EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC WORKS

Doctors of Philosophy (Ph.D), 2010

– Thesis : Model based learning algorithms based on physiological processes,
– Advisor : Prof. Dr. Galip Cansever, Faculty of Electrical & Electronics, Control And Automation Engineering Department, Vice Rector of Yildiz Technical University.

Ph.D. Research, The Computational Physiology Lab (CPL) of Computer Science Department, 2007
– Supervisor:  Eckhard-Pfeiffer Professor of Computer Science,  Distinguished Professor, Prof. Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
– Project: Stress Analysis Using Facial Signals of Neurophysiological Responses 

Ph.D. Candidate / Research in Computer Engineering Department, 2004-2007
– Worked as Researcher on Protein Function Prediction Using Machine Learning and Function Prediction Techniques”, Prof. Dr. Zehra Cataltepe (Istanbul Technical University), Prof. Dr. Yucel Altunbasak (Sabanci University and Georgia Institute of Technology), Prof. Dr. Ozlem Keskin (Koc University).

Lecturer, Teaching Assistant, Computer Engineering Department , 2002-2010
– Introduction to Computer Engineering
– Programming I-II
– Object Oriented Programming
– Data Structures and Algorithms I – II
– Database Design and Development
– Cloud Computing and Security and so forth ..

Lecturer, Teaching Assistant, Computer Engineering Department , 2001-2002
– Introduction to Computer Engineering.
– Computer Programming I -II
– Data Structures and Algorithms and so forth…

B.S., Engineering Faculty, 2001
– Student Asisstant at Polymer Research Center, 2000-2001 
M.S. System and Control Engineering, 2004
– Thesis : Multipath querying of hierarchically tree structured document databases in vector spaces
– Advisor : Prof. Dr. Uluğ Bayazıt, Co-Advisor : Prof. Dr. Fikret Gürgen

ACADEMIC PAPERS

Yeliz Karaca, ​Uğur Ayan,​ Yudong Zhang, Carlo Cattani, “​The Differential Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis Using Convex Combination of Infinite Kernels”​ , CNS Neurol Disord Drug Targets. 2017;16(1):36-43.
DOI: 10.2174/1871527315666161024142439

Nuri Ozalp, ​Uğur Ayan​, Erhan Oztop, “​Cooperative multi-task assignment for heterogeneous UAVs​”, Proceeding of International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2015),pp 599-604, 27-31 July 2015, Istanbul, Turkey.
DOI:10.1109/ICAR.2015.725151

Sadi Evren Seker, Oguz Altun, ​Uğur Ayan,​ Cihan Mert, “​A Novel String Distance Function based on Most Frequent K Characters”​ , International Journal of Machine Learning and Computation (IJMLC), vol.4, is.2, pp.177-183, 2014.
ISSN : 2010-3700 / DOI: 10.7763/IJMLC.2014.V4.408

Sadi Evren Seker, Cihan Mert, Khaled Al-Naami, Nuri Ozalp, U​ğur Ayan​, “​Time Series Analysis on Stock Market for Text Mining Correlation of Economy News​”, International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanity Studies Vol 6, No 1, pp. 69 – 91, 2014.
ISSN: 1309-8063

Nuri Özalp, Sinem Aykanat, Zeki Erdem, Uğur Ayan​, “​Autonomous Multi Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Path Planning on 3 Dimensional Terrain”,​ Proceeding of IEEE 22nd Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU 2014), 23-25 April, Trabzon,Turkey, 2014.

Sadi Evren Seker, Cihan Mert, Khaled Al-Naami, Nuri Ozalp, U​ğur Ayan​, “​Correlation between the Economy News and Stock Market in Turkey​”, International Journal of Business Intelligence and Review (IJBIR), vol. 4, is. 4, pp. 1-21, 2013.
ISSN: 1947-3591 / DOI: 10.4018/IJBIR / EISSN: 1947-3605

Sadi Evren Seker, Cihan Mert, Khaled Al-Naami, ​Uğur Ayan,​ Nuri Ozalp, “​Ensemble classification over stock market time series and economy news“​ , Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), Proceeding of 2013 IEEE International Conference, pp 272 – 273, 2013.
ISBN: 978-1-4673-6214-6, DOI: 10.1109/ISI.2013.6578840

Nuri Özalp, Sinem Aykanat, Zeki Erdem, Uğur Ayan​, “​Improved Naïve Bayesian Algorithm For Author Detection​”, Proceeding of IEEE 21st Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU 2013), pp. 1-4, 24-26 April, Haspolat-Nikosia, North Cyprus, Turkey, 2013.
E-ISBN :978-1-4673-5561-2, Print ISBN: 978-1-4673-5562-9, DOI: 10.1109/SIU.2013.6531369

Nuri Özalp, Özgur Koray Şahingöz, U​ğur Ayan​, “​Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Route Planning​”, IEEE 21st Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU 2013), pp. 1-4, 24-26 April, Haspolat-Nikosia, North Cyprus, Turkey, 2013.
E-ISBN :978-1-4673-5561-2, Print ISBN: 978-1-4673-5562-9, DOI: 10.1109/SIU.2013.6531369

Nuri Özalp, Guray Yılmaz, ​Uğur Ayan​, “N​ovel Comment Filterıng Approach Based On Outlier On Streamıng Data”​ , Proceeding of IEEE 20th Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU 2012), pp. 1-4, 18-20 April, Fethiye, Mugla, Turkey, 2012. E-ISBN: 978-1-4673-0054-4, Print ISBN: 978-1-4673-0055-1, DOI: 10.1109/SIU.2012.6204765.

Semih Dinç, ​Uğur Ayan,​ Abdullah Bal, “Gene Classification using Appropriate Feature Selection Method and Fukunaga-Koontz Transform Kernel”​ , Proceeding of National Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (ELECO 2010), pp.539-543, 2-5 December, Bursa, Turkey, 2010.
E-ISBN : 978-605-01-0013-6, Print ISBN: 978-1-4244-9588-7

Uğur Ayan​,”​Drug Candidate Protein Classification by QSAR Based Incremental Decremental Kernel Learning Model”​ , Proceeding of National Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (ELECO 2010), pp.544-548, 2-5 December, Bursa, Turkey, 2010. E-ISBN : 978-605-01-0013-6, Print ISBN: 978-1-4244-9588-7

Uğur Ayan​, Ph.D Thesis, Model based learning algorithms based on physiological processes, Yildiz Technical University, 2010.

Uğur Ayan​, Galip Cansever, “Drug/NonDrug Clustering Using Semi-Supervised Learning Approaches​”, poster session, in poster session, International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology RECOMB 2010, 12-15 August, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010.

Uğur Ayan,​ Ayça Çakmak Pehlivanlı, Galip Cansever, “​Feature Selection Criteria for Drug/Non Drug Compounds Based on Kernel Approaches”​ , Proceeding of International Symposium on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications, INISTA 2010 Proceeding, 21-24 June 2010, Kayseri, Turkey, 2010.

Uğur Ayan​, Galip Cansever, “N​ew Learning Approach for Drug Design​”, Proceeding of IEEE 18th Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU 2010), pp. 929 – 932, 22-24 April, Diyarbakır, Turkey, 2010.
Print ISBN: 978-1-4244-9672-3, DOI: 10.1109/SIU.2010.5651756

Ümit M. Karakaş, ​Uğur Ayan​, “Y​azılım Mühendisliği Eğitim Öğretimi İçinde Yazılım Kulubeleri ve Yazılım Kalite Kontrol Elemanı Kullanımı.​ ”, Journal of Türkiye Bilişim Vakfi Computer Science and Engineering, Vol.3, pp. 53- 62, March, 2010.

Zehra Cataltepe, U​ğur Ayan​, Eser Aygun.”​Protein Function Prediction Using Motifs, Sequence Features, Alignment Scores and Classifier Combination​”, in poster session, International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology RECOMB 2007, 21-25 April, San Francisco, USA, 2007.

Z. Cataltepe, U​gur Ayan​, H. Erdogan, O. Keskin, Y. Altunbasak, A. Filiz , C. Komurlu, Y. Yaslan, E. Aygun ve A. Sonmez, “F​ unction Prediction Using Both Amino Acid Sequence and Secondary Structure​”, Max Planck Institute-Koc Workshop on Protein Bioinformatics, 6-8 Eylül 2006, Koç Üniversitesi, İstanbul

Uğur Ayan​, M.S. Thesis, Multipath querying of hierarchically tree structured document databases in vector spaces, Bogazici University, 2004.

Uğur Ayan​, Uluğ Bayazıt, Fikret Gürgen, “​Multi-Path Database Querying using Best First Search Algorithm”​ , Proceeding of Turkish Symposia on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (TAINN 2004), 10-11 June, İzmir, Turkey, 2004.

Uğur Ayan​, Uluğ Bayazıt, Fikret Gürgen, “​Multipath Querying of Hierarchically Tree Structured Document Databases In Vector Spaces”​ , Proceeding of IEEE 12th Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU 2004), pp: 619 – 622, 28-30 April, Kuşadası, Aydın, Turkey, 2004.
Print ISBN: 0-7803-8318-4 DOI: 10.1109/SIU.2004.1338605