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@ Bilkent University

Buğra Gedik, Ph.D. (boora ghedi’c)
Department of Computer Engineering,
İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University

2012-2006: Research Staff Member, High Performance Streaming Systems, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
2006-2001: Ph.D., Computer Science, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
2001-1997: B.S., Computer Science, Department of Computer Engineering and Information Science, Bilkent University

✩ 2013 IBM Faculty Award
✏ VLDBJ Paper, Partitioning Functions for Stateful Data Parallelism in Stream Processing
✩ IEEE ICWS best paper award, SLIM: A Scalable Location-Sensitive Information Monitoring Service
✏ IEEE TC paper, Discriminative Fine-Grained Mixing for Adaptive Compression of Data Streams
✏ VLDB 2013 paper, Streaming Algorithms for k-core Decomposition
✏ IEEE TPDS paper, Auto-pipelining for Data Stream Processing
⚖ Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
✑ Book, now available for pre-order: Fundamentals of Stream Processing

I do research in data-intensive distributed systems. You can find my Google Scholar page here. I have an h-index of 23. You can see my selected publications here and my cv here.

Buğra Gedik is currently a faculty in the Computer Engineering Department, Bilkent University, Turkey. Prior to that he was as a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. His research interests are in distributed data-intensive systems with a particular focus on stream computing. In the past, he served as the Chief Architect for IBM's InfoSphere Streams product. He is the co-inventor of the SPL and the SPADE stream processing languages. He is the co-recipient of the IEEE ICDCS 2003, IEEE DSN 2011, ACM DEBS 2011 and 2012, and IEEE ICWS 2013 best paper awards. He is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing journal. He served as the co-PC chair for the ACM DEBS 2009 and IEEE CollaborateCom 2007 conferences. He served on the program committees of numerous conferences, including IEEE ICDCS, VLDB, ACM SIGMOD, IEEE ICDE, and EDBT. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles in the areas of distributed computing and data management and is the co-author of the book "Fundamentals of Stream Processing: Application Design, Systems, and Analytics". He has applied for over 30 patents, most of them related to his work on streaming technologies. He was named an IBM Master Inventor and is the recipient of an IBM Corporate Award for his work in the System S project. The project has been named as one of IBM's Icons of Progress for the Centennial and Dr. Gedik has been named as one of the three key contributors for the project (link). After joining Bilkent, Dr. Gedik has received the 2013 BAGEP Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the National Science Academy Association (Bilim Akademisi Derneği) of Turkey. He has also received an IBM Faculty Award in 2013. He has obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA and prior to that, his B.S. degree in Computer Engineering and Information Science from Bilkent University, Turkey.