Projenin Adı - Research and Graduate Policies Directorate (RGP)

INTERNAL GRANT FOR ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
FINAL REPORT
Project Title
The First Computer Science Student Workshop (CSW’10)
Name of the PI
Esra Erdem
Cooperating Programs
on Project
Other Personnel
Cooperating on Project
Amount of Funds
Granted
5000 TL
The Computer Science Student Workshop (CSW) series is initiated by Esra Erdem
(Sabancı University) and Metin Sezgin (Koç University) to bring Computer Science
and Engineering graduate students at Sabancı University, Koç University, and other
universities in Istanbul in a semiformal workshop atmosphere. This workshop
exposes the graduate students to the concepts of academic writing, peer review,
research presentation, critical thinking as well as academic way of thinking in general.
The students also establish connections in this semiformal environment via meeting
each other, sharing ideas, and getting feedback on their work. The ultimate goal of
this workshop series is to form a network of young researchers who will support each
other and establish a core group of senior graduate student leaders, who will serve
as mentors and role models for the coming generation. Therefore, the workshop is
organized by graduate students and for graduate students: all organizing committee
members and program committee members (including chairs) are students, and the
submission is open to student papers only.
Principal results (not
more than 2 pages)
The First Computer Science Student Workshop (CSW’10) took place at the İstinye
Campus of Koç University, Istanbul, on February 21, 2010. It was sponsored by
Sabancı University and Koç University. It was organized by 30 graduate students
from various universities in Istanbul: 4 out of 8 Organizing Committee members and 7
out of 30 Program Committee members were SU graduate students.
CSW'10 received 50 paper submissions. Each paper was reviewed by at least 3
referees. Out of 50 submissions, 16 of them were accepted for oral presentation, and
15 of them were accepted for poster presentation. There were 17 submissions from
Sabancı University; 5 papers were accepted for oral presentation and 6 papers were
accepted for poster presentation. The proceedings of the workshop (including only
the accepted papers with publication-permissions) is nicely prepared as an e-book by
Information Center, and can be found in the collections of Information Center and in
Research Database:
Örencik, Cengiz and Yatbaz, Mehmet Ali and Eren, Tolga Mustafa and Elmas, Tayfun and
Meriçli, Tekin, eds. (2010) Proceedings of the 1st Computer Science Student Workshop:
Koc University Istinye Campus, Istanbul, Turkey, February 21, 2010. Sabancı University,
Istanbul, Turkey.
More than 60 graduate/undergraduate students from all over Istanbul attended
CSW'10; more than 20 of these participants were from Sabanci University. The
workshop consisted of 4 sessions of oral presentations and 3 poster sessions. The
oral presentation sessions were categorized into three main groups; namely "Artificial
Intelligence", "Network and Security", and "Bioinformatics, Data Mining, and
Computer Architecture". The presented papers covered a wide range of Computer
Science research, from Music-Driven Choreography Synthesis to Analysis of Protein
Interfaces.
The workshop committee gave 11 awards to some students for their exceptional
work, under the following categories: "Best Tool Paper", "Best Research Paper",
"Best Work-in-Progress Paper", "Best Poster", "Best Presentation", and "Best
Reviewer”. Here are the SU Awardees:
Best Research Paper Award
Murat Ergun, Albert Levi and Erkay Savas
A Resilient Key Management Scheme for Multi-Phase Wireless Sensor Networks
Best Tool Paper Award
Can Yildizli
Advances in malware development: Using Emulators’ Weaknesses and Cryptography
Best Work-in Progress Paper
Kaan C. Fidan, Ihsan Kehribar, M. Tugce Sahin, Serhan Cosar and Devrim Unay
Air drums: A computer vision based drum simulator
Best Reviewer Award
Halit Erdogan
For more details about the workshop, please visit the CSW'10 website at
http://csw.sabanciuniv.edu .
Final Budget Statement
Publications or
manuscripts prepared
(one copy of any
subsequent publication
will be furnished to the
URC)
Signature of Principal
Investigator
Date
The total expenses of CSW’10 was 7827 TL. Out of this amount, 4140 TL was paid
by Koç University and the rest (3687 TL) was paid by SU.
The proceedings of the workshop (including only the accepted papers with
publication-permissions) is nicely prepared as an e-book by Information Center, and
can be found in the collections of Information Center and in Research Database:
Örencik, Cengiz and Yatbaz, Mehmet Ali and Eren, Tolga Mustafa and Elmas, Tayfun and
Meriçli, Tekin, eds. (2010) Proceedings of the 1st Computer Science Student Workshop:
Koc University Istinye Campus, Istanbul, Turkey, February 21, 2010. Sabancı University,
Istanbul, Turkey.