Faris Serdar Taşel

    E-mail: fst@cankaya.edu.tr | fst@codecola.net
    Web Page: http://academic.cankaya.edu.tr/~fst | http://codecola.net/
    Office: +90-312-284-4500 / 4023
    Address: Computer Engineering Department, Cankaya University
                    TR-06530 Yüzüncüyıl Balgat/Ankara Turkey

Personal Information:

• Date of Birth: August 27th, 1981

• Nationality: Turkish

• Gender: Male

Educational Background:

• Middle East Technical University, Department of Medical Informatics, Ph.D, Ankara (2009-Cont.)

• Cankaya University, Department of Computer Engineering, M.S., Ankara (2005-2008)
  (Scholarships: Research Assistantship in the Deparment of Computer Engineering)
  (Graduated with a GPA of 4.00)

• Cankaya University, Deparment of Computer Engineering, B.S., Ankara (2001-2004)
  (Scholarships: Received Academic Scholarship)
  (Graduated as an Honour Student with a GPA of 3.18)

• Cankaya University, Deparment of Mathematics and Computer, B.S., Ankara (1999-2001)
  (Scholarships: Received Academic Scholarship)
  (Left by Undergraduate Transfer to Computer Engineering Department)

• İzmir Atatürk Highschool, İzmir, Turkey (1995-1999)

Work Experiences:

• Currently working as a research assistant in the Deparment of Computer Engineering, Cankaya University.

• Completed the master thesis on "3D Reconstruction of a Scene using Stereo Images" in 2008.

• Assisted the labs of the courses: "Fundamentals of Computer Engineering", "Logic Design", "Algorithms and Programming", "Computer Organization", "Data Structures", "Data Management and File Structure", "Database Systems", "Microprocessors", "Programming Language Concepts".

Projects:

• Artifical Intelligence Project: Finding optimal solutions for Sokoban mazes. SPS tool: http://codecola.net/sps/

• Database Project: A database for solutions of Sokoban maze collections. SSDB: http://codecola.net/ssdb/

• Game Project: An online multiplayer shoot 'em up game. Blackhole: http://codecola.net/bh/

• Game Project: Porting Blackhole game to Macromedia Flash.

• Network Project: A tool for measuring delay times through routers. NetMon: http://codecola.net/netmon/

• Web Project: Developing a website of expandable stories by users. Macera Tüneli: http://www.codecola.net/mt/

• Artificial Intelligence Project: Expanding the whole tree of XOX game for min-max algorithm and developing XOX game (XOXMaster).

• Web project: Developing a tool to compute statistics of a website by analyzing logs of webserver (NetLog)

• Developing a tool for offline navigation using pre-fetched maps and communicating with external GPS device using NMEA protocol (FstMap).

• Developing a software for managing incoming and outgoing documents for the document office of The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Turkey. (ESCode).

• Game Project: Developing an online multiplayer snake game (Blockade).

• Developing a tetris game using Intel Assembler and artificial intelligence for computer to play and make suggestions.

• Various Image Processing tools using OpenCV.

• Developing "3D Reconstruction of a Scene using Stereo Images" application for master's thesis.

• Developing an application to create cloud of points using 2D images taken from multiple views.

• Developing an application to create surface for a point cloud using Voronoi Filtering.

• Developing an application for interactive augmented reality by detecting interactions between real and virtual objects using OpenGL and OpenCV.

• Developing an application to detect and locate licence plate of a vehicle.

• Developing an application to estimate the speed of a vehicle in a video stream.

• Developing an application for secure file transfer over internet using RSA.

• Developing a daemon of file server and client for linux operating system.

• Parallelizing Fermat's Factorization Algorithm using MPI tools.

• Developing a simple expert system for personality test.

• Database management system for loaning and storing items of a library.

Interest Areas: Computer Vision, Image Processing, Audio Processing, Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence.

Technical Abilities:

• Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, Unix, Linux, Amiga Workbench.

• Programming Languages/Libraries: C/C++, Delphi, C#, Java, Visual Basic, JavaScript, ASP, PHP, Intel/Zilog/PIC/MOS Assembly, Haskell, ML, Prolog, Matlab, OpenGL, OpenCV, MPI.

• Applications: MS Visual Studio, Borland Delphi, Exsys Corvid, MS Office, PaintShop Pro, Photoshop, Matlab, PSpice, Orcad, Macro Assembler, Imagine, Reason.

Languages: Turkish (native), English (advanced), German (basic).

Hobbies and Interests:

• Advanced electric guitar player, gave concerts in METU, composing songs.

• Playing chess, Solving Rubik's cube with various sizes and Sudoku.

• Movies, Desktop RPG, Computer Games, Graphics, Musics, Mods and Cars.

• Retro Computers: C16, C64, Amiga.