Expertise

His research interests are graph- and network-based learning and data science (pattern recognition, classification and clustering); random geometric graphs (proximity catch digraphs, their construction and characterization, domination, edge and arc density); network optimization (in relation to stochastic obstacle scene problem and Canadian traveler's problem); spatial point pattern and data analysis (by nearest neighbor and graph theoretic methods) and their applications; statistical methods for medical data and image analysis.

Research Interests: Machine learning and data science; Spatial Pattern and Data Analysis; Proximity Catch Digraphs (PCDs); Statistical Methods for Medical Data and Image Analysis

Keywords

  • learning, random geometric graphs, domination and density of graphs, spatial data analys
Past Affiliations

Deputy Director, Administration, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (past)

Research Associate Professor, Statistics, College of Sciences, North Carolina State University (past)

Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh (past)

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, College of Sciences, Koç University (past)

Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Koc University (past)

Communities
Statistics, Mathematics
Degrees
PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 2005
MSE, Johns Hopkins University, Statistics and Mathematical Sciences, 2002
MS, Oklahoma State University, Statistics, 2000
BS, Koc University, Turkey, Mathematics, 1997
Keywords
network optimization pattern recognition informatics & big data machine learning spatial data analysis optimal obstacle placement data science classification clustering random geometric graphs proximity catch digraphs graph-based learning domination in graphs and digraphs edge and arc density of graphs and digraphs spatial point patterns nearest neighbor methods medical image analysis medical applications and data analysis
Languages
English, Turkish
Honors

Elected Member, International Statistical Institute, 2011 November - Present

Member (currently Alumni), Global Young Academy, 2012-2017

Research Fellow, SAMSI, 2013-2014

Member, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 1999 - Present

Complimentary Membership, New York Academy of Sciences, 2015 - 2016

Young Affiliate Fellow, TWAS (The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World) , 2012 - 2016

Associations
American Statistical Association
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
International Statistics Institute
The International Association for Statistical Computing
American Mathematical Society
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
The Environmetrics Society