Welcome...
I am a post-doc fellow at the Computer Engineering Department of Bilkent University.
Bio: I graduated from Tokat Anatolian High School in 1995 and got my B.S. and M.S. degrees from Computer Engineering Dept. of Bilkent University, at May 1999 and September 2001, respectively.
In July 2009, I got my PhD degree from Bilkent University. Topic of my thesis is "Improving The Efficiency of Search Engines: Strategies for Focused Crawling, Searching, and Index Pruning", supervised by Prof. Özgür Ulusoy.
My current research interests include information retrieval (especially search efficiency for large scale systems/engines and cluster-based retrieval), XML, Web databases and query processing. Click here for my CV.
Research Group
I'm a member of Web Databases Research Group
(BilWEB) at Bilkent University.
Some of the prototype systems developed in our group are:
- Content Based Retrieval System for Digital Ottoman Archives
- E-museum of Isparta
- MoRec: Movie Recommendation System