Zafer Barutcuoglu

Education

Ph.D. Computer Science, 2008.

M.A. Computer Science, 2005.

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

M.S. Computer Engineering, 2002.

B.S. Mathematics, 2000.

Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Research Interests

Machine Learning, Data Mining, Multivariate Statistics, Bioinformatics.

Publications

L. Pena-Castillo, M. Tasan, C. L. Myers, H. Lee, T. Joshi, C. Zhang, Y. Guan, M. Leone, A. Pagnani, W. Kim, C. Krumpelman, W. Tian, G. Obozinski, Y. Qi, S. Mostafavi, G. N. Lin, G. Berriz, F. Gibbons, G. Lanckriet, J. Qiu, C. Grant, Z. Barutcuoglu, D. P. Hill, D. Warde-Farely, C. Grouios, D. Ray, J. A. Blake, M. Deng, M. Jordan, W. S. Noble, et al. "A critical assessment of Mus musculus gene function prediction using integrated genomic evidence," Genome Biology, 2008, 9(Suppl 1):S2.

Y. Guan, C. L. Myers, D. Hess, Z. Barutcuoglu, A. Caudy and O. G. Troyanskaya, "Predicting Gene Function in a Hierarchical Context with an Ensemble of Classifiers," Genome Biology, 2008, 9(Suppl 1):S3.

Z. Barutcuoglu, P. M. Long, R. A. Servedio, "One-Pass Boosting," Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2007.

C. DeCoro, Z. Barutcuoglu, R. Fiebrink, "Bayesian Aggregation for Hierarchical Genre Classification," 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2007.

Z. Barutcuoglu, C. DeCoro, "Hierarchical Shape Classification Using Bayesian Aggregation," Shape Modeling International (SMI), 2006.

Z. Barutcuoglu, R. E. Schapire, O. G. Troyanskaya, "Hierarchical Multi-label Prediction of Gene Function," Bioinformatics, 2006 Jan 12.

Z. Barutcuoglu, E. Alpaydin, "A Comparison of Model Aggregation Methods for Regression," Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), 2003.

Z. Barutcuoglu, "A Neural Network Approach to the Crossword Puzzle Problem," Proceedings of the 8th Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (TAINN), 1999.

Z. Barutcuoglu, "Automated Generation of Unconstrained Crossword Puzzles and an Estimate of Their Solution Space", Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS), 1997.

Thesis

Z. Barutcuoglu, "Learning Rules and Exceptions for Regression: The REx Algorithm," M.S. Thesis, supervised by Ethem Alpaydin, Bogazici University, 2002.

Teaching Experience

COS 402 Artificial Intelligence (TA)

COS 126 General Computer Science (TA)

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

Professional Experience

Credit Suisse, New York, NY, 2007.

Fixed Income IT Quant Summer Associate

Google, Mountain View, CA, 2006.

Research Scientist Intern

Turk.Net (www.turk.net, www.tnn.net), Istanbul, Turkey, 2000 – 2003

Manager of Software Development

Mikro Software House (www.mye.com), Istanbul, Turkey, 1997 – 2000

Software Developer