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Ali Kemal Sinop
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Welcome
to my homepage. I am a second year PhD student at CMU.
I am very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Venkatesan Guruswami and Ryan O'Donnell.
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Education |
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PhD
student at Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA (2007-present), |
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MS
in Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA (2004-2005), |
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BSc
in Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey (2000-2004). |
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Work
Experience |
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Technical
Associate at Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ (2005-2007). |
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Research
Interests |
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Hardness of Approximation |
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Publications |
Improved
Inapproximability Results for Max-k-Colorable Subgraph Problem (with
Venkatesan Guruswami). arXiv. Shorter
version appeared in APPROX2009. |
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PDF (outdated) |
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Personal |
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Hobbies |
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I
like building model airplanes and I like listening to classical Turkish music
and Turkish folk music. |
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Check
the link below for an excellent sample to classical Turkish music: |
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The
Story of a Young Lady (Göksel
Baktagir - Küçük Hanımın Öyküsü) |
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I
am also learning how to play baglama (a stringed Turkish musical instrument). |
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Biography |
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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. |
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Friends at CMU |
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