KAAN ATAMAN
Department of Management Sciences
Tippie College of Business
S221 PappaJohn Business Building
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1000
Email: kaan-ataman(at)uiowa.edu
Phone: (319)335-0922, (319)335-0972

Ok, it is not my car...yet!

EDUCATION

Ph.D. (in progress) Department of Management Sciences, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
M.S. Department of Mining and Nuclear Engineering, The University of Missouri - Rolla, Rolla, MO
Thesis: "Data Mining for Prediction of Condition and Performance of Mine Machinery", 2001
B.S. Department of Mining Engineering, The Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My general interest is in the field of in knowledge discovery and machine learning. My major research concentrates on the problem of ranking instances using margin maximizing classifiers, such as Support Vector Machines or any optimization (Linear or Quadratic Programming) based classification algorithm. I am currently working on developing rank optimization and constraint reduction algorithms.

LPR v1.0 is a Matlab implementation of linear programming based ranker (LPR) algorithm (You need CPLEX, or some other solver, to solve the optimization problem). Results of this work is published in IJCNN '06 (see below).

TALKS and PUBLICATIONS

K. Ataman, W. N. Street. Hierarchical Local Clustering for Constraint Reduction in Rank-Optimizing Linear Programs, First INFORMS Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining, November 2006.
Invited talk: Rank Optimization by an Approximation to WMW Statistic and its Applications, INFORMS, 2006
K. Ataman, W. N. Street and Y. Zhang. Learning to Rank by Maximizing AUC with Linear Programming. IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2006), pages 123-129, July 2006.
Invited talk: Learning to Rank with Linear Programming, INFORMS, 2005
K.Ataman and T.S.Golosinski. Knowledge discovery in mining truck databases. Proceedings. The 17th International Mining Congress of Turkey, Ankara., May 2001
T.S.Golosinski and K.Ataman. Total open-pit mining systems: a dream or a reality?. Proceedings. The 16th International Mining Congress of Turkey, Ankara., May 1999.

TEACHING

TA Coordinator and teaching assistant: Computer Analysis (6K:070) (Fall 2002-Fall2006)

For more information please see my CV

USEFUL LINKS

Data Mining at Iowa Group (DMIG) - Our discussion group led by Nick Street (my PhD advisor)
Information Systems and Optimization Research (ISOR) Laboratory - Our research lab

This page is updated on 7/10/2007