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 Labratory,
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.
My current research focuses on developping a fast framework for statistical text mining using MapReduce and parallel databases.
Please e-mail me to request a copy of my resume for detailed descriptions of the past projects I worked on.
- 2007 -: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
PhD, Computer Science
- 2002 - 2007: Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
BS, Computer Engineering
- Networks and Distributed Systems
- Scientific Applications of MapReduce
- Large Scale Parallel Databases
- 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
- 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, Poster, Las Vegas, Nevada
- 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, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009
- Networks and Distributed Systems, Winter 2009
- Distributed Objects Practicum, Spring 2009
- Summer 2009: Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA