PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Name:                             Pınar Muyan-Özçelik

E-Mail:                            pmuyan -AT- ucdavis -DOT- edu

Web-Page:                      http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~pmuyan

Department Address:       Department of Computer Science
                                       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:

GPU Computing, 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, August 2008, 35(8):3546–3553.
[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:

A GPU Approach to Speed Limit Sign Recognition, Talk given at GPU Technology Conference (GTC), San Jose, CA, October 2, 2009.

Speed-limit Sign Recognition with GPU Computing, Poster presentation at GPU Technology Conference (GTC), San Jose, CA, October 1, 2009.

GPU Computing in Tomorrow's Automobiles, Talk given at nVision, San Jose, CA, August 27, 2008. [presented 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:
-Essentials of Programming Languages
-Software Development Laboratory
-Intelligent Systems
-Functional and Logic Programming
  
HONORS AND AWARDS:

Google Anita Borg Scholarship Finalist, 2009.
[http://www.google.com/anitaborg]

UC Davis Fee Fellowship recipient, 2005-2007.
[http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu]

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.
-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 computer-aided education software.
-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 SQL Server, ODBC, MFC, and Visual C++.
-Implemented a form recognition system that electronically recognizes form elements on the image and links them to the database.
-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 C++ program.

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.