Dr. Öznur Özkasap is a faculty member in Department of Computer Engineering at Koç University since 2000. Before joining to Koç University, she was a graduate research assistant at Cornell University, Department of Computer Science from 1997 to 1999. From 1992 to 2000, she has been a research and teaching assistant at Ege University, Department of Computer Engineering. She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Ege University in 2000. During her Ph.D., she was awarded the TÜBİTAK-NATO A2 Ph.D. Research Scholarhip Abroad and completed her Ph.D. dissertation at Cornell University. Dr. Özkasap’s research interests include distributed computing systems, computer networks, network protocols, modeling/simulation/evaluation of distributed biologically-inspired algorithms, information dissemination, and distributed real-time systems.

Honors and Scholarships

Education

PhD in Computer Engineering from Ege University, May 2000 
Dissertation research study conducted at Cornell University 
Supervisors: Prof. Turhan Tunalı (Ege Univ.) and Prof. Kenneth P. Birman (Cornell) 
Dissertation : Scalability, Throughput Stability and Efficient Buffering in Reliable Multicast Protocols 

MSc in Computer Engineering from Ege University, July 1994 
Supervisor: Prof. Kayhan Erciyeş
Thesis : Static Scheduling in Distributed Real-Time Systems 

BSc in Computer Engineeringfrom Ege University, July 1992 
Thesis : Multimedia in Medical Education

Experience

Graduate Research Assistant and visiting PhD student, Cornell University, Department of Computer Science, Ithaca, NY, Horus/Ensemble Project group, August 1997-August 1999 

Teaching & Research Assistant, Ege University, Computer Engineering Department, Izmir, Turkey, December 1992-September 2000 

Project Member, personnal system automation, Vestel Data Processing Center, Manisa, Turkey, February-July 1992