¨
Omer
Deniz Akyıldız
Email: [email protected]
Web : http://akyildiz.me
INTERESTS
Computational statistics; machine learning; signal processing.
EDUCATION
˙
MSc in Telecom. Eng., Istanbul
Technical University
2010 – 2012
Thesis Title: A Structured Sparse Decomposition Method for Audio Signals
˙
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Ilker
Bayram
˙
BSc in Telecom. Eng., Istanbul
Technical University
Thesis Title: Anisotropic Diffusion in Image Processing
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS
WORK
EXPERIENCE
2005 – 2010
¨ D. Akyıldız, Preprint,
1. “Online Matrix Factorization via Broyden Updates”, O.
arXiv:1506.04389, 2015.
˙ Bayram,
2. “Primal-Dual Algorithms for Audio Decomposition Using Mixed Norms”, I.
¨ D. Akyıldız, Journal of Signal, Image and Video Processing, 2014.
O.
¨ D.
3. “An Analysis Prior Based Decomposition Method for Audio Signals”, O.
˙ Bayram, EUSIPCO 2012.
Akyıldız and I.
Researcher, Bo˘
gazi¸ci University
Sept. 2012 – Ongoing
with Statistical Inference Group (PI-SIGMA).
• Worked on a number of machine learning projects under the supervision of Assoc.
Prof. A. Taylan Cemgil in Dept. of Computer Engineering.
Researcher, algosis inc.
July 2014 – June 2015
• Worked on financial time series, portfolio optimization, algorithmic trading.
˙
Researcher, Istanbul
Technical University
July 2011 – June 2012
funded by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.
• We developed an inverse problem formulation for multilayer decomposition of
audio signals. To solve this problem, we used convex optimization.
˙
Researcher, Istanbul
Technical University
August 2010 – July 2011
funded by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.
• I worked on incremental learning in the Nonnegative Matrix Factorisation and its
applications to online clustering of video scenes and digital video fingerprinting.
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant (Voluntarily), Bo˘gazi¸ci University
Monte Carlo methods (graduate course) × 3
Instructor: A. Taylan Cemgil, Dept. of Computer Engineering.
Bayesian statistics and machine learning (graduate course) × 2
Instructor: A. Taylan Cemgil, Dept. of Computer Engineering.
2013 – 2015
2013 – 2014
PROFESSIONAL Reviewer for the following journals: Digital Signal Processing, Elsevier; IEEE Signal
ACTIVITIES
Processing Letters.
SKILLS
MATLAB, Python, LaTeX.
TALKS
Expository talks I gave in the past.
• Particle methods for parameter estimation
March 31, 2015
• An online EM algorithm and some applications
November 26, 2013
• Stochastic Approximations
March 26, 2013
• Learning in Linear Dynamical Systems
January 21, 2013
• Simulation and Tracking of Interacting Targets
December 31, 2012
• Markov Decision Processes
November 5, 2012
• Switching Linear Dynamical Systems
October 15, 2012
SELECTED
Probability theory; Real analysis I; Monte Carlo methods; Bayesian statistics and
COURSEWORK machine learning; Statistical signal analysis; Stochastic models in Finance; Information
theory.
GRADUATE
SCHOOLS
Machine Learning Summer School
T¨
ubingen, Germany. (accepted with full financial support).
13-24 July 2015
Foundations and Advances in Stochastic Filtering
Barcelona, Spain.
22-26 June 2015
Lectures on Large Deviations and Probability Models
Mathematics Village, S¸irince, Turkey.
HONORS
SOCIAL
ACTIVITIES
1-8 September 2013
• Protel A.S
¸ . Graduate Fellowship
2010 – 2012
• Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Undergraduate Fellowship
2005 – 2008
• Premiership Undergraduate Fellowship
2005 – 2010
˙ U
¨ IEEE Communications Society Student Branch
• I served as the Chairperson of IT
between 2009-2010. I organized and gave short courses titled “Programming with
MATLAB” to undergraduate students of the Communications Engineering De˙ U.
¨
partment at IT
• When I was an undergraduate student, I gave high-school level geometry lectures
to students who could not afford University Entrance Exam preparatory schools.
My friends and I did this in a nonprofit student organization and gave lectures
totally free of charge.
HOBBIES
Playing guitar and drums, reading social psychology, maintaining a research blog:
http://www.almoststochastic.com.
REFERENCES
Assoc. Prof. A. Taylan Cemgil
Dept. of Computer Engineering
Bo˘
gazi¸ci University.
E-mail: [email protected]
Assoc. Prof. Atilla Yılmaz
Dept. of Mathematics
Bo˘gazi¸ci University.
E-mail: [email protected]
Last updated: June 17, 2015