Kamer Ali YUKSEL | Senior R&D Engineer & Data Scientist E-mail: kamer@sabanciuniv.edu | GSM: +90 (532) 526 8460

Research Interests Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Human-computer Interaction

Education § Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci

University (SU), Istanbul, Turkey (Sep 2010–Present) Full Scholarship, 3.97/4.00 GPA (High Honors Degree), Expected in Sep 2015. Dissertation: Novel Interaction Devices and Techniques for Ubiquitous Computing Environments, Funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), Supervised by Prof. Dr. Aytul Ercil

§ M.Sc., Computational Neuroscience, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Technical University of Berlin (TU-Berlin) & Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany (Sep 2009–May 2010; Incomplete)

§ B.Sc., Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, SU (Sep 2005–Jan 2009), Academic Success Scholarship, 3.24/4.00 GPA (Early Completion; Honors Degree). Graduation Project: Urban Modeling, Real-Time 3D Simulation of the vehicle and pedestrian traffic of a transit center in Istanbul using real data from Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, Supervised by Prof. Dr. Selim Balcisoy

§ Uskudar Science High School (Sep 2001–Jun 2014), Saint Benoit French High School (Sep 1996–Jun 2001)

Experience § Founder of OTA Expert Technology Consulting Inc, a business intelligence company providing machine-

learning based revenue-management SaaS technologies for analyzing competitors, optimizing prices and maximizing OTA revenue-share of hotels, Sep 2013–Present

§ Chief Executive Officer in Tarihi Rumeli Han Real-Estate Investment Trust, managed the development of the first Curio Collection by Hilton Hotel in Europe and the first Hampton by Hilton Hotel in Istanbul, Sep 2013–Present

§ PhD Researcher in Computer Vision and Pattern Analysis Laboratory (VPALAB), Research Project: VIPSAFE: Visual Monitoring for Improving Patient Safety, In collaboration with Kalrsruhe Institute of Technology & Videmo Intelligent Video Analysis GmbH & Vistek ISRA Vision Machine Vision and Automation Industry Trade Inc, Funded by German Federal Ministiry of Education and Research (BMBF) and TUBITAK, Supervised by Prof. Dr Aytul Ercil (SU), Sep 2010–Sep 2013

§ PhD Intern in Socio-Digital Systems (Human Experience & Design) Group, Computer-Mediated Living Laboratory, Microsoft Research Cambridge (MSRC), Supervised by Prof. Dr. Richard Harper & Dr. Abigail Sellen, Jun 2011–Oct 2011

§ Co-Instructor of IT535 Wireless & Mobile Programming (Summer) Course, Teaching Assistant in TE407 Computer Vision (Fall) and CS450 Arts & Computing (Spring) Courses, May 2010–Sep 2013

§ Executive Board Member in Gevrekli Tourism Leather Textile Industry Commerce Ltd and Yuksel Tourism Construction Industry Commerce Inc, May 2010–Sep 2013

§ Researcher in Quality and Usability Group, Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs), Research Project: MagiThings: Interaction with Mobile Devices via Magnetic Field Sensor, Supervised by Dr. Hamed Ketabdar (TU-Berlin), Sep 2009–May 2010

§ Researcher in Computer Graphics Laboratory (CGLAB), Research Project: Crowd Simulation/Rendering, Supervised by Prof. Dr. Selim Balcisoy (SU), Sep 2008–Sep 2009

§ Research Intern in Security Competence Center (CCSEC), Distributed Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

(DAI-Labor), Research Project: Securing Android-based Devices (T-Labs), In collaboration with Ben-Gurion University, Supervised by Prof. Dr. Sahin Albayrak, Jun 2008–Sep 2008

Achievements § Winner of the Silver Prize in MobileHCI 2011

Design Competition

§ Winner of the Traditional SU Video Game Programming Competition

§ Finalist of the “birFIKRINmiVAR?” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Contest

§ Scholar of the Erasmus Lifelong Learning Program (LLP) for Internship

§ Scholar of the Sakip Sabanci Encouragement Scholarship for Academic Success

§ Scholar of Dem@Care EU-FP7 Summer School on Ambient Assisted Living (DemAAL 2013)

Technical Skills

15+ Years of Experience

C, C++, C#, Obj-C, Java, Phyton, Ruby, PHP, MySQL, HTML5, jQuery, CSS, MATLAB, R, Hadoop, Solr, OpenGL, OpenCV, Nvidia CUDA, Nvidia PhysX, GLSL, SciPy, RapidMiner, PRTools, Weka, SVN, Git, Visual Studio, XCode, Eclipse, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android

Graduate Courses

3.97/4.00 GPA

Artificial Intelligence II, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Opinion Mining, Wireless Network Security I/II, Distributed Systems, Automated Debugging, Virtual Reality, Computer Graphics and Visualization, Interaction Design, Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, Physical Computing, Sound Projects

Professional Activities § Reviewer in Conferences: ISWC 2011, CGI 2012-2013, Pervasive 2012, CASA 2013, ISMAR 2013-2014,

MobileHCI 2013-2014, CIARP 2014, CHI 2015

§ Reviewer in Academic Journals: Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal (JESTECH); Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences

§ Committee Member of Kinect in Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2012) and Computer Science Student (CSW 2010–2014) Workshops, Student Volunteer at Conferences (SecureComm 2008, MobileHCI 2010, ICPR 2010, TEI 2011)

§ Graduation Project Supervisor of EE-CS Undergraduate Students: Haluk Ozduman, Ipek Baz, Koray

Ertekin, Cemre Senesen, Ilhan Demirci, Ihsan Kehribar, Firat Ozdemir

§ Executive Member at SU Computer Club and IEEE SU Student Branch (2004–2009), SU Representative of National Computer Engineering Students Congress (2006–2009)

References are available upon request.

Publications

h-index: 8, i10-index: 8, citations: 305

1. "Using Electromagnetic Input for Multi-user or Two-handed Spatial Gestural Interaction based on the Digital Compass", Submitted to the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2015), Copenhagen

2. "An RDF-Based Depth-Camera Action Recognition Framework for Therapy Exercises”, In Proceedings of the International Journal on Computer Graphics, The Visual Computer (To be appeared)

3. “Gestural Interaction with Mobile Devices based on Magnetic Field”, Book Chapter in “Research and

Design Innovations in Mobile User Experience”, Rizvanoglu, K. and Cetin, G. 2013, IGI Global, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4446-5.ch011

4. “Using Information Retrieval for Interaction with Mobile Devices”, Book Chapter in “Research and Design

Innovations in Mobile User Experience”, Rizvanoglu, K. and Cetin, G. 2013, IGI Global, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4446-5.ch015

5. "Real-time Feature-based Image Morphing for Memory-Efficient Impostor Rendering and Animation on

GPU”, In Proceedings of the International Journal on Computer Graphics, The Visual Computer, Journal no. 371, DOI: 10.1007/s00371-012-0718-8

6. "AVIEM: an Audio Visual Emotion Library”, In Proceedings of the Intellect Metaverse Creativity Journal:

Building, Performing, Learning and Authorship in Online 3D Worlds, Volume 1 / Issue 2, DOI: 10.1386/mvcr.2.1.77_1

7. “A Decision Forest Based Feature Selection Framework for Action Recognition from RGB-Depth

Cameras”, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR 2013), Povoa de Varzim

 8. “WorkoutSU-10 Kinect Exercise Dataset”, Technical Report: VIPSAFE-109E134, Computer Vision and

Pattern Analysis Laboratory (VPALAB), Sabanci University 9. "An Interface for Emotional Expression in Audio-Visuals", In Proceedings of the 12th International

Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2012), Ann Arbor 10. "Digital Sound Synthesis via Parallel Evolutionary Optimization (in Turkish), In Proceedings of the IEEE 20th

Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU 2012), Fethiye 11. "Digital Music Performance for Mobile Devices Based on Magnetic Interaction", In Proceedings of the

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM). 11/2011; 60(11): 3524-3533 12. "Using Image Morphing for Memory-Efficient Impostor Rendering on GPU", In Proceedings of the

International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW 2011), Calgary 13. "Prototyping Input Controller for Touch-less Interaction with Ubiquitous Environments", In Proceedings of

the 13th Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2011), Stockholm

14. "Designing Mobile Phones using Silent Speech Input and Auditory Feedback", In Proceedings of the 13th

Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2011), Stockholm

15. "Augmenting Conversations through Context-Aware Multimedia Retrieval based on Speech Recognition", In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2011), Mountain View

16. "Parallel Evolutionary Optimization of Digital Sound Synthesis Parameters", In Proceedings of the

European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation in (EvoApplications 2011), the main European Events on Evolutionary Computation (EvoStar 2011), Torino

17. "A Software Platform for Genetic Algorithms based Parameter Estimation on Digital Sound Synthesizers",

In Proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2011), Taichung 18. "MagiMusic: Using Embedded Compass (Magnetic) Sensor for Touch-less Gesture based Interaction with

Digital Music Instruments in Mobile Devices", In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI 2011), Funchal

19. “Touchless Magnetic Interaction with Mobile Devices (in Turkish)”, In Proceedings of the IEEE 19th

Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU 2011), Antalya 20. "Towards Digital Music Performance for Mobile Devices Based on Magnetic Interaction", In Proceedings

of the IEEE International Symposium on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and Games 2010 (HAVE 2010), Phoenix

21. "MagiSign: User Identification/Authentication Based on 3D Around Device Magnetic Signatures", In

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM 2010), Florence

22. ”MagiWrite: Towards Touchless Digit Entry Using 3D Space Around Mobile Devices”, In Proceedings of the

12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2010), Lisboa

23. ”Towards Using Embedded Magnetic Field Sensor for Around Mobile Device 3D Interaction”, In

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2010), Lisboa

24. ”MagiEntertain: Mobile Entertainment Interaction Based on Magnetic Field”, In Proceedings of the IADIS

International Conference Game and Entertainment Technologies 2010, Freiburg 25. ”MagiTact: Interaction with Mobile Devices Based on Compass (Magnetic) Sensor“, In Proceedings of

the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2010), Hong Kong 26. “Smart Ring: Controlling Call Alert Functionality Based on Audio and Movement Analysis”, In

Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2010), Hong Kong 27. “Adaptive Behavioral Modeling for Crowd Simulations“, In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference

on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2009), Amsterdam 28. “Static Analysis of Executables for Collaborative Malware Detection on Android“, In Proceedings of the

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2009), Dresden 29. Enhancing Security of Linux-based Android Devices“, In Proceedings of the 15th International Linux

System Technology Conference (Linux-Kongress 2008), Hamburg 30. “Monitoring Android for Collaborative Anomaly Detection: A First Architectural Draft“, Technical Report:

TUB-DAI 08/08-02, Distributed Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (DAI-Labor), Technical University of Berlin