Academic Data Science

Speaker-1:

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Prof. Dr. Erdogan Dogdu

Computer Engineering Department
TOBB University of Economics and Technology

http://edogdu.etu.edu.tr/

Research interests:

Big Data
Semantic web, linked data
Ontologies
Web information systems
Databases, data mining

Speaker-2:

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Assistant Prof. Erman Ayday

Department of Computer Engineering
Bilkent University

http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erman/index.html

Erman Ayday is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Before that he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in the Laboratory for Communications and Applications 1 (LCA1) led by Prof. Jean-Pierre Hubaux. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Tech Information Processing, Communications and Security Research Lab (IPCAS) in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, in 2007 and 2011, respectively under the supervision of Dr. Faramarz Fekri. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2005.