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Dr. Mehmet S. Aktas received his Ph.D. degree in
Computer Science from
Computer
Science Department of
School of Informatics at
Indiana University,
Bloomington,
IN in
2007. He has worked as a researcher in
Pervasive
Technology Laboratory at Indiana University for
six years. Dr. Aktas received his M.S. degree
in Computer Science from EECS Department at
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
NY where he gave undergraduate-level lectures as an assistant instructor.
He holds a B.S. degree in
Industrial Engineering from
Istanbul Technical
University,
Istanbul,
Turkey and a Technical High School Diploma in Electric, Electronic and Control Technologies from
Haydarpasa Anatolia Technical Highschool, Istanbul,
Turkey.
Dr. Aktas designed and developed a fault-tolerant, high-performance Grid/Web Information System that is a distributed metadata management system that integrates and federates major grid information service implementations.
His Information System has been adopted as an information service by many projects accross a number of international institutions.
Dr. Aktas worked in Decision Applications Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory
as an intern doing research on service-oriented based computing for e-science simulations. He has also worked with
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory focusing on workflow-style grid applications for building an earth science framework for modeling and understanding earthquake and tectonic processes.
He has published three book chapters, many sci-indexed journal and peer-reviewed conference papers.
For more details, you can also check out his entries at DBLP and CSB.
Dr. Aktas has been serving as a reviewer on international journals, workshops and conferences. He has been giving
invited talks at both national and international meetings.
He is currently working as a senior researcher in the
Informatics Institute of
Marmara Research
Center at the
Turkish National Science
Foundation. He is also working as an adjunct professor in the
Computer Engineering Department
of Faculty of Engineering at the Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey where he has been giving graduate-level courses as a solo instructor.
You can find information about his
research, teaching, publications, presentations, professional activities
and find his
contact information in this site. |
