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Grew up in Ordu 
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EDUCATION
1998 - 2003
Binghamton University (SUNY at Binghamton), Binghamton, NY
PhD. in Computer Science, Aug 2003.
Thesis title: Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design
1996 - 1998
Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey
M.S. in Information and Computer Science, Aug 1998.
1990 - 1995
Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
B.S. in Computer Engineering, Jul 1995.
EXPERIENCE
2003 - Present
IBM - Austin Research Lab, Austin, TX
Post-doctoral researcher,
- Research on run time improvement of Placement-Driven Synthesis (PDS) tool,
- Research on physical design placement stability,
1998 - 2003
Computer Science Department, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
Teaching assistant - System Programming Course,
Research assistant - (VLSI/CAD algorithms - placement, routing, partitioning, clustering),
- Developed Feng Shui standard cell placement tool,
- Developed Preferred Direction Steiner Tree algorithm,
- Implemented parsers for LEF/DEF and Bookshelf file formats,
- Responsible for installation and administration of UNIX systems, BLAC CAD
network and several websites,
- Designed, implemented and maintained GLSVLSI'02 Registration Booth Program
(PHP, MySQL),
- Designed, implemented and maintained 38th and 39th DAC University Booth projects
scheduling program (Perl/Tk).
May 2000 - Jan 2001
Intel Corporation Design Technologies Group, Santa Clara, CA
CAD Engineer,
- Developed several extensions to standard cell layout placement tool.
1996 - 1998
Information and Computer Science Department, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey
Research and teaching assistant,
- Developed a object creation and naming engine for a Mobile Computing Environment
- Participated to the technical organization of Inet-tr'97 Conference,
- Administrated network & computer systems, instructed Solaris 2.x UNIX administration
and Java courses.
1994 - 1996
Computer Engineering Department, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
Research and teaching assistant,
- Administrated network & computer systems, instructed UNIX & Windows courses.
1995 - 1996
TUBITAK Marmara Research Center, Gebze, Izmit, Turkey
System Support Group member,
- Administrated and supported UNIX systems, wrote system tools in C.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Research, development and analysis of VLSI/CAD Physical Design algorithms,
Experience with C, C++, Java, Perl(/Tk), Tcl/Tk, PHP, HTML, Pascal, MySQL, Shell Script,
Experience with several GNU software; Make, Autoconf/make, Bison, Flex,
Design, development and administration of websites,
Programming and administration experience in Client/Server environments,
Installation, configuration, maintenance & administration of
- UNIX (Linux, SunOS/Solaris , HP-UX, Ultrix), several Windows platforms,
- Routers, Switches, Modems, etc.,
Design and implementation of computer labs, campus/building networks and Internet sites.
AWARDS
- The 1995-Special Dean's Award, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Top graduate of class 1995, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
-"The ISPD2005 Placement Contest and Benchmark Suite",G.-J. Nam, C. J. Alpert,
P. Villarubia, B. Winter, M. YILDIZ, ISPD, Apr 2005, pp 216-220.
-"Placement Stability Metrics", C. J. Alpert, G.-J. Nam, P. Villarrubia, M. C. YILDIZ,
ASP-DAC, Jan 2005, Vol 2, pp 1144-1147.
-"Fractional Cut: Improved Recursive Bisection Placement", A. Agnihotri, M. C. YILDIZ,
S. Ono, A. Khatkhate, A. Mathur, P. H. Madden, ICCAD, Nov 2003, pp 307310.
-"Preferred Direction Steiner Trees", M. C. YILDIZ and P. H. Madden, IEEE Trans. Computer
Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 21(11), Nov 2002, pp. 13681372.
-"Parallel VLSI Standard Cell Placement on a Cluster of Workstations", Khundakjie, N. B.
Abu-Ghazaleh, M. C. YILDIZ and P. H. Madden, Proc. IEEE Clusters, October 2001, pp. 529-553.
-"Improved Cut Sequences for Partitioning Based Placement", P. H. Madden, M. C. YILDIZ,
DAC, Las Vegas, NV, 2001, pp 776779.
-"Preferred Direction Steiner Trees", M. C. YILDIZ, P. H. Madden, Great Lake Symposium
on VLSI, West Lafayette, IN, 2001, pp 5661.
-"Global Objectives for Standard Cell Placement", M. C. YILDIZ, P. H. Madden, Great Lake
Symposium on VLSI, West Lafayette, IN, 2001, pp 6872.
-"Relocatable Object Creation in a Mobile Computing Environment", S. B. Baydere,
O. Demir, G. Devlet, G. Kucuk, M. C. YILDIZ, N. Cetin, C. Erdil, N. Girgin, International
Conference on Distributed and Parallel Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA),
Las Vegas, NV, 1997.
-"MaROS: A Framework for Application Development an Mobile Hosts", S. B. Baydere,
O. Demir, G. Devlet, G. Kucuk, M. C. YILDIZ, N. Cetin, C. Erdil, N. Girgin, International
Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (Euro-PDS), Barcelona, Spain, 1997.
PROFESSIONAL & SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
Member of Turkey Linux Users Group since 1994.
Member of ACM/SIGDA since Oct 1999;
- Advisory board member since Feb 2004,
- Installation and maintainence of SIGDA web page (www.sigda.org),
- Technical help for SIGDA University Booth for 38th and 39th DAC,
- Technical help for SIGDA CADathlon at ICCAD'02,
- Organizational and technical help for GLSVLSI'02,
- SIGDA Booth representative at ICCAD'01.
Member of ACM since 1999.
Member of IEEE since 1999.
President of Binghamton Univ. Turkish Student Assoc. (BU/TSA) in 2002.
HOBBIES
Soccer, racquetball, swimming, hiking, traveling, reading, theatre
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Residential Status: H-1B Visa
Languages: Turkish (Native), English
REFERENCES
Available upon request.
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