Haluk Topçuoğlu

Assistant Professor

Computer Engineering Department

Faculty of Engineering, Marmara University

Education

August 1999	Syracuse University Syracuse, NY, USA Ph.D., Computer and Information Science Dissertation Title: "Scheduling Task Graphs in Heterogeneous Computing Environments". Concentration: Parallel and Distributed Computing, Metacomputing, Mapping and Scheduling. Advisor: Prof. Salim Hariri GPA: 3.9 / 4.0
June 1993	Bogazici University Istanbul, Turkey M.S., Computer Engineering Thesis Title: "Comparison of Multi-layer Perceptron Algorithms". Concentration: Neural Networks, Numerical Optimization Methods. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Levent Akin
June 1991	Bogazici University Istanbul, Turkey B.S., Computer Engineering

Work Experience

October 1999 - Present	Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department , Faculty of Engineering, Marmara University
Summer 1999 and Summer 1998	Instructor, Syracuse University CIS 333 - Unix Operating System and Internet - Taught this undergraduate course for non-major students in the summer sessions.
August 1998- May 1999	Graduate School Fellow, Syracuse University
January 1995-May 1998	Graduate Teaching Assistant, Syracuse University - Assisted Students in "Principles of Operating Systems'', "Programming Languages'', "Computer Architecture'' , "Introduction to Algorithms'' courses Graduate Research Assistant, Syracuse University Duties included: · worked in during the design phase of the VDCE (Virtual Distributed Computing Environment) project; designed task scheduling and performance prediction components of VDCE; written, submitted and presented several technical papers in the well-known international conferences.
Sept. 1991 - Dec. 1993	Graduate Teaching Assistant, Marmara University Assisted students in "Introduction to Operating Systems'', "Database Systems'', "Principles of Programming Languages'', "File Processing and Organization'', "Pascal and Fortran Programming'' courses.
June 1990 - Sept 1990	Summer Intern / Software Programmer, Information Processing Center, BIMSA, Istanbul, Turkey

Research Interests

Task Scheduling and Mapping, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Internet and Web Technologies, Heterogeneous Computing, Metacomputing and Cluster Computing.

Publications

Journal Papers	· H. Topcuoglu et al, ``The Design and Evaluation of a Virtual Distributed Computing Environment," published in Cluster Computing Journal, pp. 81-93, 1998.
Book Chapter	· S.Hariri, D. Kim, Y. Kim, I. Ra, H. Topcuoglu and J. Valente, ``A Problem Solving Environment for Network Centric Computing'', a chapter in Problem Solving Environments book, edited by Elias Houstis, Randall Bramley, and Efstratios Gallopoulos, to be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Conference Papers	1. H. Topcuoglu, S. Hariri and M. Wu, ``Task Scheduling Algorithms for Heterogeneous Processors,'' Proc. of IEEE Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW99), pp. 3-14, Puerto Rico, 1999. 2. H. Topcuoglu and S. Hariri, ``A Global Computing Environment for Networked Resources,'' Proc. of International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), pp. 493-496, Bloomingdale, IL, August 1997. 3. H. Topcuoglu et al., ``The Software Architecture of a Virtual Distributed Computing Environment'', Proc. of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-6), Portland Oregon, August 1997. 4. K Dincer , H. Topcuoglu, F. Sevilgen, P. Coddington, S. Ranka, "Parallel Simulation of Dynamically Triangulated Random Surfaces," Proc. of 8^th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, pp. 476-480, Chicago, IL, October 1996. 5. H. Topcuoglu and S Hariri, " JAVA-based Virtual Distributed Computing Envionment," Proc. of 8^th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, pp. 198-202, Chicago, IL, October 1996. 6. L Akin and H. Topcuoglu, "A Comparison of Several Nonlinear Optimization Methods as Multilayer Perceptron Training Algorithms," Third Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks, pp. 75-84, Ankara, Turkey, 1994.
Technical Report	· H. Topcuoglu and A. Choudhary, "Using PASSION System on LU Factorization," School of Computer and Information Science, Syracuse University, Serial No. SU-CIS-95-4.

Honors

· Graduate School Fellowship, Syracuse University, August 1998 - May 1999. This fellowship is the most prestigious graduate student award and winners are selected by Graduate School with competitive review of applicants nominated by academic units throughout the university. · The paper presented in Sixth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-6) was one of the five papers that were nominated for the best paper award, 1997. · Ranked in the top 0.1% among 600,000 participants in the National University Entrance Examination of Turkey, 1986. · Ranked 85 among 40,000 participants in the National "School of Science'' Entrance Examination of Turkey, 1983. · Ranked second among all high school graduates in a Mathematics and Science contest, in Erzurum, Turkey, 1982.

Affiliations and Professional Activities

· Nominated and elected the graduate representative for Tenure and Promotions Committee, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, April 1997 - April 1998. (This committee consists of 11 professors and an elected graduate student; it gives the final decision for tenure and promotions of faculty in the college). · Member of Phi Beta Delta (United State's first honor society to recognize individuals who have demonstrated high scholastic achievement and have demonstrated interest and involvement in international activities). · IEEE and IEEE Computer Society Member and ACM Member. · Technical Referee of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW), 1998. High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), 1996, 1997. International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS/SPDP), 1998. International Conf. On Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, 1996. International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP), 1997.