soner [at] cs [dot] uchicago [dot] edu
Department of Computer Science
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60637
I am a former PhD student from the
Distributed Systems Laboratory
advised by Professor
Ian Foster.
My research focus is in the area of computer systems, particularly loosely coupled distributed application frameworks like MapReduce and their applications to large scale graph mining algorithms. I received my PhD degree in December, 2013 and joined Google. I currently live in the San Fransisco Bay Area.
Please e-mail me to request a copy of my resume.
- 2013: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
PhD, Computer Science
- 2009: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
MS, Computer Science
- 2007: Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
BS, Computer Engineering
- Networks and Distributed Systems
- Scientific Applications of MapReduce
- Large Scale Parallel Databases
- Graph Mining
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Atilla Soner Balkir, Hüseyin Oktay, Ian Foster - "Estimating Graph Distance and Centrality on Shared Nothing Architectures"
, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2014, Volume 27, Issue 14 pdf
- Atilla Soner Balkir, Ian Foster, Andrey Rzhetsky - "A Distributed Look-up Architecture For Text Mining Applications Using MapReduce"
, Super Computing, 2011, Seattle, WA, USA
- Jaliya Ekanayake, Atilla Soner Balkir, Jared Jackson, Wei Lu, Roger Barga - A Scalable Communication Runtime for Clouds
, IEEE Cloud - The Fourth International Conference on Cloud Computing, 2011, Washington DC, USA
- Jaliya Ekanayake, Atilla Soner Balkir, Thilina Gunarathne, Geoffrey Fox, Christophe Poulain, Nelson Araujo, Roger Barga - "DryadLINQ for Scientific Analyses"
, Fifth IEEE International Conference on eScience, 2009, Oxford, UK
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Atilla Soner Balkir , Hüseyin Oktay, Ian Foster - "Large Scale Graph Mining Algorithms with MapReduce"
NetSci 2012 - International Conference on Network Science
- Contributed Talk
- Hüseyin Oktay, Atilla Soner Balkir , Ian Foster, David D. Jensen - "Distance Estimation for Very Large Networks using MapReduce and Network Structure Indices"
, Workshop on Information Networks, (WIN Workshop), 2011, New York, NY
- Poster Presentation
- Atilla Soner Balkir , Ian Foster, Andrey Rzhetsky - "A Distributed Look-up Architecture For Text Mining Applications Using MapReduce"
, HPDC - The 20th International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2011, San Jose, CA, USA
- Poster Presentation and Short Paper in Proceedings
- Atilla Soner Balkir, Quan Tran Pham, Jing Tie, Ian Foster, Mike Wilde, Ioan Raicu - "Data Intensive Scalable Computing on TeraGrid: A Comparison of MapReduce and Swift", TeraGrid 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada
- Poster Presentation
- Atilla Soner Balkir, Emin Senay - "Earthquake Seismic Data Server on Grid", Grid Portals and Data Management Techniques for Earth Science Applications,Presentation, 2007, Cagliari, Italy
TA for the following classes:
- Unix Systems Programming
- Networks and Distributed Systems
- Distributed Objects Practicum
- Big Data
- Introduction to WWW Programming II - Java and SQL
- Summer 2010: Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA - Focus: Windows Azure