CV

Personal information
First name(s) / Surname(s)	Kadim Taşdemir
Telephone(s) E-mail	+90-546- 223 5248 kadimt@gmail.com
Work experience Dates Occupation or position held Name and address of employer Main activities and responsibilities	01 October 2012- 05 August 2016 Associate Professor, Computer Engineering Antalya International University Research /Teaching Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (2013-2017), 100,000€ for development of intelligent automated methods to monitor agricultural resources (under EC CAP). TUBITAK Career Grant (2013-2015), ~147,373 TL (62,500€) for unsupervised clustering of large datasets TUBITAK Grant (2014-2017), 727,309TL, (~250,000€) Founding Chair of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Turkey Chapter
Dates Occupation or position held Name and address of employer Main activities and responsibilities Dates Occupation or position held Name and address of employer Main activities and responsibilities	01 October 2009 – 30 September 2012 Postdoctoral researcher Monitoring Agricultural Resources Unit (MARS), EC Joint Research Centre, Via E. Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy Automated methods for assessment of land parcel identification system(LPIS) Development of advanced control methods for monitoring agricultural resources using remote sensing images Developed a hierarchical clustering method using topology-based similarity, for automated partitioning of high-dimensional, large datasets, with self-organizing maps. Developed a novel approximate spectral clustering by a local density-based similarity. Developed supervised classification methods for orchard detection, by merging spectral and spatial information, based on self-organizing maps.  11 August 2008 – 30 September 2009 Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Yasar University, Ağaclı Yol 35-37 Bornova Izmir Turkiye Lecturer: Image Processing, Neural Networks, Digital Signal Processing, Introduction to Programming Researcher: Machine learning methods for knowledge discovery from high-dimensional, large datasets, particularly from remote-sensing images
Dates	1 August 2003- 15 June 2008
Occupation or position held Name and address of employer	Research assistant, Electrical and Computer Engineering Rice University, 6100 Main St. Houston TX 77005 USA
Main activities and responsibilities	Research on detailed knowledge discovery and data mining  through visualization and segmentation methods with neural computation (NNG05GA94G: Applied Infor. Systems Research Program, NASA) Developed an effective visualization for Self-Organizing maps for precise knowledge discovery Developed an advanced measure for quality evaluation of different clustering methods. Developed an automated clustering algorithm for unsupervised clustering of high-dimensional large datasets
Dates	1 September 2001-1 August 2003
Occupation or position held Name and address of employer	Research Assistant, Computer Engineering Istanbul Technical University, Ayazaga Kampusu, Istanbul, Turkey
Main activities and responsibilities	Research on character and face recognition (License plate recognition project for Turkish customs, funded by The Scientific and Technological Council of Turkey, TUBITAK) Analysis of the effects of combining different types of features and classifiers to achieve a better character recognition (MSc Thesis) A combined (PCA + illumination source) algorithm to reduce the illumination effect in face recognition
Education
Dates	1 August 2003 – 15 June 2008
Title of qualification awarded	PhD
Principal subjects  covered	Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Name and address of university	Rice University, 6100 Main St. Houston TX 77005 USA
Dates	1 September 2001- 1 January 2004
Title of qualification awarded	MSc
Principal subjects  covered	Dept. of Computer Science
Name and address of university	Istanbul Technical University, Ayazaga Kampusu, Istanbul, TURKEY
Dates	1 September 1997- 5 July 2001
Title of qualification awarded	BS
Principal subjects  covered	Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Name and address of university	Bogazici University, Istanbul, TURKEY
Personal skills and competences
Mother tongue(s)	Turkish
Other language(s)	English, Italian (intermediate), German (beginner)
Self-assessment		Understanding		Speaking			Writing
		Listening	Reading	Spoken interaction	Spoken production
English		Advanced	Advanced	Advanced	Advanced		Advanced
Italian		Intermediate	Intermediate	Intermediate	Intermediate		Intermediate
German		Beginner	Beginner	Beginner	Beginner		Beginner
Social skills and competences	2015- Co-organizer of 2nd National Workshop on Remote Sensing Signal and Image Processing2014- Co-organizer of 1st National Workshop on Remote Sensing Signal and Image Processing 2012- Founding Chair of IEEE GRSS Turkey Chapter 2005–2008  President of Rice International Student Association 2004–2006  President of Rice Turkish Student Association
Computer skills & competences	Operating Systems:  Windows, Unix, Linux Programming Languages: C, C++, Visual C++, Java, IDLApplications: MATLAB, ArchGIS, LabView, Khoros, Latex
Honors / Awards	2014 IEEE GRSS Chapter Excellence Award as Turkey Chapter 2011 IES Best Young Scientist Award 2011 GeoCAP Best Poster presentation award 2007  Rice University - Dean’s Travel Grant for IJCNN 2007  Full student sponsorship for the Int.Conf. on Data Mining (from the conference organizers, one of the 5 sponsorships) 2006   Rice University - “Robert Lowry Patten Award” for the contributions to graduate student life2005   Rice University – Dean’s Travel Grant for WSOM 2003   Rice University Fellowship 1997   Bogazici University Fellowship 1997   Ranked in upper 0.01% in OYS (an SAT like exam in Turkey) 1997   Top student in high school graduation 1996   Turkish Ministry of Education Honor Certificate
Member/Chair Editorial Board Reviewer	Founding and Current Chair, IEEE GRSS Turkey Chapter IEEE Member IEEE Computational Intelligence Society IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Scientific committee member for        Workshop on Self Organizing Maps (WSOM 2009, 2011)       Recent Advances in Space Technologies 2013       SIU2013 Elsevier ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks IEEE Transactions on Image Processing IEEE TGARS IEEE JSTARS IEEE Transactions on Systems Man Cybernetics Part B IEEE Signal Processing Letters Elsevier Neurocomputing Elsevier Pattern Recognition Elsevier Pattern Recognition Letters Elsevier ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing International Journal of Remote Sensing
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