I am a member of Cornflower Project under the supervision of Dr. Meinolf Sellmann. My thesis work investigates both complete and incomplete search procedures for solving combinatorial problems, and is awarded the 2010 IBM Ph.D. Scholarship.

Bio

B.Sc. at Sabancı Üniversitesi, 2003-2007

Erasmus exchange student at Uppsala Universitet, 2006

M.Sc. at Brown University, 2009  

Performance/security intern at Adobe Systems, Summer 2010

Visiting student researcher hosted by Prof. Pierre Flener, Spring 2010

Publications

• Incorporating Variance in Impact-Based Search
  Serdar Kadioglu, Eoin O'Mahony, Philippe Refalo and Meinolf Sellmann
  Proceedings of the 17^th Inter. Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-2011)
  

• Algorithm Selection and Scheduling
  Serdar Kadioglu, Yuri Malitsky, Ashish Sabharwal, Horst Samulowitz, Meinolf Sellmann
  Proceedings of the 17^th Inter. Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-2011)

• Instance-Specific Algorithm Configuration
  Serdar Kadioglu, Yuri Malitsky, Meinolf Sellmann, Kevin Tierney
  Proceedings of the 19^th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2010)

• Upper Bounds on the Number of Solutions of Binary Integer Programs
  Siddhartha Jain, Serdar Kadioglu, Meinolf Sellmann
  Proceedings of the 7^th Inter. Conference on Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research techniques in Constraint Programming, (CPAIOR-2010)

• Grammar Constraints
  Serdar Kadioglu and Meinolf Sellmann
  Constraints Journal, vol. 14, 2009

• Same-Relation Constraints
  Christopher Jefferson, Serdar Kadioglu, Karen Petrie, Meinolf Sellmann, Stanislav Zivny
  Proceedings of the 15^th Inter. Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-2009)

• Dialectic Search
  Serdar Kadioglu and Meinolf Sellmann
  Proceedings of the 15^th Inter. Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-2009)

• A Local Search Meta-Heuristic for Non-Specialists
  Serdar Kadioglu and Meinolf Sellmann
  In the 1^st Workshop of Constraint Reasoning and Optimization for Computational Sustainability (CROCS-2009)

• Dichotomic Search Protocols for Constrained Optimization
  Meinolf Sellmann and Serdar Kadioglu
  Proceedings of the 14^th Inter. Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-2008)
  Nominated for the Best Paper Award

• Efficient Context-Free Grammar Constraints
  Serdar Kadioglu and Meinolf Sellmann
  Proceedings of the 23^rd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2008)

Work Experience

Testing the ActionScript Virtual Machine, Adobe Systems.
Designed and implemented a tool, so-called structure-aware fuzzer or smart fuzzer, that can automatically generate test cases, perform post-crash analyses, and apply test case reduction to aid the debugging process. This work led to the discovery of three exploitable software vulnerabilities.

Talks

Dichotomic and Dialectic Search

• Sabancı Üniversitesi, Turkey, 2011
• Oracle, Advanced Constraint Technology Group, USA, 2011

Context-Free Grammar Constraints

• The 9^th workshop of the Network for Sweden-based Researchers and Practitioners of Constraint Programming , SweConsNet, Sweden, 2010

Simple and Efficient Search Procedures for Combinatorial Optimization

• Uppsala Universitet, Sweden, 2010

Same-Relation Constraints

• The 15^th Inter. Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Portugal, 2009

Dialectic Search

• Banff International Research Station, Canada, 2009

Poster Presentation

Cornflower: A Library for Global Constraints, Hybrid Searh Methods and Symmetry Breaking

• 1^st Inter. Conference on Computational Sustainability, Cornell University (CompSust-2009)
• 15^th Inter. Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-2009)

Teaching Assistant

• Fall 2008/2009 Introduction to Combinatorial Optimization
• Spring 2011 Interactive Computer Graphics
  

Service

• Reviewer for IJCAI'11, INFORMS'10, CPAIOR'10, CP'09, AAAI'08, CP'08
• Session chair at CP 2009, Doctoral Programme
• Local organization of CP 2007
• Extending Mathematical Programming Glossary (together with Andrea Rendl and Roger Kameugne under the supervision of Prof. Chris Beck)
• Member of Constraint Programming Society in North America
• Departmental Sports Czar
• Captain of Byte Soccer 

Events

Summer school, ACP, Marmaris, Turkey, 2011
Conference, CompSust, Ithaca, USA, 2009
Workshop, BIRS, Alberta, Canada, 2009
Conference, CP, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009
Conference, AAAI, Chicago, USA, 2008
Conference, CP, Providence, USA, 2007

Contact

Box 1910, Computer Science Department
Brown University
Providence, RI, USA, 02912
Office: 453