Sureyya Tarkan
Graduate Student
Bio
Born in Izmir,
Turkey.
Education
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Ph.D. in Computer Science Advisor: Asst. Prof. Vibha
Sazawal Research: End-User Programming for Children |
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M.S. in Computer Science Scholarly Paper: The
Formal Specification of a Kitchen Environment |
May 2009 |
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B.S. in Computer Engineering |
May 2006 |
picture taken by Elena Zheleva
Research and Publications
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.
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
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Graduate Seminar in Computer
Science (CMSC 798) |
Spring 2009 |
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Special Topics in Information
Studies: Communities of Practice (LBSC 708P) |
Spring 2009 |
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Empirical Research Methods for
Computer Science (CMSC 634) |
Fall 2008 |
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Advanced Computer Graphics (CMSC 740) |
Fall 2008 |
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Database Management Systems (CMSC 724) Term Project: Routing Policies for Eddies |
Spring 2008 |
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Computational Linguistics I (CMSC 723) |
Fall 2007 |
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Machine Learning (CMSC 726) Term Project: The Effect of Pruning on
Different Types of Data |
Fall 2007 |
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Information Visualization (CMSC 734) Term Project: FeatureLens
- Interactive Visualization of Text Patterns |
Spring 2007 |
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Computational Geometry (CMSC 754) |
Spring 2007 |
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Program Analysis and Understanding
(CMSC 631) Term Project: Applying Static Methods to
Detect Deadlocks in Parallel Programs |
Fall 2006 |
Teaching Assistantship
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Object-Oriented Programming II (CMSC 132) |
Spring 2008 |
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Object-Oriented Programming I (CMSC 131) |
Fall 2007 |
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Object-Oriented Programming I (CMSC 131) |
Spring 2007 |
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Object-Oriented Programming II (CMSC 132) |
Fall 2006 |
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland
3452 User Experience Lab
A.V. Williams Building
College Park, MD 20742
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