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Nuri Denizcan Vanli
M.S. Student, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Bilkent University, Ankara 06800, Turkey
E-mail: vanli@ee.bilkent.edu.tr

Nuri Denizcan Vanli received the B.S. degree with full scholarship and high honors from Bilkent University, Turkey in June 2013. He is currently an M.S. student at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, under the supervision of Dr. Suleyman S. Kozat.

He has graduated from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University in June 2013 with a CGPA of 3.93 / 4.00 and his current GPA is 4.00 / 4.00. His awards include Best Oral Presentation Award in Signal Processing/Communications/Network by Bilkent IEEE Graduate Research Conference (GRC) in 2014, Research Excellence Award by Bilkent University in 2013, Academic Distinction Award by Bilkent University in 2013, Social Awareness & Professional Activities Award by Bilkent University in 2013, TUBITAK Scholarship for the M.S. degree. He received the 125th rank among more than 1 million candidates in the National University Entrance Examination and the 37th rank among more than 0.5 million candidates in National High School Entrance Examination. He received the Bronze Medal in the TUBITAK National Secondary School Mathematics Olympiad. He is a graduate of Izmir Fen Lisesi.

He has published 6 journal papers in highly respected Transactions, including 4 IEEE Transactions, and submitted 6 journal papers, which are currently under review in highly respected transactions. He has coauthored 15 conference papers in refereed high impact conference proceedings. His research interests include machine learning, convex optimization, distributed learning, mathematical finance, adaptive filtering and control theory, and statistical signal processing.

Journal Papers

  1. N. D. Vanli and S. S. Kozat, "A Comprehensive Approach to Universal Piecewise Nonlinear Regression Based on Trees," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 62, no. 20, pp. 5471-5486, Oct. 2014. (ieeexplore) (local copy)
        
  2. N. D. Vanli and S. S. Kozat, "A Unified Approach to Universal Prediction: Generalized Upper and Lower Bounds," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, accepted 2014. (ieeexplore) (local copy)
        
  3. M. O. Sayin, N. D. Vanli, and S. S. Kozat, "A Novel Family of Adaptive Filtering Algorithms Based on The Logarithmic Cost," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 62, no. 17, pp. 4411-4424, Sep. 2014. (ieeexplore) (local copy)
        
  4. N. D. Vanli, M. A. Donmez, and S. S. Kozat, "Robust Least Squares Methods Under Bounded Data Uncertainties," Digital Signal Processing, vol. 36, pp. 82-92, Jan. 2015. (elsevier) (local copy)
        
  5. B. Dulek, N. D. Vanli, S. Gezici, and P. K. Varshney, "Optimum Power Randomization for the Minimization of Outage Probability," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 4627-4637, Sep. 2013. (ieeexplore) (local copy)
        
  6. S. Bayram, N. D. Vanli, B. Dulek, I. Sezer, and S. Gezici, "Optimum Power Allocation for Average Power Constrained Jammers in the Presence of Non-Gaussian Noise," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 1153-1156, Aug. 2012. (ieeexplore) (local copy)
        

Journal Papers Under Review

  1. N. D. Vanli, M. O. Sayin, and S. S. Kozat, "Predicting Nearly As Well As the Optimal Twice Differentiable Regressor," Machine Learning, 2014. (arxiv)
        
  2. N. D. Vanli, M. O. Sayin, and S. S. Kozat, "Stochastic Subgradient Algorithms for Strongly Convex Optimization over Distributed Networks," IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, 2015. (arxiv)
        
  3. N. D. Vanli, H. Ozkan, and S. S. Kozat, "Online Classification via Self-Organizing Space Partitioning," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2015.
     
  4. N. D. Vanli, M. O. Sayin, H. Yilmaz, and S. S. Kozat, "Sequential Prediction over Hierarchical Structures," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2015. (data set)
        
  5. N. D. Vanli, M. O. Sayin, and S. S. Kozat, "Sequential Nonlinear Learning for Distributed Multi-Agent Systems via Feedforward Networks," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2015.
     
  6. N. D. Vanli, S. Tunc, M. A. Donmez, and S. S. Kozat, "Growth Optimal Investment in Discrete-Time Markets with Proportional Transaction Costs," Digital Signal Processing, 2015.
     

Working Papers

  1. N. D. Vanli and S. S. Kozat, "Counterfactual Reasoning with Feedback," to be submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2015.
     
  2. N. D. Vanli and S. S. Kozat, "Randomized Extreme Learning Machines," to be submitted to IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2015.
     

Conference Papers

  1. N. D. Vanli, H. Ozkan, I. Delibalta, and S. S. Kozat, "Online Nonlinear Classification for High-Dimensional Data," to appear in IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigData Congress), 2015.
        
  2. N. D. Vanli, M. O. Sayin, I. Delibalta, and S. S. Kozat, "A Scalable Approach for Online Hierarchical Big Data Mining," to appear in IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigData Congress), 2015.
        
  3. M. O. Sayin, N. D. Vanli, I. Delibalta, and S. S. Kozat, "Optimal and Efficient Distributed Online Learning for Big Data," to appear in IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigData Congress), 2015.
        
  4. N. D. Vanli, M. O. Sayin, T. Goze, and S. S. Kozat, "Twice-Universal Piecewise Linear Regression via Infinite Depth Context Trees," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), April 19-24, 2015.
        
  5. N. D. Vanli, M. O. Sayin, H. Yilmaz, T. Goze, and S. S. Kozat, "Energy Consumption Forecasting via Order Preserving Pattern Matching," IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), pp. 238-242, Dec. 3-5, 2014. (ieeexplore) (local copy)
        
  6. M. O. Sayin, N. D. Vanli, T. Goze, and S. S. Kozat, "Communication Efficient Channel Estimation Over Distributed Networks," IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), pp. 138-142, Dec. 3-5, 2014. (ieeexplore) (local copy)
        
  7. N. D. Vanli, M. O. Sayin, S. Ergut, and S. S. Kozat, "Piecewise Nonlinear Regression via Decision Adaptive Trees," European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 1188-1192, Sep. 1-5, 2014. (eurasip) (local copy)
        
  8. N. D. Vanli, M. O. Sayin, S. Ergut, and S. S. Kozat, "Comprehensive Lower Bounds on Sequential Prediction," European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 1193-1196, Sep. 1-5, 2014. (eurasip) (local copy)
        
  9. N. D. Vanli, M. A. Donmez, and S. S. Kozat, "Robust Regularized Least Squares Estimation in the Presence of Bounded Data Uncertainties," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 5637-5640, May 4-9, 2014. (ieeexplore) (local copy)
        
  10. M. O. Sayin, N. D. Vanli, and S. S. Kozat, "Improved Convergence Performance of Adaptive Algorithms with Logarithmic Cost," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 4513-4517, May 4-9, 2014. (ieeexplore) (local copy)
        
  11. M. O. Sayin, N. D. Vanli, and S. S. Kozat, "Logarithmic Regret Bound Over Diffusion Based Distributed Estimation," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 8287-8291, May 4-9, 2014. (ieeexplore) (local copy)
        
  12. N. D. Vanli and S. S. Kozat, "Sequential Nonlinear Regression via Context Trees," IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), pp. 1865-1868, April 23-25, 2014. (ieeexplore) (local copy)
        
  13. N. D. Vanli, M. O. Sayin, and S. S. Kozat, "Competitive Linear MMSE Estimation Under Structured Data Uncertainties," IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), pp. 1861-1864, April 23-25, 2014. (ieeexplore) (local copy)
        
  14. M. O. Sayin, N. D. Vanli, and S. S. Kozat, "Robust Set-Membership Filtering Algorithms Against Impulsive Noise," IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), pp. 1551-1554, April 23-25, 2014. (ieeexplore) (local copy)
        
  15. B. Dulek, N. D. Vanli, and S. Gezici, "Convexity Properties of Outage Probability under Rayleigh Fading," IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), pp. 1-4, April 18-20, 2012. (ieeexplore) (local copy)