Email: imrenbalta@gmail.com, id0002@uah.edu
Address: Multimedia Lab in Room S305
300 Technology Hall University of Alabama at Huntsville
Huntsville AL USA 35899
I am a PhD student at Computer Science Department, University of Alabama in Huntsville and working as a graduate teaching assistant since 2015. I received her B.Sc. degree in computer engineering from Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey in 2012 with first rank in the department and an honor degree. Currently, I am working on experimental design for protein crystallization experiments and visualization of these experimental results. My research areas are data mining, image processing, bioinformatics, pattern recognition, and biochemistry.
Ph.D Computer Science 2015-2016 (expected)
GPA 3.92 / 4
M.Sc. Computer Science 2013-2015
GPA 4.00 / 4
B.Sc. Computer Science 2007-2012
GPA 3.78 / 4
2015-Now University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
2013-2015 University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
06/2011-08/2011 Yildiz Technical University,TURKEY
06/2010-10/2010 Veripark (http://www.veripark.com/), TURKEY
2016 Dean's List in Computer Science Department, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
2015 Dean's List in Computer Science Department, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
2012 First Rank in Computer Science Department, Dokuz Eylul University, TURKEY
2012 Honors Degree in College of Engineering, Dokuz Eylul University, TURKEY
1999 - 2012 Scholarship from The Vehbi Koç Foundation, TURKEY
Assoc. Prof. Ramazan S. Aygun (Ph.D Advisor) Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama Huntsville, AL, USA+1(256) 824-6455aygunr@uah.edu
Dr. Marc L. Pusey Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama Huntsville, AL, USA+1(256) 824-2794marc.pusey@ixpressgenes.com
Prof. Suleyman Sevinc (B.Sc. Advisor) Department of Computer Science, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, TURKEY+90(232) 412-7403suleyman.sevinc@deu.edu.tr
[Ph.D] Imren Dinc, Ramazan S. Aygun, Marc L. Pusey"Associative Experimental Design for Protein Crystallization Screening" , University of Alabama in Huntsville, Computer Science Department, 2016. (expected)
[B. Sc.] Imren Dinc, Hakime Ozturk, Yasenya Aygul, Suleyman Sevinc, "Machine Learning Method and Distance Measure in Classification of Proteins" , Dokuz Eylul University, Institute of Science, July 2012.
[1] Imren Dinc, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Optimizing Associative Experimental Design for Protein Crystallization Screening" , IEEE/ACM Transactions on NanoBioscience, 2016. (Accepted)
[2] Imren Dinc, Semih Dinc, Madhav Sigdel, Madhu S. Sigdel, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Super-thresholding: Supervised Thresholding of Protein Crystal Images" ,IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2015. (Under Revision)
[3] Madhu S. Sigdel, Madhav Sigdel, Semih Dinc, Imren Dinc, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Autofocusing for Microscopic Images using Harris Corner Response Measure" , IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2014.
[4] Imren Dinc, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Visual-X2: a visualization program of crystallization trial images for Crystal X2 platform" , Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2016. (Submitted)
[5] Madhav Sigdel, Imren Dinc, Madhu S. Sigdel, Semih Dinc, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Feature Analysis for Classification of Trace Fluorescent Labeled Protein Crystallization Images" , Crystal Growth and Design, 2016. (Submitted)
[1] Imren Dinc, Semih Dinc, Madhav Sigdel, Madhu S. Sigdel, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. Aygun, "DT-Binarize: A Decision Tree Based Binarization for Proteins" , Emerging Trends in Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition, 2015.
[2] Madhav Sigdel, Madhu S. Sigdel, Imren Dinc, Semih Dinc, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Automatic Classification of Protein Crystal Images" , Emerging Trends in Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition, 2015.
[1] Imren Dinc, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Protein Crystallization Screening using Associative Experimental Design" , ISBRA 2015, June 2015, Norfolk VA.
[2] Imren Dinc, Semih Dinc, Madhav Sigdel, Madhu S. Sigdel, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. Aygun, "DT-Binarize: A Hybrid Binarization Method Using Decision Tree for Protein Crystallization Images" , IPCV 2014, July 2014, Las Vegas NV.
[3] Madhav Sigdel, Madhu S. Sigdel, Imren Dinc, Semih Dinc, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Classification of Protein Crystallization Trial Images Using Geometric Features" , IPCV 2014, July 2014, Las Vegas NV.
[4] Imren Dinc, Madhav Sigdel, Semih Dinc, Madhu S. Sigdel, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Evaluation of Normalization and PCA on the Performance of Classifiers for Protein Crystallization Images" , IEEE SoutheastCon 2014, March 2014, Lexington KY.
[5] Madhav Sigdel, Imren Dinc, Madhu S. Sigdel, Semih Dinc, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Evaluation of Semi-supervised Learning for Classification of Protein Crystallization Imagery" , IEEE SoutheastCon 2014, March 2014, Lexington KY.
[6] Semih Dinc, Madhav Sigdel, Imren Dinc, Madhu S. Sigdel, Farbod Fahimi, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Depth-Color Image Registration for 3D Surface Texture Construction using Kinect Camera System" , IEEE SoutheastCon 2014, March 2014, Lexington KY.
[7] Madhu S. Sigdel, Madhav Sigdel, Semih Dinc, Imren Dinc, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Autofocusing for Microscopic Images using Harris Corner Response Measure" , IEEE SoutheastCon 2014, March 2014, Lexington KY.
[1] Imren Dinc, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Visual-X2: Scoring and Symbolic Visualization Tool for Analysis of Protein Crystallization Trial Images" , Frontiers in Structural Biology of Membrane Protein & Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference (FSBMP-PDC), March 2016, Huntsville AL.
[2] Imren Dinc, Samyam Acharya, Mahesh Kumar Juttu, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Associative Experimental Design for Protein Crystallization Screening" , Frontiers in Structural Biology of Membrane Protein & Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference (FSBMP-PDC), March 2016, Huntsville AL.
[3] Imren Dinc, Semih Dinc, Madhav Sigdel, Madhu S. Sigdel, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Segmentation of Protein Crystal Regions using Supervised Thresholding for Trace Fluorescence Labeled Protein Crystallization Trial Images" ,Frontiers in Structural Biology of Membrane Protein & Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference (FSBMP-PDC), March 2016, Huntsville AL.
[4] Madhu S. Sigdel, Madhav Sigdel, Semih Dinc, Imren Dinc, Samyam Acharya, Mahesh Kumar Juttu, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Focal Stacking of Trace Fluorescence Labeled Protein Crystallization Images using FocusALL" , Frontiers in Structural Biology of Membrane Protein & Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference (FSBMP-PDC), March 2016, Huntsville AL.