Huseyin Polat s Curriculum Vitae

Huseyin Polat s Curriculum Vitae Department of Computer Engineering, Anadolu University, Eskisehir 26555, TURKEY +90 222 321 3550-6554 polath@anadolu.edu.tr http://home.anadolu.edu.tr/~polath/ Research Interest Data Mining, Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, Collaborative Filtering, Privacy- Preserving Collaborative Filtering, Geo-statistics, Privacy-Preserving Geo-statistics Education Syracuse University Syracuse, NY, USA Ph.D. in Computer Science May 2006 Thesis: Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Filtering Advisor: Dr. Wenliang Du Syracuse University Syracuse, NY, USA M.Sc. in Computer and Information Sciences May 2001 Istanbul Technical University Istanbul, Turkey B.Sc. in Civil Engineering June 1997 Administrative Department Vice Chair Tasks Department of Computer Engineering, Anadolu University 2010 - Present Experience Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey Associate Professor Department of Computer Engineering June 2011 - Present Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey Assistant Professor Department of Computer Engineering June 2006 - May 2011 Honors & Awards Scholarship by Turkish Ministry of Education to study abroad 1999-2005 Projects 1. Developing Techniques for Robustness of Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Filtering Schemes, TUBITAK 111E218, March 2012 - February 2014, PI 2. Providing Recommendations while Preserving Privacy, TUBITAK 108E221, February 2009 - January 2012, PI 3. Providing Predictions on Hidden Markov Models with Privacy, TUBITAK 107E209, February 2008 - January 2009, PI Publications Journal-SCI/SCIE 1. Kaleli, C. and Polat, H. Privacy-preserving random projection-based recommendations based on distributed data, International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, Accepted for publication, 2013. 2. Tugrul, B. and Polat, H. Privacy-preserving inverse distance weighted interpolation, The Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Accepted for publication, 2013. 3. Tugrul, B. and Polat, H. Estimating Kriging-based predictions with privacy, International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, Accepted for publication, 2013. 4. Bilge, A. and Polat, H. A comparison of clustering-based privacy-preserving collaborative filtering schemes, Applied Soft Computing, Accepted for publication, 2013. 5. Gunes, I., Kaleli, C., Bilge, A., and Polat, H. Shilling attacks against recommender systems: A comprehensive survey, Artificial Intelligence Review, DOI 10.1007/s10462-012-9364-9. 1

6. Yakut, I. and Polat, H. Estimating NBC-based recommendations on arbitrarily partitioned data with privacy, Knowledge-Based Systems, 36, 353-362, 2012. 7. Kaleli, C. and Polat, H. Privacy-preserving SOM-based recommendations on horizontally distributed data, Knowledge-Based Systems, 33, 124-135, 2012. 8. Yakut, I. and Polat, H. Arbitrarily distributed data-based recommendations with privacy, Data & Knowledge Engineering, 72, 239-256, 2012. 9. Yakut, I. and Polat, H. Privacy-preserving hybrid collaborative filtering on cross distributed data, Knowledge and Information Systems, 30 (2), 405-433, 2012. 10. Kaleli, C. and Polat, H. SOM-based recommendations with privacy on multi-party vertically distributed data, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 63 (6), 826-838, 2012. 11. Bilge, A. and Polat, H. An improved privacy-preserving DWT-based collaborative filtering scheme, Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal, 39 (3), 3841-3854, 2012. 12. Renckes, S., Polat, H., and Oysal, Y. A new hybrid recommendation algorithm with privacy, Expert Systems, 29 (1), 39-55, 2012. 13. Polat, H., Du, W., Renckes, S., and Oysal, Y. Private predictions on hidden Markov models, Artificial Intelligence Review, 34, 53-72, 2010. 14. Yakut, I. and Polat, H. Privacy-preserving SVD-based collaborative filtering on partitioned data, International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, 9 (3), 473-502, 2010. 15. Kaleli, C. and Polat, H. P2P collaborative filtering with privacy, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, 18 (1), 101-116, 2010. 16. Polat, H. and Du, W. Privacy-preserving top-n recommendations on distributed data, The Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59 (7), 1093-1108, 2008. 17. Renckes, S., Polat, H., and Oysal, Y. Providing predictions on distributed HMMs with privacy, Artificial Intelligence Review, 28 (4), 343-362, 2007. 18. Polat, H. and Du, W. Achieving private recommendations using randomized response techniques, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3918, 637-646, 2006. 19. Polat, H. and Du, W. Privacy-preserving collaborative filtering, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, 9 (4), 9-35, 2005. 20. Polat, H. and Du, W. Privacy-preserving collaborative filtering on vertically partitioned data, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3721, 651-658, 2005. Journal-Others 1. Gunes, I., Bilge, A., Kaleli, C., and Polat, H. Shilling attacks against privacy-preserving collaborative filtering, Journal of Advanced Management Science, 1 (2), 1-60, 2013. 2. Dokoohaki, N., Kaleli, C., Polat, H., and Matskin, M. Achieving optimal privacy in trust-aware social recommender systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6430, 62-79, 2010. 3. Renckes, S., Polat, H., and Oysal, Y. Determining the state sequence to maximize P(O, I λ) on distributed HMMs with privacy, Journal of Information Assurance and Security, 4(5), 422-431, 2009. 4. Kaleli, C. and Polat, H. Privacy-preserving recommendations on personal social networks, Advances in Soft Computing, 67, 117-125, 2009. 5. Kaleli, C. and Polat, H. Providing private recommendations using naïve Bayesian classifier, Advances in Soft Computing, 43, 168-173, 2007. 6. Kaleli, C. and Polat, H. Providing naïve Bayesian classifier-based private recommendations on partitioned data, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4702, 515-522, 2007. 2

7. Yakut, I. and Polat, H. Privacy-preserving Eigentaste-based collaborative filtering, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4752, 169-184, 2007. International Conference 1. Bilge, A., Gurmeric, S., and Polat, H. An enhanced collaborative filtering scheme via recursive clustering, Workshop on Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining and Machine Learning, Dortmund, Germany, 2012. 2. Bilge, A., Kaleli, C., Yakut, I., and Polat, H. On applications of privacy-preserving collaborative filtering schemes, The Fifth International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Ankara, Turkey, 2012. 3. Bilge, A. and Polat, H. An improved profile-based CF scheme with privacy, 2011 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Semantic Computing, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 2011. 4. Kaleli, C. and Polat, H. Privacy-preserving trust-based recommendations on vertically distributed data, 2011 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Semantic Computing, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 2011. 5. Yakut, I., Polat, H., and Koc, M. PCF: Projection-based collaborative filtering, International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, Valencia, Spain, 2010. 6. Bilge, A. and Polat, H. Improving privacy-preserving NBC-based recommendations by preprocessing, 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Web Intelligence Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2010. 7. Kaleli, C., Bilge, A., and Polat, H. On binary similarity measures for privacy-preserving top-n recommendations, The Fifth International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, Athens, Greece, 2010. 8. Kaleli, C. and Polat, H. Similar or dissimilar users? Or both?, The Second International Symposium on Electronic Commerce and Security, Nanchang, China, 2009. 9. Renckes, S., Polat, H., and Oysal, Y. Finding the state sequence maximizing P(O,I λ) on distributed HMMs with privacy, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security, Nashville, TN, USA, 2009. 10. Yakut, I. and Polat, H. Achieving private SVD-based recommendations on inconsistently masked data, International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, Gazimagusa, North Cyprus, 2007. 11. Polat, H. and Du, W. Effects of inconsistently masked data using RPT on CF with privacy, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Seoul, Korea, 2007. 12. Polat, H. and Du, W. Privacy-preserving top-n recommendation on horizontally partitioned data, IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Compiegne, France, 2005. 13. Polat, H. and Du, W. SVD-based collaborative filtering with privacy, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Santa Fe, NM, USA, 2005. 14. Polat, H. and Du, W. Privacy-preserving collaborative filtering using randomized perturbation techniques, The Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Melbourne, FL, USA, 2003. National Conference 1. Yakut, İ. ve Polat, H. Anadolu Üniversitesi Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölüm Tanıtımı, Elektrik Elektronik Bilgisayar Biyomedikal Mühendislikleri Eğitimi Dördüncü Ulusal Sempozyumu, Eskişehir, Türkiye, 2009. Books & Book Chapters 3

1. Kaleli, C. and Polat, H. Naïve Bayesian classifier-based private recommendations, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, 2010. 2. Yakut, I. and Polat, H. Dimensionality reduction-based recommendations with privacy, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, 2010. 3. Polat, H. Privacy-preserving data mining, Research on Computer Science, Computer and Electronics Engineering: Topics in CS, CE & EE, ed. E. Elbasi and M. S. Aktas, VDM Verlag, Germany, 2009. Graduate Students Ph.D. Students 1. Gunes, I. Developing techniques for robustness of privacy-preserving collaborative filtering schemes, September 2012 - Present. 2. Tugrul, B. Privacy-preserving geo-statistics, February 2009 - Present. 3. Bilge, A. Improving the performance of privacy-preserving collaborative filtering schemes by preprocessing, February 2012 - Present. 4. Yakut, I. Hybrid distributed data-based collaborative filtering with privacy, February 2009 - June 2012. 5. Kaleli, C. Multi-party distributed collaborative filtering with privacy, February 2009 - May 2012. M.Sc. Students 1. Senyurek, E. Effects of similarity measures on collaborative filtering, February 2010 - January 2013. 2. Renckes, S. Providing predictions on hidden Markov models with privacy, September 2006 - June 2008. 3. Yakut, I. Privacy-preserving dimensionality reduction-based collaborative filtering, September 2006 - May 2008. 4. Kaleli, C. Privacy-preserving naïve Bayesian classifier-based collaborative filtering, September 2006 - May 2008. Activities 1. Associate Editor of Anadolu University Journal of Science and Technology, 2010 - Present 2. Journal Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics IEEE Transactions on Information Theory International Journal of Electronic Commerce Applied Soft Computing Soft Computing User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction Knowledge and Information Systems Knowledge-Based Systems Oxford University The Computer Journal International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Journal of Systems and Software 4

Gazi University Journal of Science International Journal of Intelligence Science Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Research International Journal of Engineering, Science and Technology Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Mühendislik Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi 3. Program Committee International Symposium on Foundation of Open Source Intelligence and Security Informatics (FOSINT-SI 2012) Elektrik-Elektronik ve Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Sempozyumu (ELECO 2012) The First International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies (NDT 2009) Elektrik, Elektronik, Bilgisayar, Biyomedikal Mühendislikleri Ulusal Kogresi ve Fuarı (EEBB 2009) Elektrik, Elektronik, Bilgisayar, Biyomedikal Mühendislikleri Ulusal Kogresi ve Fuarı (EEBB 2008) The Third Information Security & Cryptology Conference (ISCTurkey 2008) Teaching 1. BIL 612 Data and Text Mining 2. BIL 562 Network Security 3. BIL 551 Advanced Database Management Systems 4. EEM 486 Computer Architecture 5. BIM 485/486 Research in Computer Science I/II 6. BIM 476 Data Acquisition and Processing 7. BIM 456 Network Security Principles 8. BIM 444 Computer Engineering Applications 9. BIM 437 Computer Engineering Design 10. BIM 312 Database Management Systems 5