Ahmet Erben

 

Sabancı University

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Orhanlı, Tuzla, 34956, İstanbul, Turkey

Cell: +90 532 263 96 23     

E-mail: ahmeterben@su.sabanciuniv.edu

 

 

Education

 

        2005 - Present              Sabancı University (SU), Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences (FENS)

        2002 - 2005                  Bursa Science High School, Bursa, Turkey

 

Academic Experience

Independent Projects     Fall 2008 – Spring 2009, Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Kemal İnan and Assist. Prof. Dr. Hüsnü Yenigün

                                    A project on randomly generating huge finite state machines having different features

                                    Fall 2008 – Spring 2010, Supervisors: Assist. Prof. Dr. Fırat İnceoğlu and Assist. Prof. Dr. Mahmut Bayazıt

                                    An ongoing economic research on the relation between the employees’ salaries and their performance

                                    Summer 2008, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kemal Oflazer

                                    A summer project on the implementation of Kemal Oflazer’s paper “Error-tolerant Finite-state Recognition with Applications to Morphological Analysis and                                     Spelling Correction”

Course Projects               2009 – Spring 2010, Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erkay Savaş

                                    Graduation project on computing discrete logarithm over extension fields using multi-core machines

                                    Fall 2009, Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Gözde Ünal

                                    A project on background subtraction for foreground detection to detect moving objects in a video which can be beneficial in monitoring traffic and video                                     surveillance

                                    Fall 2009, Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erkay Savaş

                                    A project on parallel implementation of Index-Calculus Method, presenting a solution to discrete logarithm problem which is a major problem in Cryptography,                                     on multi-core machines

                                    Spring 2009, Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cemal Yılmaz

                                    A project on designing and implementing a course registration system. The project consists of two parts: one writing a report dealing with designing and                                     the latter part is about code writing focusing on implementation

                                    Spring 2009, Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Albert Levi

                                    A project on implementing a file sharing application such as ‘FileSharerDownloader’ sharing and downloading files; and a ‘Tracker’ coordinating the file sharing                                     and downloading operations via connections to ‘FileSharerDownloader’s

                                    Spring 2009, Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Yücel Saygın

                                    A project on creating a database which includes Comic Book Heroes, designing a webpage to access the database and also providing users some applications to                                     perform on the database

                                    Fall 2008, Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Yücel Saygın

                                    Implementing an Operating System Simulator consists of a memory simulator which deals with memory allocation and deallocation of processes and a CPU                                     simulator dealing with the execution of the instructions of the processes in C++

                                    Fall 2008, Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erkay Savaş

                                    Designing a vending machine that features two merchandise items and that accepts two types of coins. Vending Machine Circuit Design was implemented on                                     FPGA by using Verilog

                                    Spring 2007, Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Can Akkan

                                    Founding a business for VIP class people who are seeking to rent high quality automobiles which are rare in Turkey like Hummer Limousine, BMW 7.50, Audi R8

                                    Spring 2007, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Aytül Erçil

                                    A fairly new developing system compiling the pieces of a puzzle which renders especially the archeologists' technical projects more facile in a broader sense

                                    Fall 2005 – Spring 2006, Supervisor: Tara Hopkins

                                    Fostering an awareness in the individual's social and cultural perspective by encouraging involvement in civic and community organizations such as school                                     through a platform for social responsibility

 

Professional Experience

Academic

Fall 2009                           Teaching Assistant of Hüsnü Yenigün, CS 301 Algorithms – SU, FENS CS

                                    Giving problem session hours, preparing homework and grading exam papers

Work/Internship

Aug 2009 – Sep 2009      Internship – Microsoft Corporation: Turkey

                                    Six weeks as a data analyzer under the department “specialized on licensing”

July 2009                           Internship – Garanti Technology

                                    In the Automotive Companies Software Development Department, in a project 9 years in process reporting with a Reporting Service feature of SQL Server 2008                                     and web page designing with ASP .NET for four weeks

 

Competitions

 

Skills

Spoken Languages

English: Advanced (Prep Class at Sabancı University), German: Intermediate (5years in Private School), Turkish: Native

 

Programming

 

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