Bugra Caskurlu

Academic Qualifications

Ph.D., Computer Science, 2010, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

M.S., Computer Science, 2006, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

B.S., Computer Engineering, 2003, Bilkent University, Turkey

CAREER DETAILS

Academic Positions Held

Asst. Prof., Artificial Intelligence Engineering, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey, 02/2019 - present

Asst. Prof., Computer Engineering, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey, 02/2014 - present

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lane Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, West Virginia University, USA, 09/2010 - 06/2013

Teaching and Research Assistant, Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, 08/2003 - 08/2010

Administrative Positions Held

Head of Artificial Intelligence Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey, 06/2022- present

Vice Head of Computer Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey, 08/2016-06/2022

Administrative Committee Member of Graduate School of Engineering and Science, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey, 09/2019- present

Membership in Advisory Boards of International Organizations

Balkan Olympiad in Informatics (BOI), International Committee Member, 10/2022-present

European Junior Olympiad in Informatics (EJOI), International Committee Member, 09/2023-present

Artificial Intelligence: Algorithmic Game Theory, Computational Social Choice, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

Design and Analysis of Algorithms: Approximation Algorithms, Graph Algorithms

BIL 113 Computer Programming I

BIL 114 Computer Programming II

BIL 133 Combinatorics

BIL 331 Computer Algorithms

BIL 334 Formal Languages and Automata

BIL 403 Social Networks

BIL 404 Algorithmic Game Theory

BIL 436 Approximation Algorithms

YAP 470 Machine Learning

BIL 503 Social Networks

BIL 504 Algorithmic Game Theory

BIL 531 Design and Analysis of Algorithms

BIL 536 Approximation Algorithms

BIL 570 Machine Learning

Piotr Wojciechowski, K. Subramani, Alvaro Velasquez, Bugra Caskurlu.” Algorithmic Analysis of Priority-Based Bin Packing”. Discrete Applied Mathematics, Elsevier (Netherlands), Volume 342: pp. 64-75 (2024).

Utku Umur Acikalin, Bugra Caskurlu, K. Subramani. “Security-Aware Database Migration”. Constraints, Elsevier (Netherlands), Volume 28(3): pp. 472-505 (2023).

Bugra Caskurlu, Fatih Erdem Kizilkaya, Berkehan Ozen, “Hedonic Expertise Games”. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Springer (Germany), (2023). DOI: 10.1007/s10472-023-09900-y

Bugra Caskurlu, Fatih Erdem Kizilkaya, “On Hedonic Games with Common Ranking Property”. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Springer (Germany), (2023). DOI: 10.1007/s10472-023- 09892-9

Bugra Caskurlu, Özgün Ekici, Fatih Erdem Kızılkaya. “On Existence of Equilibrium Under Social Coalition Structures”. Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, Cambridge University Press (UK), Volume 32(2): pp. 216-239 (2022).

Bugra Caskurlu, Utku Umur Acikalin, Fatih Erdem Kızılkaya, Özgün Ekici. “On Approximate Nash Equilibria of the Two-Source Connection Game”. Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, TUBITAK (Turkey), Volume 30(6): pp. 2206-2220 (2022).

Özgün Ekici, Bugra Caskurlu. “Location Choice Under Spillovers”. Business and Economic Research Journal, Uludag University (Turkey), Volume 13(1): pp. 1-9 (2022).

Bugra Caskurlu, Özgün Ekici, Fatih Erdem Kızılkaya. “On Efficient Computation of Equilibrium Under Social Coalition Structures”. Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, TUBITAK (Turkey), Volume 28(3): pp. 1686-1698 (2020).

Bugra Caskurlu, Matthew D. Williamson, K. Subramani, Vahan Mkrtchyan, “On Approximating Optimal Weight “no”-certificates in Weighted Difference Constraint Systems”. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Springer (Germany), Volume 36(2): pp. 329-345 (2018).

Bugra Caskurlu, Matthew D. Williamson, K. Subramani, Vahan Mkrtchyan, “Partial Vertex Cover and Budgeted Maximum Coverage in Bipartite Graphs”. SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, SIAM (USA), Volume 31(3): pp. 2172-2184 (2017).

Elliot Anshelevich, Bugra Caskurlu, Koushik Kar, Hang Zhang, “Capacity Allocation Games for Network-Coded Multicast Streaming”. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE/ACM (USA), Volume 22(2): pp. 595-607 (2014).

Bugra Caskurlu, Ashish Gehani, Cemal Çağatay Bilgin, K. Subramani, “Analytical Models for Risk-Based Intrusion Response”. Computer Networks, Elsevier (Netherlands), Volume 57(10): pp. 2181-2192 (2013).

Elliot Anshelevich, Bugra Caskurlu, Ameya Hate, “Strategic Multiway Cut and Multicut Games”. Theory of Computing Systems, Springer (Germany), Volume 52(2): pp. 200-220 (2013).

Elliot Anshelevich, Bugra Caskurlu, Ameya Hate, “Partition Equilibrium Always Exists in Resource Selection Games”. Theory of Computing Systems, Springer (Germany), Volume 53(1): pp. 73-85 (2013).

Elliot Anshelevich, Bugra Caskurlu, “Exact and Approximate Equilibria for Optimal Group Network Formation”. Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier (Netherlands), Volume 412(39): pp. 5298-5314 (2011).

Elliot Anshelevich, Bugra Caskurlu, “Price of Stability in Survivable Network Design”. Theory of Computing Systems, Springer (Germany), Volume 49(1): pp. 98-138 (2011).

Utku Umur Acikalin, Bugra Caskurlu, “Multilevel Memetic Hypergraph Partitioning with Greedy Recombination”. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2022), Boston/USA, July 2022, ACM(USA), GECCO 2022 Companion Volume: pp. 168-171 (2022).

Bugra Caskurlu, Özgün Ekici, Fatih Erdem Kizilkaya, “On Singleton Congestion Games with Resilience Against Collusion”. 27th International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics (COCOON 2021), Tainan/Taiwan, October 2021, Springer(Germany), LNCS 13025: pp. 37-48 (2021).

Bugra Caskurlu, Fatih Erdem Kizilkaya, Berkehan Ozen, “Hedonic Expertise Games”. 14th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT 2021), Aarhus/Denmark, September 2021, Springer(Germany), LNCS 12885: pp. 314- 328 (2021).

Utku Umur Acikalin, Bugra Caskurlu, Piotr J. Wojciechowski, K. Subramani, “New Results on Test-Cost Minimization in Database Migration”. 6th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2021), Lisbon/Portugal, September 2021, Springer(Germany), LNCS 13084: pp. 38-55 (2021).

Piotr J. Wojciechowski, K. Subramani, Alvaro Velasquez, Bugra Caskurlu, “Algorithmic Analysis of Priority-Based Bin Packing”. 7th International Conference on Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics (CALDAM 2021), Rupnagar/India, February 2021, Springer(Germany), LNCS 12601: pp. 359-372 (2021).

Bugra Caskurlu, Özgün Ekici, Fatih Erdem Kizilkaya, “On Existence of Equilibrium Under Social Coalition Structures''. 16th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation (TAMC 2020), Changsa/China, October 2020, LNCS 12337: pp. 263- 274 (2020).

K. Subramani, Bugra Caskurlu, Utku Umur Acikalin, “Security-Aware Database Migration Planning”. 5th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2019), Munich/Germany, September 2019, Springer(Germany), LNCS 12041: pp. 103-121 (2019).

Bugra Caskurlu, Fatih Erdem Kizilkaya, “On Hedonic Games with Common Ranking Property”. 11th International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity (CIAC 2019), Rome/Italy, March 2019, Springer(Germany), LNCS 11485: pp. 137-148 (2019).

K. Subramani, Bugra Caskurlu, Alvaro Velasquez, “Minimization of Testing Costs in Capacity-Constrained Database Migration”. 4th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2018), Helsinki/Finland, August 2018, Springer(Germany), LNCS 11409: pp. 1-12 (2018).

Bugra Caskurlu, Matthew D. Williamson, K. Subramani, Vahan Mkrtchyan, Piotr J. Wojciechowski, “A Fully Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme for Refutations in Weighted Difference Constraint Systems”. 4th International Conference on Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics (CALDAM 2018), Guwahati/India, February 2018, Springer(Germany), LNCS 10743: pp. 45-58 (2018).

Bugra Caskurlu, Vahan Mkrtchyan, Ojas Parekh, K. Subramani, “On Partial Vertex Cover and Budgeted Maximum Coverage Problems in Bipartite Graphs”. 8th IFIP Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (TCS 2014), Rome/Italy, September 2014, Springer(Germany), LNCS 8705: pp. 13-26 (2014).

Elliot Anshelevich, Bugra Caskurlu, Koushik Kar, Hang Zhang, “Capacity Allocation Games for Network-Coded Multicast Streaming”. 2nd International ICST Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GAMENETS 2011), Shanghai/China, April 2011, Springer(Germany), LNICST 75: pp. 658-673 (2011).

Elliot Anshelevich, Bugra Caskurlu, Ameya Hate, “Partition Equilibrium Always Exists in Resource Selection Games”. 3rd International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT 2010), Athens/Greece, October 2010, Springer(Germany), LNCS 6386: pp. 42-53 (2010).

Elliot Anshelevich, Bugra Caskurlu, Ameya Hate, “Strategic Multiway Cut and Multicut Games”. 8th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms (WAOA 2010), Liverpool/UK, September 2010, Springer(Germany), LNCS 6534: pp. 1-12 (2010).

Elliot Anshelevich, Bugra Caskurlu, “Price of Stability in Survivable Network Design”. 2nd International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT 2009), Paphos/Cyprus, October 2009, Springer(Germany), LNCS 5814: pp. 208- 219 (2009).

Elliot Anshelevich, Bugra Caskurlu, “Exact and Approximate Equilibria for Optimal Group Network Formation”. 17th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2009), Copenhagen/Denmark, September 2009, Springer(Germany), LNCS 5757: pp. 239-250 (2009).

Balkan Olympiad in Informatics (BOI), International Committee Member, 10/2022-present

European Junior Olympiad in Informatics (EJOI), International Committee Member, 09/2023-present

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