Dr. Berkant Barla Cambazoglu
Contact Information	Address: Ohio State University, Department of Biomedical Informatics, 3170C Graves Hall, 333 West 10th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210 Phone: +1 (614) 292-7271 Fax: +1 (614) 688-6600 Email: barla.at.bmi.osu.edu
Education	Postdoc Dept. of Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University, September 2006 - present. Postdoc Dept. of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, January 2006 - September 2006. Ph.D. in Computer Science Dept. of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, February 2000 - January 2006. Thesis: Models and algorithms for parallel text retrieval. Supervisor: Cevdet Aykanat. CGPA: 4.00 M.Sc. in Computer Science Dept. of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, December 1997 - February 2000. Thesis: A hypergraph-partitioning-based remapping model for image-space parallel volume rendering. Supervisor: Cevdet Aykanat. CGPA: 3.89 B.Sc. in Computer Science Dept. of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, September 1992 - December 1997. CGPA: 3.28 (ranked 7th)
Research Interests	Parallel and distributed computing (direct volume rendering, Web crawling) Grid computing (service-based architectures, dynamic deployment) Combinatorial algorithms (graph & hypergraph partitioning) Information retrieval (search engines, inverted indices, query processing) Machine learning (text classification, authorship detection)
Funded Projects	The SE4SEE (Search Engine for South-East Europe) regional application under the SEE-GRID project, funded by the European Union 6th Framework Program, Investigator, May 2004 - April 2006. Efficient parallel crawling of Web content, funded by The Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) under project EEAG-103E028, Investigator, April 2004 - March 2006. Task scheduling algorithms for PC clusters, funded by The Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) under project EEAG-199E013, Investigator, September 1999 - March 2002.
Journal Publications	B.B. Cambazoglu, A. Turk, E. Karaca, C. Aykanat, and T. Kucukyilmaz, Architecture of a grid-enabled search engine, Information Processing & Management, Special Issue on Heterogeneous and Distributed Information Retrieval, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 609-623, 2007. B.B. Cambazoglu and C. Aykanat, Hypergraph-partitioning-based remapping models for image-space-parallel direct volume rendering of unstructured grids, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 3-16, 2007. C. Aykanat, B.B. Cambazoglu, F. Findik, and T. Kurc, Adaptive decomposition and remapping algorithms for object-space-parallel direct volume rendering of unstructured grids, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 77-99, 2007. B.B. Cambazoglu and C. Aykanat, Performance of query processing implementations in ranking-based text retrieval systems using inverted indices, Information Processing & Management, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 875-898, 2006.
Conference Publications	B.B. Cambazoglu and C. Aykanat, Remapping Models for Scientific Computing via Graph and Hypergraph Partitioning, The SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing, Costa Mesa, CA, February 2007. B.B. Cambazoglu, A. Catal, and C. Aykanat, Effect of inverted partitioning schemes on performance of query processsing in parallel text retrieval systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4263, pp. 717-725, 2006. T. Kucukyilmaz, B.B. Cambazoglu, C. Aykanat, F. Can, Chat mining for gender prediction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4243, pp. 274-283, 2006. B.B. Cambazoglu and C. Aykanat, A term-based inverted index organization for communication-efficient parallel query processing, Proceedings of IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, Tokio, Japan, October 2006. A. Cevahir, C. Aykanat, A. Turk, and B.B. Cambazoglu, Web-site-based partitioning techniques for reducing the preprocessing overhead before the parallel PageRank computations, Workshop on State-of-the-Art in Scientific and Parallel Computing, Umea, Sweden, June 2006. B.B. Cambazoglu, A. Turk, E. Karaca, C. Aykanat, B. Ucar, and T. Kucukyilmaz, SE4SEE: a grid-enabled search engine, Proceedings of the Hypermedia and Grid Systems Conference in the MIPRO'05 Convention, pp. 223-227, Croatia, May 2005. B.B. Cambazoglu, A. Turk, and C. Aykanat, Data-parallel Web crawling models, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3280, pp. 801-809, 2004. B.B. Cambazoglu and C. Aykanat, Image-space-parallel direct volume rendering on a cluster of PCs, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2869, pp. 457-464, 2003.
Developed Software	SE4SEE grid-enabled search engine, 2005. Harbinger machine learning toolkit, 2003. Skynet search engine, 2003. Animals of Ducovin, a turn-based strategy game, 2003. Stock market prediction toolkit, 2002. Dialog mining software for analysis of human conversations, 2000. MyFSA finite state automata toolkit, 2000. Yuran, a chinese checker playing bot, 1999. Heaven bulletin board service, 1998. Superquadratic deformator, 1998. Spring-mass simulator, 1998. Spritor, a keyboard-based icon editor, 1996.
Languages	Turkish (native) English (fluent) Italian and Russian (one sentence)
Honors	Received the caBIG Embodying the Vision Award as a developer of the In Vivo Imaging Core Middleware Project, 2007. Juggled 8 balls (unofficial, national numbers ball juggling record), 2005. The best teaching assistant award, 2000. Bilkent University slogan contest winner, 2000. Green belt in shotokan karate, 1996. Full scholarship from Bilkent University, 1992-1997. Ranked within the first 300 students among more than a million candidates in the Turkish University Entrance Exam (OYS), 1992.
Interests	Coding, basketball, chess, juggling, board games.