Ahmet Sayar has received his BEng. degree in Management Engineering from Istanbul Technical University (Istanbul, Turkey) and his MS and PhD degrees in computer science from Syracuse University (Syracuse, USA) and Indiana University (Bloomington, USA), respectively.  During his Ph.D. he has worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Community Grids Laboratory in USA as graduate research assistant. He is currently an Assistant Professor and assistant chair of Computer Engineering Department at Kocaeli University in Turkey. His research interest is applications of Web technologies to problems in scientific computing and performance problems in distributed systems.

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Education:

PhD – Indiana University Computer Science Department
Ms – Syracuse University Computer Science Department
Ms – Marmara University Management Department
BEng – Istanbul Tech. Univ. Management Eng. Dept.

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Work Experience:

• Assistant Professor and Assistant Chair of Computer Engineering Dept. Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey (2009-)
• Research Assistant at Community Grids Laboratory (CGL), Indiana University, IN, USA. (2001-2008)
• Research Assistant at Los Alamos National Lab (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, NM, USA. (2005)
• System Analyst at Istanbul Natural Gas Distribution Company (IGDAS), Istanbul, Turkey. (1996-1999)