Sureyya Tarkan
Graduate Student
Education
| Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science | |
| University of Maryland | College Park, MD |
| Advisor: Prof. Ben Shneiderman | |
| Research: Medical Informatics Applications | |
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| M.S. in Computer Science | May 2009 |
| University of Maryland | College Park, MD |
| Advisor: Asst. Prof. Vibha Sazawal | |
| Scholarly Paper: Formal Specification of a Kitchen Environment | |
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| B.S. in Computer Engineering | May 2006 |
| Bilkent University | Ankara, Turkey |
Experience
Internship
| IBM Almaden Research Center | June - August, 2010 |
Teaching Assistantship
| Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction (CMSC 434) | Spring 2010 |
| Object-Oriented Programming II (CMSC 132) | Spring 2008, Fall 2006 |
| Object-Oriented Programming I (CMSC 131) | Fall 2007, Spring 2007 |
Publications
- S. Tarkan, C. Plaisant, B. Shneiderman, A. Z. Hettinger. Improving Timely Clinical Lab Test Result Management: A Generative XML Process Model to Support Medical Care, University of Maryland, Technical Report, HCIL-2011-15, July 2011.
- S. Tarkan, C. Plaisant, B. Shneiderman, A. Z. Hettinger. Reducing Missed Laboratory Results: Defining Temporal Responsibility, Generating User Interfaces for Test Process Tracking, and Retrospective Analyses to Identify Problems, AMIA Annual Fall Symposium 2011.
- S. Tarkan, V. Sazawal, A. Druin, E. Golub, E. Bonsignore, G. Walsh, Z. Atrash. Toque: Designing a Cooking-based Programming Language for and with Children, Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems, April 10-15, 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- S. Tarkan, V. Sazawal. Chief Chefs of Z to Alloy: Using A Kitchen Example to Teach Alloy with Z, 2nd Int. FME Conference on Teaching Formal Methods, November 6, 2009, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
- S. Tarkan, V. Sazawal, A. Druin, E. Foss, E. Golub, L. Hatley, T. Khatri, S. Massey, G. Walsh, and G. Torres. Designing a Novice Programming Environment with Children, University of Maryland, Technical Report, HCIL-2009-03, January 2009.
- S. Tarkan. Children's Design Ideas for a Novice Programming Tool, 40th Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium, March 6, 2009 - Poster session.
- S. Tarkan, O. Udrea, J. McCann, and J. Foster. Static Deadlock Detection in MPI Programs Using Symbolic Execution and Model Checking, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, October 17-20, 2007 - Technical Poster Presentation.
- A. Don, E. Zheleva, M. Gregory, S. Tarkan, L. Auvil, T. Clement, B. Shneiderman, C. Plaisant. Discovering interesting usage patterns in text collections: integrating text mining with visualization, Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management, November 06-10, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal.
Coursework
| Graduate Seminar in Computer Science (CMSC 798) | Spring 2009 |
| Special Topics in Information Studies: Communities of Practice (LBSC 708P) | Spring 2009 |
| Empirical Research Methods for Computer Science (CMSC 634) | Fall 2008 |
| Advanced Computer Graphics (CMSC 740) | Fall 2008 |
| Database Management Systems (CMSC 724) | Spring 2008 |
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Term Project: Routing Policies for Eddies |
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| Computational Linguistics I (CMSC 723) | Fall 2007 |
| Machine Learning (CMSC 726) | Fall 2007 |
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Term Project: The Effect of Pruning on Different Types of Data |
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| Information Visualization (CMSC 734) | Spring 2007 |
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Term Project: FeatureLens - Interactive Visualization of Text Patterns |
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| Computational Geometry (CMSC 754) | Spring 2007 |
| Program Analysis and Understanding (CMSC 631) | Fall 2006 |
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Term Project: Applying Static Methods to Detect Deadlocks in Parallel Programs |
Contact
University of Maryland
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