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Bilal Gonen
Phone: (775) 229-1427
E-mail: bilalgonengmail.com
Web: www.bilalgonen.com

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, in the University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA
  Aug 2006 - May 2009 (expected graduation)
  
  
• M.S. in Computer Science, in the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
  Aug 2003 - Aug 2006 (GPA: 3.14)
  
  
• B.E. in Computer Engineering, in the Sakarya University Sakarya, Turkey   (1998 - 2002)
  
  

PROJECTS

• Summer Intern, 2007 (Yourally Project)
  Internship report
  In Summer 2007, I worked as an intern in the on Aclick inc. company. I worked on a project, called YourAlly. YourAlly is a membership program where they sell several packages to the customers which makes them member.
  My responsibilities were;
  
  • Web design (HTML, JavaScript, CSS)
  • Web programming (PHP, AJAX, member login, admin login...etc.)
  • Database (Database design with more than 50 tables in MySQL)
  • Integrating the website with a shopping cart feature, and Google Checkout.
  Yourally website: http://www.yourally.com
  Internship report: [BilalGonen_Intern_Report_Summer2007.pdf]
  
  
• Semantic Browser (The project for my master thesis)
  Semantic Browser is a tool that enables the users to traverse among the semantically connected documents easily. The documents are connected by using the relationships, such as "causes", "adjacent to", "produces"...etc. Implemented by using HTML, DHTML, Ant & Tomcat, AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML), JSP (Java Server Page), Java Script, XMLDOM, DHTML, Ontology in RDF format, Lucene indexing (Pure Java code), Eclipse WTP (All-In-One) for Java coding.
  Details: http://www.bilalgonen.com/courses/thesis
  
  
• SemDis (Semantic Discovery: Discovering Complex Relationships in Semantic Web)
  A NSF Medium ITR project
  SemDis is a collaborative project between Kno.e.sis Center at Wright State University (SemDis at Kno.e.sis), LSDIS lab at UGA, and eBiquity at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (SemDis at UMBC). A second generation of the Web, "Semantic Web", will be built by adding semantic annotations that software can understand and from which humans can benefit. Modeling, discovering and reasoning about complex relationships on the Semantic Web will enable this vision and transform the hunt for documents into a more automated analysis enabled by semantic technology.
  Details: http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/projects/semdis
  
  
• Bioinformatics in distributed database
  The goal of this assignment is to create distributed mini database functionality. The communication between the client and server is through a named pipe. By using the MFC dialog, the client sends commands to server. Server takes the command, parses it. It creates database, initialize it. Then user inserts Genes sequence (A, C, T, G) into the database. User also searches a substring of the gene. Once the substring is found in the database, the information about the gene sequence (name of gene, species found in, date of discovery, name of discoverer) is returned to the MFC dialog box. This project is implemented by using Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0.
  Details: [Project website]
  
  
• Firewall programming (Computer Network Systems course - Semester Project)
  The goal of this assignment is to build a firewall running on the server side. The server gets the IP addresses to block from a file (blocked.txt). When a client request for a data from the server (request is just a "send data" command). Server respond with a sentence "This is data", ONLY if the client's IP address is not in the blocked.txt file. If the client's IP address is in the blocked.txt file, then server does not send any data to the client.
  Details: [Project website]
  
  
• Genetic Algorithm Finding the Shortest Path in Networks
  In this semester project report, I study the problem of optimizing OSPF weights, given a set of projected demands, with the objective of minimizing network congestion. The weight assignment problem is NP-hard. I developed a genetic algorithm (GA) to solve this problem.
  Details: Project Report
  
  
• Link Annotation Project website
  Links in a webpage can render useful information about the page it is pointing to. We can annotate webpage & its links with appropriate concepts from ontology. This project presents new idea of propagating concept from a webpage to the links pointing to that page or from the links to the webpage.
  Details: Project website
  
  
• Peer-to-peer Infrastructure Visualization
  In this project, we choose to use JXTA platform to build and investigate the current P2P network. The work begins with creating peers and groups using myJXTA, sharing and chatting are also experimented. Than we invoke JXTA APIs to discover the infrastructure dynamically, and output the result as specific XML format which is processed and visualized by TouchGraph as a topology of the overlay network.
  Details: Project Paper
  
  
• Distance Learning (Graduation Thesis : Bachelor of Engineering, 2002)
  The aim of the project is allow users to register to page, after registering page allow access to lectures, activate the progressive lessons and exams according to examination results. And communicate the other students visual or voiced during lecture. The Lessons are translations of first two semester of Cisco Networking Academy Program (CCNA) which is about 669 pages overall. Those Turkish Cisco Networking documents are included in the web page. This site is built by using ASP, HTML, Flash, Database, PhotoShop.
  Details: Distance Learning (Graduation Thesis : Bachelor of Engineering, 2002)
  
  

EXPERIENCE

• Intern, Yourally Project ,
  Internship report
  (Summer 2007)
  Web programming (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, AJAX), Database (more than 50 tables in MySQL), shopping cart, Google Checkout.
• Teaching Assistant in Computer Science at UNR for CS135 Introduction to Computer Science (as of Fall 2006)
• Research Assistant in LSDIS Lab, Computer Science, UGA (Spring 2006, Summer 2006)
• Teaching Assistant in Computer Science, UGA (for Database Management Systems(Summer 2005),  Algorithm(Fall2004),  Data Structures (Fall2004 and Fall2005), Internet Programming (Spring 2004) courses)
• Intern, Channel D Television, Istanbul, Turkey,   (8/2000 -  10/2000)
  Served as an intern in internet and teletext department. Updated web page and Dtext,  teletext of the Channel D.
  
• Intern, Datateknik Exper, Computer Production Factory, Istanbul, Turkey,   (7/2001  -  9/2001)
  Served as an intern in Production Department, Assembly Line, Technique Service, Networking Department.
  
  

TECHNICAL SKILLS

AWARD AND ACTIVITIES

• Ranked 3, ACM programming contest at University of Nevada, Reno.
• Teaching Turkish Language at UGA (LING 4920)
• UGA World Leader for Fall-2005 International Orientation Week.(World leader position is given by UGA to around 25 volunteers)
• President, Turkish Student Association at UGA (2004-2006)

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REFERENCES

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