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

OBJECTIVE

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, in the University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA
  Aug 2006 - Dec 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)
  
  

EXPERIENCE

• Intern, Testwave LLC., (2008): Developed a database-driven system in ASP.NET 3.5, SQL server 2005
• 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 (between 2006 and 2009)
  Responsibilities included; teaching C++ programming language in lab sessions, and grading weekly projects.
• 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

PROJECTS

• www.ClubOnNet.com; A database driven website.
  I developed this project completely by myself. In this project, members can create their own club on the website. They can create photo albums and upload pictures to the album. Members can also join clubs on the website. Club owner may accept or reject the membership request. In each club. there is a forum where the members of the club can communicate.
  Technologies used in this project;
  
  • Web programming (ASP.NET 3.5, LINQ-to-SQL, Membership with multiple roles)
  • Database; I designed the database myself in SQL server 2005
  Note: You can also check the other two websites I developed in Turkish:
  www.dukkanrehberi.com (For companies, similar to yellow pages), www.kulubum.com (For clubs, the same idea for clubOnNet).
  
  
• 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
  Built a distributed mini database. 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. This project is implemented by using Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0. Details..
  
  
• Firewall programming, Built a firewall running on the server side. (Computer Network Systems course)
  
  
• Genetic Algorithm Finding the Shortest Path in Networks
  I study the problem of optimizing OSPF weights. 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
  We used JXTA platform to build and investigate the current P2P network. We also invoked JXTA APIs to discover the infrastructure dynamically and visualized by TouchGraph as a topology of the overlay network.
  
  
• Distance Learning (Graduation Thesis : Bachelor of Engineering, 2002)
  Built a website by using ASP, HTML, Flash, Database, PhotoShop. By registering to the site, the students access to lectures, activate the progressive lessons and exams. They also communicate with other students visual or voiced during lecture.
  
  

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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