KAAN
ATAMAN
Argyros School of Business
and Economics
308C Beckman Hall
Chapman University
Orange, CA 92866
ataman(at)chapman.edu
EDUCATION
- Ph.D.
Department of Management Sciences,
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Thesis:
"Learning to Rank by Maximizing the AUC with Linear Programming for Problems
with Binary Output", 2007
- 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.
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
- Invited talk: "A Subgradient Approximation to LP-Based Rank Optimization
for Problems with Binary Outputs", INFORMS, 2007
- 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.
USEFUL LINKS
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2/23/2008