 09/01) Title: Clustering based approach for efficient AATX computations.
M. Mustafa Ozdal
MSc (10/99-07/01): Minimizing Communication Latencies in Conjugate Gradient Type Parallel Iterative Solvers
Mehmet Koyuturk
MSc (10/98-08/00): Hypergraph Based Declustering for Multi-Disk Databases
Umit V. Catalyurek
MSc (10/92-09/94 ): Circuit Partitioning Based on Minimum Degree Ordering
PhD (11/9441/99): Hypergraph Models for Sparse Matrix Partitioning and Reordering
Murat Ikinci
MSc (10/96-06/98): Multilevel Heuristics for Task Assignment in Distributed Systems
Ferit Findik
MSc (10/9540/97): Parallel Direct Volume Rendering of Unstructured Grids Based on Object-Space Decomposition
Huseyin Kutluca
MSc (10/95-08/97): Image-Space Decomposition Algorithms for Sort-First Parallel Volume Rendering of Unstructured Grids'
Hakan Berk
MSc (10/95-09/97): Fast Direct Volume Rendering of Unstructured Grids
Tahsin Kurc
MSc (10/8941/91): Parallel Maze Routing Algorithms on a Hypercube Multicomputer
PhD (02/92-01/97): Parallel Rendering Algorithms for Distributed-Memory Architectures
Ali Pinar
MSc (10/94-08/96): Decomposing Linear Programs for Parallel Solution
Egemen Tanin
MSc (10/93-07/95): Comparison of Image-Space Subdivision Algorithms for Parallel Volume Rendering
Ismail Haritaoglu
MSc (10/92-09/94): Mapping and FPGA Global Routing using Mean Field Annealing
Huseyin Simitci
MSc (10/92-07/94): Parallelization of an Interior Point Algorithm for Linear Programming
Ali Dasdan
MSc (10/91-09/93): Graph and Hypergraph Partitioning
Tolga Capin
MSc (10/91-09/93): Parallel Processing for Progressive Refinement Radiosity
Ridwan Tahboub
MSc (10/90-01/93): VLSI Circuit Partitioning for Simulation
Argun Dervis
MSc (10/89-04/92): Parallel Digital Signal Processing for Hypercube Multicomputers
Tevfik Bultan
MSc (10/89-01/92): Mapping and Circuit Partitioning Based on Mean Field Annealing
Cavit Aydın
MSc (10/89-07/91): Exploiting an Alternative Labeling for Efficient Hypercube Algorithms