Alper Okcan
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I am a PhD student at the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University. My advisor is Mirek Riedewald. I am interested in data management for large data sets and distributed systems. I received my undergraduate and Master of Science degrees in Computer Science from METU under the supervision of Asuman Dogac. I was also a member of the Software Research & Development Center (SRDC). |
Research |
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Recently, I am working on techniques that enable efficient parallel execution of queries used for discovery of interesting patterns
in massive high-dimensional data sets.
I have been working on the prototype development of a pattern search engine for complex data mining models. This prototype generates and ranks summaries on-the-fly for a data mining model, which was trained on a large high-dimensional crowd-sourced data set containing bird sightings reported by citizen scientists through the eBird project. Processing happens in parallel on a 44-core cluster running the Hadoop version of MapReduce. |
Publications |
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Okcan A., Riedewald M., Panda B., and Fink D. Scolopax: Exploratory Analysis of Scientific Data. In Proceedings of the VLDB Endownment (PVLDB), Vol. 6, No. 12 2013.  Processing theta-joins using MapReduceAlper Okcan, Mirek Riedewald SIGMOD '11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Management of data, 2011 Dogac A. , Kabak Y. , Namli T. , Okcan A. Collaborative Business Process Support in eHealth: Integrating IHE Profiles through ebXML Business Process Specification Language. In IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol.12, No.6, pp. 754-762, November 2008. [ .PDF ] Dogac A. , Bicer V. , Okcan A. Collaborative Business Process Support in IHE XDS through ebXML Business Processes. In Proceedings of International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2006), Atlanta, USA, April , 2006. [ .PDF ] |
Teaching |
I have been a TA for the following courses:
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