• Senior student majoring in computer engineering, in Bilkent University
  Full scholarship awarded by the university.
• Graduated from Meram Science High School
  Ranked 52nd in University Entrance Examination OSS in quantitative in 2003

• Winner of web standards awards competition SWSSY, March 2006
  
• Member of winner team: SoftwareQuest, CS102 Project, 2004
• Success Certificate from the Photographic Art Society in Ankara FSK
• Ranked 52nd in University Entrance Examination in quantitative in 2003

• Senior project: Transportation Path Organizer 
• Working on PATIKA – Pathway Analysis Tools for Integration and Knowledge Acquisition project. Subject is conversion from BioPAX data model (another format for biological pathway data) into PATIKA model.
  
• In summer training, studied in BilVideo: A Video Database Management System project, and introduced the natural language processing NLP for the project and made the integration of NLP with the Web-based Visual Query Interface, which is another part of the project.
  Information about the project and a demo of the Web-based Query Interface can be found here
• Currently thinking on a game engine of adventure games (tile-based with isometric view) as a group. If we start designing and coding, I don't think the engine will go open source; because we can use it commercially in the future.

• Active member of Bilkent University Photography Club
• Member of Linux Users Group
• Member of Bilkent University Computer Club
• Giving dark room lessons for Photography Club

Work Experience

• iFountain LLC: Summer training @2006

• Programming in: Java, C, C++
• Learning: Python, ruby, lisp
• Using: html, xml, css, js, php, asp, sql
• Drawing with: inkscape
• Sometimes: Assembly

I think most important skills a computer engineer, coder, hacker, etc., must have are the abilities of learning new technologies faster, searching for the right information on the web, and getting pleasure from what he does.

• Native: Turkish
• Advance: English

Thinking about learning another language, but I can find anything in English, so.. hmm...

• AcikBilgi.com: My weblog about programming, design, news in technology, linux, and other related topics. Site also contains tutorials for popular programming languages, and translations of some technical papers. Link to the site is here
• Atlaterapi.org 
• Meramfenliler.org: This is the homepage for people graduated from our high school. I've designed the pages, wrote some codes in php, and still administrating the website.
• Club Page: Not a big job, but the database design, php code, graphics, and other things all done by me. link

You can contact me via my weblog or sending an email to conur[at]ug.bilkent.edu.tr