ABUZER YAKARYILMAZ

Bogazici University
Computer Engineering
Bebek, 34342, Istanbul, Turkey

abuzer[at]boun.edu.tr

+90 (212) 359 70 95
+90 (212) 287 24 61 (fax) 		ATYlogo

I am a PhD candidate. My advisor is Prof. A. C. Cem Say.

Research Interest

Sublogarithmic Space Quantum Computation; Quantum and Probabilistic Automata; Stochastic Languages

Publications

[Conference] 1 Languages recognized with unbounded error by quantum finite automata, A. Yakaryilmaz, A. C. C. Say.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 5675, (Proceedings of the Fourth International Computer Science Symposium in Russia), 2009, pp. 356-367. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-03351-3_33. [arXiv:0809.0073].
[TR] 2 Quantum finite automata with one-sided unbounded error, A. Yakaryilmaz, A. C. C. Say. [arXiv:0902.2081].
[Conference] 3 Succinctness of two-way probabilistic and quantum finite automata, A. Yakaryilmaz, A. C. C. Say.
AutoMathA2009, Liege, Belgium, 2009. [arXiv:0903.0050].
[Poster] 4 Language recognition by generalized quantum finite automata with unbounded error, A. Yakaryilmaz, A. C. C. Say.
TQC2009 (4th Workshop on Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication, and Cryptography), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2009. [arXiv:0901.2703].
[Journal] 5 Efficient probability amplification in two-way quantum finite automata, A. Yakaryilmaz, A. C. C. Say.
Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 410, No. 20, pp. 1932-1941, 2009. doi:10.1016/j.tcs.2009.01.029.
[Presentation] SATA 2008.
[MSThesis] Efficient Two-Way Quantum Finite State Automata, Bogazici University, Turkey, 2007.

Education

[PhD] : (2007 - ) Department of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul
[MS] : (2004 - 2007) Department of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul
[BS] : (2001 - 2004) Department of Computer Education and Educational Technology [Ranked First], Bogazici University, Istanbul
-- : (1994 - 2001) Department of Mathematics [Incomplete], METU, Ankara

Scholarships

Professional Experience

Teaching/Research Assistant (2006 - 2008) Department of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul
Teaching/Research Assistant (2004 - 2006) Department of Educational Science, Bogazici University, Istanbul
Freelance Programmer (2003 - 2006) BUMED, EBC, PIART, CSA, Electric Journal