Department of Industrial
and Systems Engineering Office: (352) 392-1464 ext.
2031, Home: (352) 371-9179, Cell: (352) 871-2131 E-mail: seref@ufl.edu, URL www.ise.ufl.edu/cao/seref/ ONUR ŞEREF
EDUCATION
August 2001 – December 2006
Ph.D. Program in Operations Research
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Full support via Graduate Assistantship
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Dissertation Title:
“New Optimization Methods and Applications in Kernel Based Machine Learning”
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Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Panos M. Pardalos
September 1998 – July 2001
M.S. Degree in Industrial Engineering
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Full support via Graduate Assistantship
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Thesis Title: “A Monte-Carlo Simulation Model for Land
Combat”
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Thesis Advisor: Dr. Levent Kandiller
September 1994 – June 1998
B.S. Degree in Industrial Engineering
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Honor student
instructor
experience
Developing Decision Support Systems (ESI 4356/6355):
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Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007 (Graduate
and Undergraduate)
Facilities Planning and Material Handling (EIN 4365):
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Fall 2004 (Undergraduate)
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Received ISE graduate teaching award
Introduction to Information Technologies and
Applications (IS100): Middle East Technical University, Informatics Institute
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Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 1999, Spring 2000
(Undergraduate)
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Main coordinator of the campus wide course offered to over
1500 students
teaching
assistant experience
Developing Decision Support Systems (ESI 4356/6355):
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Spring
2005
Facilities Planning and Material Handling (EIN 4365):
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Fall 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall
2003, Spring 2004
Modeling and Simulation Graduate Program: Middle East
Technical University, Informatics Institute
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Fall 2000, Spring 2001
publications
1. O. Seref, E. O. Kundakcioglu,
O. A. Prokopyev, P. M. Pardalos, “Selective Support Vector Machines”, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization,
forthcoming, 2007.
2. O. Seref, C. Cifarelli, P. M.
Pardalos, M. Ding. “Detecting spatiotemporal effects of a visuomotor task using
kernel methods”, December 2006 (working paper).
3. O. Seref, R. K. Ahuja, J. Orlin
“Incremental Network Optimization: Theory and Algorithms”, Networks, November 2006 (submitted).
4. M. R.
Guarracino, C. Cifarelli, O. Seref,
P. M. Pardalos, “A Classification Method based on Generalized Eigenvalue
Problems”, Optimization Methods and Software, December 2005, in print, 2007.
5. Mario
R. Guarracino, C. Cifarelli, O. Seref,
Panos M. Pardalos, “A Parallel Classification Method for Genomic and Proteomic
Problems”, Proceedings of AINA (2),
January 2006: 588-592.
6. C. Cifarelli,
L. Nieddu, O. Seref, P. M. Pardalos,
“K-T.R.A.C.E: A Kernel k-means Procedure for Classification”, Computers and Operations Research, in
print, 2007.
7. C.
Cifarelli, Mario R. Guarracino, O. Seref,
S. Cuciniello, P. M. Pardalos, “Incremental Classification
with Generalized Eigenvalues”, Journal
of Classification, May 2006 (submitted).
- V. A. Yatsenko, O. Seref, P. A. Khandriga, “A
System Approach to Remote Sensing of Vegetation Using Component Analysis
and Kernel Methods”, January 2007. (working paper)
- O. Seref, L. Kandiller, N.
E. Ozdemirel, A Monte Carlo Simulation Tool for
Land Combat, Proceedings of CIE,
July 2002: 785 – 790.
- Kandiller
L., Meral S., O. Seref, D. Tursel, C. Ulu, C. Vardar, “Design of an Express Pizza Delivery
Service for Tadim Pizza in Bahcelievler”,
Technical Report, Middle East Technical University,
Industrial Engineering Department, Ankara Turkey, July 1998.
PRESENTATIONS
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Selective Support Vector Machines, Workshop on Data Mining and
Mathematical Programming,
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Neural Information Processing and Interpretation Using
Kernel Based Methods, IIE
Annual Conference,
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Kernel Based Methods Applied to Single Trial Neural
Signals, DIMACS
Workshop on Data Mining, Systems Analysis and Optimization in Neuroscience,
2006
(Local Committee Chair)
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Detecting Spatiotemporal Effects of a Visuomotor Task
Using SVM Based Methods, INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2005
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Incremental Network Optimization: Theory and Algorithms,
CORS/INFORMS,
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Monkey Search: A new meta-heuristic approach, INFORMS Annual Meeting,
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A Monte Carlo simulation tool for land Combat, 30th International Conference on
Computers and Industrial Engineering, 2002,
Professional
Activities
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Organizer of the Conference on Data Mining, Systems
Analysis and Optimization in Biomedicine, 2007
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Local Committee Chair of the Conference on Data Mining,
Systems Analysis and Optimization in Neuroscience, 2006
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Organizer of the Data Mining and Optimization in Biomedicine
(DaMOB) seminar.
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Referee for J. of Combinatorial Optimization, J. of
Global Optimization, Optimization Letters J.
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INFORMS member
AWARDS
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ISE Graduate Teaching Award, Spring 2005
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Full scholarship for graduate education abroad granted
by Higher Education Council of Turkey
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June 1998 First Place in Student Paper Contest, 19th
National IE & OR conference,
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January 1997 AIESEC International Internship
references
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Panos M. Pardalos, Distinguished Professor,
Dept of Industrial
and Systems Engineering ,
Email: pardalos@cao.ise.ufl.edu, Phone: (352) 392-9011
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Dept of
Industrial and Systems Engineering ,
Email: ahuja@ufl.edu, Phone: (352) 870-8401
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Mingzhou Ding, Professor
Dept. of Biomedical
Engineering,
Email:
mding@bme.ufl.edu, Phone: (352)
392-0354
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Donald W. Hearn, Professor
Dept of
Industrial and Systems Engineering ,
Email: hearn@ise.ufl.edu, Phone: (352) 392-1475