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Fuat Akal
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: Hacettepe University
Computer Engineering Department
06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey
: +90-312-297-7500 / 129 (pbx)
: [email protected]
: 14 July 1974
: Turkish
: Single
: English (fluent), German (basic)
: self-motivated, quick learner
education
2007
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich)
Ph.D., Computer Science Department
2000
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
M.Sc., Computer Science and Engineering Department
1996
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
B.Sc., Computer Science and Engineering Department
work
and
July 2013 to
Today
research
experience
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turker
Computer Engineering Department
Assistant Professor
February 2008 to University of Zurich, Switzerland
July 2013
Functional Genomics Center
Scientific Staff/Data Management Expert
Has been working on the design, development and maintenance of B-Fabric which
is an open source infrastructure for data and application integration in the life
sciences domain. Development works on this infrastructure requires knowledge
about several technologies like JBoss Seam and Hibernate, Enterprise Java Beans,
Apache Lucene and ActiveMQ etc.
February 2008 to University of Zurich, Switzerland
July 2013
Functional Genomics Center
Scientific Staff/Data Management Expert
Has been working on the design, development and maintenance of B-Fabric which
is an open source infrastructure for data and application integration in the life
sciences domain. Development works on this infrastructure requires knowledge
about several technologies like JBoss Seam and Hibernate, Enterprise Java Beans,
Apache Lucene and ActiveMQ etc.
April 2006 to
December 2007
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Computer Science Department
Senior Researcher
Continued his work on data and replication management in the Grid. Designed and
developed WSRF compliant web services based on Globus Toolkit and Java.
Worked as the work package leader within an EU funded project.
April 2005 to
March 2006
University of Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology
(UMIT), Hall in Tirol, Austria
Institute of Information Systems
Visiting Researcher
Started working on digital libraries and grid computing. Worked on an EU funded
project named DILIGENT which pursued building digital libraries atop data grids.
His major focus was data management issues in the Grid.
December 2001 - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich)
March 2005
Institute of Information Systems
Researcher, PhD Candidate
Has done research on database clusters, replication schemes and query
processing. Designed and developed a distributed cluster coordination
infrastructure with C++ and CORBA. Improved his knowledge on database field.
His major focus was on design, scalability and availability of database clusters.
1996-2000
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
Computer Science and Engineering Department
Research/Teaching Assistant
Focused on concept based information retrieval in his master thesis and developed
a text based information retrieval system with C++ in Linux environment.
Addressed the need for a search engine operating on Turkish documents.
Worked as database administrator of the department. Managed Oracle and SQL
Server databases.
Participated as a lecturer to industry courses offered by the department. Taught
database design, SQL and programming in those courses.
1996-2000
Sinerji A.S., Ankara, Turkey
Software Training Company
Part-time Instructor
Gave lectures on Programming with Oracle and SQL Server, and database
administration to industry.
1995-1996
Meteksan Corp., Ankara, Turkey
Part-time Programmer/System Support
Worked in a software project group in Turkey’s Ministry of National Education.
Developed Oracle Forms and Reports. Contributed to design of database schemes.
In addition to programming and generating reports, his work description included
everything senior group members did not want to do. Jobs requiring investigations
of manuals, installations, training of ministry personnel, etc.
knowledge
Database :
MS SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2
MongoDB, CouchDB
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MaxDB, MS Access, Derby
Programming :
C++, Java, SmallTalk
SAP ABAP
Visual Basic, Delphi
JavaScript, PhP
Pascal, Ada, Basic, Fortran, Cobol
Oracle Developer Tools, Pro*C, SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL
EJB, JSF, XML, Ajax
Apache Cocoon, Lucene, ActiveMQ, OJB
Glassfish, Jboss Seam, Hibernate, JBPM
Operating Systems :
Mac OS, Linux, Windows 9x/NT/2000/xp, IBM vm/sp
Distributed Computing & SOA :
Hadoop, Globus Toolkit, WSRF, SOAP, WSDL, Corba, gLite
interests
Research: Database Systems, Data Replication, Big Data, Parallel and Distributed
Databases, Database Clusters, Multi-tiered Architectures, Service Oriented
Architecture, Data Integration, Grid Computing, Data Grids, Distributed
Information Systems, Digital Libraries.
General: Reading, swimming, snowboarding, getting together with friends and
singing with them, playing and watching football, listening to music, surfing on
Internet, collecting movies and hiking.
taken
courses
Hadoop Essentials, Amsterdam, 2013.
Project Management, Zurich, 2008.
IBM DB2 System Administration, Zurich, 2004.
IBM DB2 Application Programmer, Zurich, 2004.
Oracle 7 Database Administration, Ankara, 1995.
references
Will be provided upon request.