Ali Yazgan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Address: (Work) Center for Language and Speech Processing Johns Hopkins University 400A Barton Hall, 3400 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218 (Home) 3215 North Charles Street Apt: 108 Baltimore, MD 21218 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Work Phone: (410) 516 54 58 Home Phone: (410) 366 15 61 Work Fax: (410) 516 50 50 E-mail: ayazgan1@jhu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Education: - PhD, (September 2002-Present) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Advisor: Dr. Sanjeev Khudanpur - BS with Honors, (September 1997-July 2002) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul-TURKEY Senior Project: Design and Implementation of a Vulnerability Assessment Tool for System Security ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Research and Teaching: - Teaching Assistant for Circuits course (Sept 2002-Dec 2002), Johns Hopkins University - Teaching Assistant for Fiber Optics and Devices course (Jan 2003-Present), Johns Hopkins University - A project about Lossless and Near Lossless Compression of Images using Successive Refinements of Pixel PDFs, Bogazici University - A project about Speech Enhancement using Spectral Noise Subtraction, Bogazici University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Work Experience: Summer Intern (June 2002-August 2002), koc.net Telecommunications Services, Istanbul-TURKEY Dept:Network Security Summer Intern June (2001-August 2001), Vestel Electronics, Manisa-TURKEY Dept:Production Engineering ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Skills: Languages: C, C++/ Visual C++, Perl, Java (inter.) Packages: Matlab, MS Visual C++ 6.0,Visual Cafe, MS Office Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Main Courses: Digital Signal Processing, Image Processing, Information Theory, Random Signal Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction from Speech and Text, Information Retrieval and Web Agents ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visa Status: Turkish Citizen, F-1 Visa (Student) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hobbies: Playing basketball, playing billiards, movies, reading history