Evrim received her MS and PhD in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) in December, 2006 and May, 2008. She got her BS in Computer Engineering from Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey) in July, 2003.  (see CV)

Her research interests include multiway data analysis, data mining, time series analysis and computational neuroscience.

Publications:

Journals

• Unsupervised Multiway Data Analysis: A Literature Survey (E. Acar and B.Yener), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 21(1): 6-20, 2009.
• New Exploratory Clustering Tool, (E. Acar, R.Bro and B.Schmidt), Journal of Chemometrics, 22(1): 91-100, 2008.
• Resolving the Sign Ambiguity in the Singular Value Decomposition (R.Bro, E. Acar and T.G.Kolda), Journal of Chemometrics, 22(2):135-140, 2008.
• Multiway Analysis of Epilepsy Tensors, (E. Acar, C.A.Bingol, H.Bingol, R.Bro and B.Yener), Bioinformatics, 23(13): i10-i18, 2007.
• Proteomics Reveals Multiple Routes to the Osteogenic Phenotype in Mesenchymal Stem Cells, (K.P.Bennett, C. Bergeron, E. Acar, R.F. Klees, S.L. Vandenberg, B.Yener and G.E. Plopper), BMC Genomics, 8(1):380, 2007.

Conferences

• Link Prediction on Evolving Data using Matrix and Tensor Factorizations (E. Acar, T.G.Kolda, and D.M.Dunlavy) ICDM 2009 Workshop Proc. for the 1st Workshop on Large-Scale Data Mining: Theory and Applications, 2009.
• Seizure Recognition on Epilepsy Feature Tensor, (E. Acar, C.A.Bingol, H.Bingol, R.Bro and B.Yener), Proc. 29th Int. Conf. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007.
• Computational Analysis of Epileptic Focus Localization, (E. Acar, C.A.Bingol, H.Bingol and B.Yener), Proc. 4th Int. Conf. IASTED Biomedical Engineering, 2006.
• Collective Sampling and Analysis of High-order Tensors for Chatroom Communications, (E. Acar, S.A.Camtepe and B.Yener), Proc. IEEE Int. Conf on Intelligence and Security Informatics, LNCS, Vol. 3975, pp. 213-224, 2006.
• Modeling and Multiway Analysis of Chatroom Tensors, (E. Acar, S.A.Camtepe, M.Krishnamoorthy and B.Yener), Proc. IEEE Int. Conf on Intelligence and Security Informatics, LNCS, Vol. 3495, pp. 256-268, 2005.

Technical Reports

• Scalable Tensor Factorizations with Missing Data (E. Acar, T.G.Kolda, D.M.Dunlavy, and M. Morup ), SAND2009-6764, October, 2009.
• An Optimization Approach for Fitting Canonical Tensor Decompositions, (E. Acar, T.G.Kolda, and D.M.Dunlavy), SAND2009-0857, February, 2009.
• Modeling and Detection of Epileptic Seizures using Multi-modal Data Construction and Analysis, (E. Acar, C.A.Bingol, H.Bingol, R.Bro, A.L.Ritaccio, B.Yener), RPI Tech Report 08-02, 2008.

Some conferences with sessions on tensors:  

• AIM Workshop: Computational Optimization for Tensor Decompositions, Palo Alto, CA, March 29-April 2, 2010.
• SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra , Monterey, CA, October 26-29, 2009 (Minisymposium Speaker).
• SIAM Annual Meeting 2009, Denver, CO, July 6-10, 2009 (Minisymposium organizer and speaker)
• TRICAP 2009, Nuria, Spain, June 14-19, 2009 (Speaker)
• SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Miami, FL, March 2-6, 2009 (Minisymposium organizer and speaker)
• NSF Workshop : Future Directions in Tensor-based Computation and Modeling, Arlington, VA, Feb. 20-21, 2009 (Speaker)
• KDD 2008 Workshop on Data Mining using Matrices and Tensors, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 24, 2008 (Speaker)
• SIAM Annual Meeting 2008, Town & Country Resort Hotel, San Diego, CA, July 7-11, 2008 (Minisymposium Speaker)
• ICIAM 2007, Zurich, Switzerland, July 16-20, 2007 (Minisymposium Speaker)
• Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets, Stanford University, CA, June 25-28, 2006 (Poster Presenter)
• TRICAP 2006, Crete, Greece, June 4-9, 2006.

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