soner [at] uchicago [dot] edu
Department of Computer Science
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60637
I am a PhD student working at the
Distributed Systems Laboratory,
under the supervision of Professor
Ian Foster.
I work in the area of computer systems, particularly loosely coupled distributed application frameworks like Hadoop, DryadLINQ and Swift.
I previously worked on developing a fast framework for statistical text mining using Map Reduce and parallel databases. I'm currently interested in mining
large graphs with data intensive parallel processing frameworks.
Please e-mail me to request a copy of my resume for detailed descriptions of the past projects I worked on.
- In progress: 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
- 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
- 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
- Quan Tran Pham, Atilla Soner Balkir, 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