Hakan Kardes Contact: hkardes@cse.unr.edu hknkrds@gmail.com

I'm currently a Principal Scientist at inome.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Big Data, Record Linkage, Data mining, Graph Theory, Social networks, and Internet measurements.

PUBLICATIONS:

• Hakan Kardes, Mehmet H. Gunes, and Kamil Sarac. Graph Based Induction of Unresponsive Routers in Internet Topologies. Computer Networks, 81:178-200, 2015.

• G Sujatha Das, Xiang Li, Ang Sun, Hakan Kardes, and Xin Wang. Person-Name Parsing for Linking User Web Profiles. The 18th ACM International Workshop on Web and Databases(WebDB 2015) in conjunction with 2015 ACM SIGMOD/PODS. Melbourne, Australia. May 31st, 2015.

• Xiang Li, Hakan Kardes, Xin Wang and Ang Sun. HMM-based Address Parsing with Massive Synthetic Training Data Generation. The 4th International Workshop on Location and the Web(LocWeb2014) in conjunction with 23rd International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2014). Shanghai, China. Nov 3rd, 2014.

• Xiang Li, Hakan Kardes, Xin Wang and Ang Sun. HMM-based Address Parsing: Efficiently Parsing Billions of Addresses on MapReduce. 22nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2014). Dallas, Texas, USA. November 4-7, 2014.

• Xin Wang, Ang Sun, Hakan Kardes, Siddharth Agrawal, Lin Chen, and Andrew Borthwick. Probabilistic Estimates of Attribute Statistics and Match Likelihood for People Entity Resolution. The Second IEEE Big Humanities Data Workshop, in conjunction with IEEE Big Data 2014. Washington DC, USA, Oct 27th.

• Hakan Kardes, Siddharth Agrawal, Xin Wang and Ang Sun. CCF: Fast and Scalable Connected Component Computation in MapReduce. IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2014). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. February 3-6, 2014.

• Hakan Kardes, Deepak Konidena, Siddharth Agrawal, Micah Huff and Ang Sun. Graph-based Approaches for Organization Entity Resolution in MapReduce. TextGraphs-8: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing Workshop at EMNLP 2013, Seattle, USA, October 18, 2013.

• Hakan Kardes, Abdullah Sevincer, M.H. Gunes, and Murat Yuksel. Research Funding Networks: A Case Study of NSF Grants. Social Network Analysis and Mining. Lecture Notes in Social Networks: State of the Art Applications of Social Network Analysis, Springer. 2014.

• Bill McNeill, Hakan Kardes, and Andrew Borthwick. Dynamic Record Blocking: Efficient Linking of Massive Databases in MapReduce. 10th International Workshop on Quality in Databases (QDB), in conjunction with VLDB 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, August 27th, 2012.

• Hakan Kardes, Abdullah Sevincer, M.H. Gunes, and Murat Yuksel. Six Degrees of Separation among US Researchers. The 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining(ASONAM), Istanbul, Turkey, Aug 26-29, 2012.

• Hakan Kardes, Talha Oz, and Mehmet H. Gunes. Cheleby: A Subnet-level Internet Topology Mapping System. 4th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS), Banglore, India, Jan 3-7, 2012.

• Hakan Kardes, Talha Oz, David Shelly, and M. H. Gunes. Cheleby: An Internet Topology Mapper. ISMA 2010 AIMS-3 Workshop on Active Internet Measurements, UCSD Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, CA, USA, February 9-11 2011.

• Hakan Kardes, and M. H. Gunes. Structural Graph Indexing for Mining Complex Networks. IEEE ICDCS 2010 Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks for Practitioners, Genoa, ITALY, June 21 2010.

• Hakan Kardes, and M. H. Gunes. Structural Graph Indexing for Mining Complex Networks. NetSci 2010 The International School And Conference On Network Science, Boston, MA, May 10-14 2010. (poster)

• Hakan Kardes, and M. H. Gunes. A Recursive Graph Mining Approach for Large Scale Networks. Tri State 2010, Incline Village, NV, USA, April 6-8 2010. (poster)

• Talha Oz, Hakan Kardes, and M. H. Gunes. Cheleby: Subnet-level Internet Mapper. ISMA 2010 AIMS-2 Workshop on Active Internet Measurements, UCSD Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, CA, USA, February 8-10 2010.

• Hakan Kardes. Graph Data Mining to Construct Sampled Internet Topology Maps. (MS Thesis).

EDUCATION:

• University of Nevada, Reno

• PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, December 2012

• Thesis Adviser: Dr. Mehmet H. Gunes

• Area of Study: Complex Networks

• University of Nevada, Reno

• M.S., Computer Science and Engineering, December 2010

• Thesis Title: Graph Data Mining to Construct Sampled Internet Topology Maps.

• Thesis Adviser: Dr. Mehmet H. Gunes

• Area of Study: Internet Measurements

• Bogazici University

• B.S., Computer Engineering, June 2009

• Senior Project: Unsupervised Segmentation of Words into Morphemes.

• Senior Project Adviser: Dr. Tunga Gungor

• Area of Study: Speech Processing

AWARDS AND HONORS:

• Phi Kappa Phi 2012

• COMSNETS 2012-ACM SIGCOMM Travel Grant.

• UNR Outstanding International Graduate Student Award.

• NSF EPSCoR Cyberinfrastructure Travel Grant.

• ICDCS'10 Travel Grant. (supported by NSF)

• Graduate Student Association(GSA) 2010 Travel Grant

• DRCN'09 Student Travel Award.

• Education USA Travel Grant, Summer 2009.(travel expenses to USA, Sevis and Visa expenses)

• Haci Omer SABANCI scholarship during B.S, 2004-2009.

• Ranking top 0.01% in Turkey in University Entrance Exam 2004 among 1.8 million participants.

• Ranking 1st in the Quiz Show organized by TRT-GAP TV among all of the primary schools in South East Region of TURKEY.

• Ranking 50th in Turkey in Government Scholarship Exam 1999 among over 1 million participants.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

• University of Nevada, Reno

Teaching Assistant

• Grader for CS 790g: Complex Networks

• Fall 2010, Fall 2011

• Responsible for grading of the labs and assignments.

• Instructor for CS 241 Lab: Computational Methods of Engineering

• Fall 2009 (4 sections), Spring 2010 (4 sections).

• Sample graded material and student evaluations available upon request

• Responsible for weekly labs, quizzes and their grading.

• Bogazici University

Teaching Assistant September 2008 to June 2009

• Instructor for ENG 101 Lab: Introduction to Computers

• Fall 2008 (4 sections), Spring 2009 (4 sections).

• Responsible for weekly labs, quizzes and their grading.

SERVICES:

• Reviewer for INFOCOM 2010, GI 2010, DCNET 2010, INFOCOM 2011, PAM 2011.

• UNR Graduate Student Assosiation (GSA) Council Member. (2011-2012)

• UNR CSE Department Colloquia & Symposia Technical & Logistics Manager.(2010-2011)

• President of VfEC (Volunteers for Education Club).

• Student representative of Bogazici University Computer Engineering Department.(2007-2008)

ORGANIZATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS:

• IEEE, ACM.