PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Name: Pınar Muyan-Özçelik
E-Mail: pmuyan -AT- ucdavis -DOT- edu
Web-Page: http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~pmuyan
Department Address: 2063 Kemper Hall
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
EDUCATION:
PhD, Computer Science, University of California, Davis.
[http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu]
MSc, Computer Science, University of British Columbia, June 2004.
[http://www.cs.ubc.ca]
BSc, Computer Engineering, Ege University, June 1999.
[http://www.ege.edu.tr/english]
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Graphics Hardware, Artificial Intelligence.
PUBLICATIONS:
High performance computing for deformable image registration: Towards a new paradigm in adaptive radiotherapy, Sanjiv S. Samant, Junyi Xia, Pinar Muyan-Ozcelik, and John D. Owens, Medical Physics, 35(8):3546–3553, August 2008.
[http://scitation.aip.org/medphys/]
Fast Deformable Registration on the GPU: A CUDA Implementation of Demons, Pinar Muyan-Ozcelik, John D. Owens, Junyi
Xia, Sanjiv S. Samant. International Conference on
Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA) 2008, Perugia, Italy.
[http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~pmuyan/publications/ICSSA-2008-Fast_Deformable_Registration.pdf]
Situated Robot Design with Prioritized Constraints, Pinar Muyan-Ozcelik and Alan K. Mackworth, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2004, Sendai, Japan.
[http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~pmuyan/research/IROS-2004-Situated_Robot_Design.pdf]
Prioritized Constraints in the Design of a Situated Robot, Pinar Muyan-Ozcelik, MSc Thesis: Dept. of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, 2004, Vancouver, Canada.
[http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~pmuyan/research/MSc_Thesis-2004-Prioritized_Constraints.pdf]
A Blessing of Dimensionality: Measure Concentration and Probabilistic Inference, Pinar Muyan and Nando de Freitas, International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AI-STATS) 2003, Key West, FL, USA.
[http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~pmuyan/research/AI_STATS-2003-Blessing_of_Dimensionality.pdf]
presentations:
GPU Computing in Tomorrow's Automobiles, Talk given at nVision, San Jose, CA, August 27, 2008. [presented with Vladimir Glavtchev in the technical session on Automotive Visual Computing].
Fast Deformable Registration on the GPU: A CUDA Implementation of Demons, Talk given at International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA), Perugia, Italy, July 1, 2008. [presented in the first technical session on UnConventional High Performance Computing (UCHPC)].
GPGPU in Medical Imaging: Demons Registration with CUDA, Talk given at Eigen, Grass Valley, CA, October 26, 2007.
Situated Robot Design with Prioritized Constraints, Talk given at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Sendai, Japan, October 1, 2004.
Prioritized Constraints in the Design of a Situated Robot, MSc exit seminar at University of British Columbia (UBC), Laboratory for Computational Intelligence (LCI), Vancouver, Canada, May 21, 2004.
Constraint-based Design of Ainia, a Robotic Kicker, Poster and video presentation at 13th Annual Canadian Conference on Intelligent System (IS2003), Halifax, Canada, June 8-10, 2003.
TEACHING:
2001-2004:
Graduate Teaching Assistant,
University of British Columbia, Dept. of Computer Science
[http://www.cs.ubc.ca]
Courses:
-CPSC311-Essentials of Programming Languages
Term: Spring 2003/2004 Term2
Instructor: Kris De Volder
-CPSC219-Software Development Laboratory
Term: Fall 2003/2004 Term1
Instructor: Donald Acton
-CPSC422-Intelligent Systems
Term: Spring 2002/2003 Term2
Instructor: Gene Lee
AND
Term: Spring 2001/2002 Term2
Instructor: David Poole
-CPSC312-Functional and Logic Programming
Term: Fall 2001/2002 Term1
Instructor: David Lowe
HONORS AND ACTIVITIES:
Precarn Graduate Student Scholarship recipient, 2002-2003.
[http://www.precarn.ca]
St. John's College member, 2000-2004.
[http://www.stjohns.ubc.ca]
AIESEC exchange student, 1997-1998 and 1999-2000.
[http://www.aiesec.org]
WORK EXPERIENCE:
August, 1999 - August, 2001:
System Analyst,
Sanmar Canada
Richmond, BC, CANADA
[http://www.sanmarcanada.com]
-Customized D3 PICK 7.1 database system software that is being used for daily transactions. Coded, tested, and maintained the modules using Pick/BASIC-FlashBASIC programming language.
-Analyzed, troubleshot, and developed current IT systems of the company, which consist of Windows NT wide area network and D3 PICK on Linux multi-value database system. Evaluated and implemented new technologies as appropriate.
-Provided technical support to Windows NT 4.0 network clients (using Windows 9.x / NT workstations) and D3 Linux 7.1 database system (operating on Linux Redhat 5.2) telnet clients, who are experiencing hardware and software problems across the country.
-Developed small applications to standardize policies and procedures of the IT department utilizing MS Office products.
-Assisted in developing an IT Support Team. Managed this team and provided training to its members.
February, 1999 - August, 1999:
Analyst Programmer,
DEO Dusunce, Oyun, Egitim Teknolojileri Ltd.
(Thought, Education, Game Technologies Ltd)
Izmir, TURKEY
[http://bornova.ege.edu.tr/~orhun/ttgvtubi.htm]
-Analyzed and developed a software in the domain of computers in education.
-Developed multimedia applications for 7th grade students' math classes utilizing MacroMedia-AuthorWare 5 Attain. Conducted user studies.
July, 1997-September, 1998:
Software Development Intern,
Integrated Information Services/IMAGEMAX
Indianapolis, IN, USA
[http://www.imagemax.com]
-Developed document management software utilizing MFC, SQL Server, ODBC, NT and Visual C++.
-Implemented a form recognition system that electronically recognizes form elements on a Tiff file and creates linkages to the database tables.
-Participated as a team member in a custom project delivered to the Election Board of Cook County Chicago that helps manage the candidate review and tracking.
June, 1996 - September, 1996:
Software Development Group Member,
Ege University, Dept. of Computer Engineering
Izmir, TURKEY
[http://bilmuh.ege.edu.tr]
-Downsized the database of one of the principal insurance companies in Turkey.
-Designed user interfaces for end-users utilizing a generic program which was written in C++.
1995-1996:
Help Desk Member,
EgeNet Internet Services
Izmir, TURKEY
[http://www.egenet.com.tr/english.php]
-Provided customer training and support.
-Installed and maintained TCP/IP applications.
-Designed web pages.
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