Pinar Yanardag

Current

• Researcher at Bogazici University

Past

• Team Leader and Researcher at The National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (TUBITAK UEKAE)
• Mentor at Google
• Software Engineer at Parkyeri

• System Administrator at Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University Computer Center

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Education

• Bogaziçi Üniversitesi
• Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi
• Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Portfolio

Pinar Yanardag’s Summary

Curriculum vitae (CV): http://pinguar.org/pinar-yanardag-cv.pdf

Pinar Yanardag’s Specialties:

Open Source and Free Software; Project Management, Team Leadership, Mentoring

Machine Learning; Social and Mobile Networks, Pattern Recognition, Bioinformatics

Security; Vulnerability detection, Vulnerability fixing, Advisory Writing

Agile Software Development; Python/Django, Ruby/Rails

User Interface Design; Qt, Gtk

Pinar Yanardag’s Experience

• Researcher

  Bogazici University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  December 2009 — Present (2 months)

  I devote myself to the field of machine learning and I have joined the Perceptual Intelligence Lab (PiLab) at Bogazici University. I am currently working on my master's thesis, "An Interactive Web-Based Machine Learning Implementation" under the advisement of Prof. Ethem Alpaydin.
  
  The project involves the development of a powerful online machine learning framework and implementation of advanced machine learning algorithms in Python.
  
  http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/pilab

• Team Leader and Researcher

  The National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (TUBITAK UEKAE)

  (Government Agency; Research industry)

  November 2007 — November 2009 (2 years 1 month)

  While also working as a Python/Qt developer, I lead The Pardus Security Team which was responsible for ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users by detecting and fixing threats and vulnerabilities in approximately 4000 software packages within Pardus.
  
  Pardus Linux distribution is deployed by over 150.000 individuals and it is installed on numerous clients and servers of government offices.
  
  During my leadership, I worked on improving the quality of the team and processes and also established international contacts and worked directly with vendors via vendor-sec.
  
  http://www.uekae.tubitak.gov.tr
  http://www.pardus.org.tr
  http://security.pardus.org.tr

• Mentor

  Google

  (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

  May 2009 — September 2009 (5 months)

  I mentored two students during Google Summer of Code 2008 and Google Summer of Code 2009 to develop open source user interface projects.
  
  http://code.google.com/soc

• Software Engineer

  Parkyeri

  (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

  August 2007 — November 2007 (4 months)

  (Parkyeri has been selected as the fastest growing Internet company in Turkey by Deloitte in 2007)
  
  I was responsible for managing an e-commerce website and multi-tasking people in addition to coding PHP/PostgreSQL for Web 2.0 projects.
  
  http://www.parkyeri.com

• System Administrator

  Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University Computer Center

  (Computer & Network Security industry)

  June 2005 — June 2007 (2 years 1 month)

  I was a part-time system administrator and I was in charge of supporting and installing different GNU/Linux and Solaris to servers, labs and students’ computers at the university.
  
  http://bidb.comu.edu.tr

Pinar Yanardag’s Education

• Bogaziçi Üniversitesi

  Graduate , Computer Engineering , 2009 — 2010 (expected)

  http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr
  
  Dissertation Topic: "An Interactive Web-Based Machine Learning Implementation" (Advisor: Prof. Ethem Alpaydin)
  
  Courses taken: Pattern Recognition, Bioinformatics, Social Semantic Web, Software Engineering and Risk Management, Advanced Database Systems, Cloud Computing, ...

• Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi

  Graduate , Computer Science , 2008 — 2008

  (Transferred to Bogazici University)
  
  Courses taken: Advanced Artificial Intelligence, Parallel Programming, Design Patterns

• Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi

  Computer Engineering , 2003 — 2007

  GPA: 3.21 (Ranked as 2nd in the department)
  
  Graduation Project: "Signing and Verifying Packages with Public Key Cryptography" (Advisor: Dr. Necdet Yucel)

Additional Information

Pinar Yanardag’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Portfolio

Pinar Yanardag’s Interests:

Open Source and Free Software, Machine learning, Security, Social and Mobile Networks, Women in Computing

Pinar Yanardag’s Groups:

LKD (Linux Users Association of Turkey)

•    Black Hat
•    Bogazici JOBLink
•    LinuxChix
•    GSoC

Pinar Yanardag’s Honors:

Fulbright Ph.D. Scholarship, 2010-2011
Google Summer of Code Mentor, Google INC., 2008, 2009
Diversity Delegate, Google INC. Linux.Conf.au., 2009
Google Summer of Code Student, Google INC., 2007
The Most Hard-working Person of the Year , Linux Users Association of Turkey (LKD), 2007
The Most Successful Maintainer of the Year , Linux Users Association of Turkey (LKD), 2006

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