CV
Education
- Certificate in Business Excellence (CIBE) from Columbia Business School, 2022.
- Advanced Certificate for Executives (ACE) in Management, Innovation, and Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management, 2018.
- Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA, 2001.
- M.S. in Computer and Information Science from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA, 1996.
- B.S. in Computer Science from Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, 1991.
Work experience
- September 2022 - Present, Software Engineering Manager,
- The Walt Disney Company, New York, New York, USA.
- May 2021, Software Development Manager,
- Amazon, New York, New York, USA.
- April 2019 - May 2021, Software Engineering Manager: Data and Analytics,
- IAC (iac.com) Mosaic Group, New York, New York, USA.
- November 1999 - October 2018, Lead Scientist/Principal Engineer,
- Panasonic R&D Center, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
- May 1997 - October 1999, Research Assistant,
- Northeast Parallel Architecture Center(NPAC), Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA.
- August 1996 - May 1997, Teaching Assistant,
- College of Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA.
- Jan 1992 - Aug 1994, Research and Teaching Assistant,
- Department of Computer Science,Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
Teaching
Awards
- Received IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor, 2022 March, IEEE Computer Society
- ONVIF Distinguished Service award, 2018
- ONVIF 2014 Award for contributions to ONVIF Standards, 2014
- Panasonic Corporation IP Commendation, 2014
- Received ACM Senior Member award recognizing work & research contributions, 2013
- Received IEEE Senior Member award recognizing work & research contributions, 2013
- Panasonic Corporation of North America (PNA) award, 2013
Certifications
- PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) (2018-2027)
- PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) (2020-2026)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (2020-2023)
- Scrum Product Owner (2018-2021)
- Scrum Master (2018-2024)
- SAFe 4 Agilist (2018-2022)
- Neo4j Certified Professional (2022),
- Neo4j Graph Data Science Certification (2022),
- Udacity Data Streaming Nanodegree (2022),
- Cloudera Machine Learning with TensorFlow on Google Cloud Platform(2020),
- Applied Machine Learning by Columbia Engineering Executive Education (2019),
- Machine Learning: From Data to Decisions, MIT Professional Education (2019),
- Udacity Data Engineering Nanodegree (2019),
- Udemy Complete Guide to TensorFlow for Deep Learning with Python (2019),
- Harvard Business School Online, Certificate of Specialization in Strategy (2021),
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management, Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership (2017),
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management, Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation (2017),
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management, Executive Certificate in Technology, Operations, and Value Chain Management (2017),
- Rutgers Business School Mini-MBA for Engineers and Technology Managers (2016).
Publications
Design and Implementation of Semi-Automated System for Fetal Head Images
Zeynep Odcikin, H. Timucin Ozdemir, Umit Karakas. (1994). "Design and Implementation of Semi-Automated System for Fetal Head Images.", in 11th Informatique Conference of Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey, (Sept. 14-17,1994).
A Digital Image Processing Subsystem For Semi Automated Karyotyping
H. Timucin Ozdemir, Zeynep Odcikin, Umit Karakas, M. Sinan Beksac, N. Cakar. (1994). "A Digital Image Processing Subsystem For Semi Automated Karyotyping.", in International Symposium on Computer and Information Science, Antalya, Turkey, (November 7-9, 1994).
Exploring JSDA, CORBA and HLA based MuTech’s for Scalable Televirtual (TVR) Environments
Geoffrey Fox, Wojtek Furmanski, Balaji Natarajan, H. Timucin Ozdemir, Shrideep Pallickara, Zeynep Ozdemir, Daniel Dias, Vishal Mehra.. (1998). "Exploring JSDA, CORBA and HLA based MuTech’s for Scalable Televirtual (TVR) Environments.", in Workshop on OO and VRML in the VRML98 Conference, Monterey, California on Feb 16-19, 1998.
WebHLA - An Interactive Programming and Training Environment for High Performance Modeling and Simulation
D. Bernholdt, G. Fox, W. Furmanski, B. Natarajan, H. Ozdemir. (1998). "WebHLA - An Interactive Programming and Training Environment for High Performance Modeling and Simulation", in DoD HPC 98 Users Group Conference (June), 1998.
From JavaBean to Database Web Servers in the Pragmatic Object Web
Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski and Hasan T. Ozdemir. (1998). "From JavaBean to Database Web Servers in the Pragmatic Object Web", in the Internet Server Performance Workshop, Madison, Wisconsin, June 23, 1998.
Object Web (Java/CORBA) based RTI to support Metacomputing M&S
G.C. Fox, W. Furmanski and H. T. Ozdemir. (1998). "Object Web (Java/CORBA) based RTI to support Metacomputing M&S", in International Test and Evaluation Association Workshop (ITEA’98) , Aberdeen, MD, July 13-16, 1998.
Java/CORBA based Real-Time Infrastructure to Integrate Event-Driven Simulations, Collaboration and Distributed Object/Componentware Computing
Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski and Hasan T. Ozdemir. (1998). "Java/CORBA based Real-Time Infrastructure to Integrate Event-Driven Simulations, Collaboration and Distributed Object/Componentware Computing", in International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA’98), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 13-16, 1998.
HPcc as High Performance Distributed Computing on top of integrated Java, CORBA, COM and Web standards
G. Fox, W. Furmanski, T. Haupt, E. Akarsu, H. Ozdemir. (1998). "HPcc as High Performance Distributed Computing on top of integrated Java, CORBA, COM and Web standards", in Proceedings of the EuroPar98 Conference, Southampton, U.K., September 1-4, 1998.
IBuilding Web/Commodity based Visual Authoring Environments for Distributed Object/Component Applications - A Case Study using NPAC WebFlow System
E. Akarsu, G. Fox, W. Furmanski, T. Haupt, H. Ozdemir, Z. Ozdemir and Tom A. Pulikal. (1998). "IBuilding Web/Commodity based Visual Authoring Environments for Distributed Object/Component Applications - A Case Study using NPAC WebFlow System", in November 1, 1998.
Integrating Web, Desktop, Enterprise and Military Simulation Technologies To Enable World-Wide- Scalable Televirtual (TVR) Environments
G.C. Fox; W. Furmanski; B. Natarajan; H.T. Ozdemir; Z. Odcikin Ozdemir; S. Pallickara; T. Pulikal. (1999). "Integrating Web, Desktop, Enterprise and Military Simulation Technologies To Enable World-Wide- Scalable Televirtual (TVR) Environments", in Information & Security-An International Journal, Volume 3-1999 : Modeling and Simulation, pp. 149-160. Hard copy: ISSN 1311-1493.
WebHLA - An Interactive Multiplayer Environment for High Performance Distributed Modeling and Simulation
G. Fox, W. Furmanski, S. Nair, H. Ozdemir, Zeynep Odcikin-Ozdemir, Tom A. Pulikal. (1999). "WebHLA - An Interactive Multiplayer Environment for High Performance Distributed Modeling and Simulation", in 1999 International Conference On Web-Based Modeling & Simulation (WEBSIM’99).
Using WebHLA to Integrate HPC FMS Modules with Web/Commodity based Distributed Object Technologies of CORBA, Java, COM and XML
Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski, Ganesh Krishnamurthy, Hasan T. Ozdemir, Zeynep Odcikin Ozdemir, Tom A. Pulikal, Krishnan Rangarajan, Ankur Sood. (1999). "Using WebHLA to Integrate HPC FMS Modules with Web/Commodity based", in Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference (ASTC’99), Hyatt Island, San Diego, California, 1999.
WebHLA as Integration Platform for FMS and other Metacomputing Application Domains
G. Fox, W. Furmanski, G. Krishnamurthy, H. Ozdemir, Z. Ozdemir, T.Pulikal, K. Rangarajan and A. Sood. (1999). "WebHLA as Integration Platform for FMS and other Metacomputing Application Domains", in Proceedings of the DoD HPC Users Group Conference, Monterey, CA, June 8-15.
GraGA: A Graph Based Genetic Algorithm for Airline Crew Scheduling
H. Timucin Ozdemir, Chilukuri Mohan. (1999). "GraGA: A Graph Based Genetic Algorithm for Airline Crew Scheduling", in The Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI’99), Chicago IL, November 9-11.
Flight Graph Based Genetic Algorithm for Crew Scheduling in Airlines
H. Timucin Ozdemir, Chilukuri Mohan. (2000). "Flight Graph Based Genetic Algorithm for Crew Scheduling in Airlines", in Frontiers of Evolutionary Algorithms (FEA’2000) in conjunction with Joint Conference of Information Sciences, February 26-March 2, 2000, Atlantic City, NJ, USA.
Evolving Schedule Graphs for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
H. Timucin Ozdemir, Chilukuri Mohan. (2000). "Evolving Schedule Graphs for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows", in Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC’2000, July 16-19, 2000, San Diego, USA, Vol. 2, pp. 888-895.
Flight Graph Based Genetic Algorithm for Crew Scheduling in Airlines
H. Timucin Ozdemir, Chilukuri Mohan. (2001). "Flight Graph Based Genetic Algorithm for Crew Scheduling in Airlines", in International Journal of Information Sciences, Volume 133, Issues 3–4, April 2001, Pages 165–173.
Issues in the transmission, analysis, storage and retrieval of surveillance video
D. Doermann, A. Karunanidhi, N. Parkeh, M.A. Khan, Shiwen Chen, Hasan Timucin Ozdemir, M. Miwa, Kuo Chu Lee. (2003). "Issues in the transmission, analysis, storage and retrieval of surveillance video", in International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2003, Vol. 2, pp. 161-164.
A Novel 2D Marker Design and Application for Object Tracking and Event Detection
X. Liu, D. Doermann, H. Li, Kuo Chu Lee, Lipin Liu, Hasan Timucin Ozdemir. (2008). "A Novel 2D Marker Design and Application for Object Tracking and Event Detection", in Advances in Visual Computing, 4th International Symposium, ISVC 2008.
Direction clustering for characterizing movement patterns
W. Zhou, H. Xiong, Y. Ge, J. Yu, Hasan Timucin Ozdemir, Kuo Chu Lee. (2010). "Direction clustering for characterizing movement patterns", in 2010 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI).
Top-Eye: top-k evolving trajectory outlier detection
Yong Ge, Hui Xiong, Zhi-hua Zhou, Hasan Timucin Ozdemir, Jannite Yu, Kuo Chu Lee. (2010). "Top-Eye: top-k evolving trajectory outlier detection", in CIKM 10, Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management.
Patents
Threat-detection in a distributed multi-camera surveillance system
Hasan Timucin Ozdemir, Kuo Chu Lee. (2014). "Threat-detection in a distributed multi-camera surveillance system", US 8,760,519 (June 24,2014).
Predicting a future location of a moving object observed by a surveillance device
Kuo Chu Lee, Hasan Timucin Ozdemir, Juan Yu. (2012). "Predicting a future location of a moving object observed by a surveillance device", US 8,253,564 (August 28,2012).
System architecture and process for assessing multi-perspective multi-context abnormal behavior
Hasan Timucin Ozdemir, Hongbing Li, Lipin Liu, Kuo Chu Lee, Namsoo Joo. (2012). "System architecture and process for assessing multi-perspective multi-context abnormal behavior", US 8,169,481 (May 01,2012).
System architecture and process for seamless adaptation to context aware behavior models
Juan Yu, Hasan Timucin Ozdemir, Kuo Chu Lee. (2012). "System architecture and process for seamless adaptation to context aware behavior models", US 7,962,435 (June 14, 2011).
System architecture and process for automating intelligent surveillance center operations
Hasan Timucin Ozdemir, Kuo Chu Lee, Hongbing Li, Lipin Liu. (2010). "System architecture and process for automating intelligent surveillance center operations", US 7,840,515 (November 23, 2010).
Intelligent, dynamic, long-term digital surveilance media storage system
Lipin Liu, Kuo Chu Lee, Hasan Timucin Ozdemir. (2010). "Intelligent, dynamic, long-term digital surveilance media storage system", US 7,751,632 (July 06, 2010).
Method and system for scoring surveillance system footage
Hasan Timucin Ozdemir, Sameer Kibey, Lipin Liu, Kuo Chu Lee, Supraja Mosali, Namsoo Joo, Hongbing Li, Juan Yu. (2010). "Method and system for scoring surveillance system footage", US 7,667,596 (February 23, 2010).
Intelligent MPEG media storage, execution, and presentation system using network storage system
Kuo Chu Lee, Hasan Timucin Ozdemir, Lipin Liu. (2009). "Intelligent MPEG media storage, execution, and presentation system using network storage system", US 7,610,604 (October 27, 2009).
Associative vector storage system supporting fast similarity search based on self-similarity feature extractions across multiple transformed domains
Kuo Chu Lee, Hasan Timucin Ozdemir. (2009). "Associative vector storage system supporting fast similarity search based on self-similarity feature extractions across multiple transformed domains", US 7,610,604 (September 1, 2009).
Content based secure rendezvous chaotic routing system for ultra high speed mobile communications in ad hoc network environment
Kuo Chu Lee, Hasan Timucin Ozdemir. (2009). "Content based secure rendezvous chaotic routing system for ultra high speed mobile communications in ad hoc network environment", US 7,567,562 (July 28, 2009).
Distributed meta data management middleware
Juan Yu, Hasan Timucin Ozdemir, Lipin Liu, Kuo Chu Lee. (2009). "Distributed meta data management middleware", US 7,567,956 (July 28, 2009).
Dynamic resource management for distributed retrieval system for security
Shuji Inoue, Kuo Chu Lee, Hasan Timucin Ozdemir. (2009). "Content based secure rendezvous chaotic routing system for ultra high speed mobile communications in ad hoc network environment", US 7,502,859 (March 10, 2009).
Secure and private ISCSI camera network
Kuo Chu Lee, Lipin Liu, Hasan Timucin Ozdemir. (2008). "Secure and private ISCSI camera network", US 7,426,743 (September 16, 2008).
Method for dynamic selection for secure and firewall friendly communication protocols between multiple distributed modules
Juan Yu, Hasan Timucin Ozdemir, Kuo Chu Lee, Shiwen Chen, Eimei Nanma. (2007). "Method for dynamic selection for secure and firewall friendly communication protocols between multiple distributed modules", US 7,237,260 (June 26, 2007).
Protocol independent communication system for mobile devices
Kuo Chu Lee, Juan Yu, Hasan Timucin Ozdemir. (2006). "Protocol independent communication system for mobile devices", US 7,089,313 (August 8, 2006).
Service and leadership
- (2018, 2013) Served on the IEEE Admission and Advancement Committee in June 2018 and November 2013.
- (2019, 2018, 2016, 2015) Reviewer for a workshop in ACM Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD).
- (2017) Reviewer for International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (for ACM KDD workshop).
- (2015, 2014) Reviewer for ITS 2014 and ITS 2015 Conferences.
- (1998) Elected Graduate Student Representative on College Tenure and Promotions Committee (Fall 1998 and Spring 1999)
Affiliations and Memberships
Reports
PhD Thesis: Graph Based Evolutionary Algorithms For Transportation Problems
Hasan Timucin Ozdemir, "Graph Based Evolutionary Algorithms For Transportation Problems", Doctor of Philosophy in Computer and Information Science in the Graduate School of Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA, April 27, 2001.
New Systems Technologies and Software Products for HPCC: Volume III - High Performance Commodity Computing on the Pragmatic Object Web
Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski, Hasan T. Ozdemir and Shrideep Pallickara. (1998). "New Systems Technologies and Software Products for HPCC: Volume III - High Performance Commodity Computing on the Pragmatic Object Web", Technology Assessment Report for RCI, Ltd., October 14, 1998.
JWORB - Java Web Object Request Broker for Commodity Software based Visual Dataflow Metacomputing Programming Environment
Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski, Hasan T. Ozdemir. (1998). "JWORB - Java Web Object Request Broker for Commodity Software based Visual Dataflow Metacomputing Programming Environment", in NPAC Technical Report, February, 1998.
Master Thesis Work: Semi Automatic Karyotyping System
H. Timucin Ozdemir, "Semi Automatic Karyotyping System", Hacettepe University Master Thesis Work, Ankara, Turkey, August 20, 1994.
Skills
- Skill 1
- Skill 2
- Sub-skill 2.1
- Sub-skill 2.2
- Sub-skill 2.3
- Skill 3