CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Name               Funda DURUPINAR

 

Address:           Department of Computer Engineering, 06800, Bilkent University,

 

Education

   2007-2008      University of Pennsylvania, Center for Human Modeling and Simulation

                  Visiting Research Scholar

                  Advisor: Norman Badler

 

   2004-          Bilkent University, Department of Computer Engineering

                  Ph.D. in Computer Engineering

                  Advisor: Ugur Gudukbay

 

2002- 2004     Bilkent University,  Department of Computer Engineering

                  M.S. in Computer Engineering

                  Advisor: Ugur Gudukbay

                  CGPA: 3.61/ 4.00

 

1997- 2002     Middle East Technical University, Department of Computer Engineering

               Major in Computer Engineering

               CGPA: 3.54/ 4.00

               

1999- 2002     Middle East Technical University, Department of  Psychology

               Minor in Psychology

               CGPA: 3.77/ 4.00

 

   1991- 1997     Samsun Anatolian High School

                  CGPA: 4.96/ 5.00

 

 

 

Work Experience

2002-         Research and teaching assistant at Bilkent University CS Department

              Courses taught: Algorithms and Programming I-II, Introduction to Computing in Engineering and Science,

                  Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming, Introduction to Computing for Social Sciences,

                  Principles of User Interface Design, Computer Graphics I-II

 

2001                 6-week summer practice in TUBITAK-BILTEN

Testing and integration of an OCR program

An LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) client program design and implementation

 

2000                 6-week summer practice in TSK-ODTU MODSIMLAB

Worked in the Radcal Project which was about radar simulation

 

 

Awards and Honours

    2007          Awarded Scholarship by TUBITAK International Research Fellowship Programme

 

    2002          Awarded Full Scholarship at Bilkent University CS Dept.

    

    1997          Top 200 in National University Entrance Exam

    

    1997          Ranked 1^st upon graduation from high school

    

    1996          Ranked 3^rd in Blacksea Region in TUBITAK Biology exams

 

 

Computer Skills

Languages   C/C++, Pascal, Lisp, Prolog, Scheme, SML/NJ, Delphi, Visual Basic, Matlab, Java

 

      Libraries   OpenGL, Glut

 

      Hardware    80x86 Assembly Language, MIPS

 

      Platforms   Windows, Unix, Linux          

 

Languages

Turkish (Native)

English (Advanced)

French  (Elementary) 

Japanese(Elementary) 

 

Personal Interests

Tai Chi, photography, reading, movies, Japanese animations