Ali Kemal Sinop

PhD Student
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
15213 Pittsburgh, PA USA
 
asinop AT cs.cmu.edu

 

 

   Welcome to my homepage. I am a first year PhD student at CMU. I am working with Prof. Gary Miller.

 

  
Education   PhD student at Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (2007-present),  
    MS in Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelpha, PA (2004-2005),  
    BSc in Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey (2000-2004).  
       
Work Experience   Technical Associate at Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ (2005-2007).  
       
Research Interests  

Spectral Graph Theory and Combinatorial Optimization with applications to Computer Vision.

  
       
Resume   PDF  
       
Recent Publications   Leo Grady and Ali Kemal Sinop, "Fast Approximate Random Walker Segmentation Using Eigenvector Precomputation", To appear in CVPR 2008.  
    Ali Kemal Sinop and Leo Grady, "A Seeded Image Segmentation Framework Unifying Graph Cuts and Random Walker Which Yields A New Algorithm", ICCV 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 14-20, 2007 (Oral presentation) PDF  
    Ali Kemal Sinop and Leo Grady, "Unitialized, Globally Optimal, Graph-Based Rectilinear Shape Segmentation - The Opposing Metrics Method", ICCV 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 14-20, 2007 (Poster presentation) PDF  
       

Courses

   Graduate Algorithms (TAing, Spring 2008)  
  Advanced Approximation Algorithms (Spring 2008)  
    Machine Learning Theory (Spring 2008)  
    Special Topics in Combinatorial Optimization (Fall 2007)  
    Real Analysis / Lebesgue Integration (Fall 2007)  
    Spectral Graph Theory (Fall 2007)  
       

Personal

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Hobbies

   I like building model airplanes and I like listening to classical Turkish music and Turkish folk music.  
    Check the link below for an excellent sample to classical Turkish music:  
    The Story of a Young Lady (Göksel Baktagir - Küçük Hanımın Öyküsü)  
    I am also learning how to play baglama (a stringed Turkish musical instrument).  

 

      

Biography

   I was born in Konya, Turkey in 1982. After graduating from Konya Meram Anatolian High School in 2000, I entered Bilkent University in Ankara and received my B.S. degree from the Department of Computer Engineering in 2004. I continued my studies in the Computer and Information Science Department at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and received my M.S. degree in 2005. Until 2007 I worked at Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, New Jersey as a technical associate under the supervision of Dr. Leo Grady. As of 2007, I am pursuing my PhD degree in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.