Evrim Acar is a Senior Research Scientist at LIFE at University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research interests are data mining, machine learning, and mathematical modeling; in particular, tensor decompositions and their applications in social network analysis, computational neuroscience and chemometrics. Evrim received the Danish Council for Independent Research Sapere Aude Elite Young Researcher Award in 2012.

Evrim received her MS and PhD in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) in December, 2006 and May, 2008. She got her BS in Computer Engineering from Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey) in July, 2003.  (see CV)

Projects:

• JODA: Joint Data Analysis for Enhanced Knowledge Discovery in Metabolomics (March 2012- December 2015) funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research

Publications ( Google Scholar Citations ):

Journals

• Coclustering - a useful tool for Chemometrics (R. Bro, E. E. Papalexakis, E. Acar, N. D. Sidiropoulos ), Journal of Chemometrics, In Press, 2012.
• Coupled Analysis of in Vitro and Histology Tissue Samples to Quantify Structure-Function Relationship (E. Acar, G. E. Plopper, B. Yener), PLoS One , 7(3): e32227, 2012.
• Scalable Tensor Factorizations for Incomplete Data (E. Acar, D.M.Dunlavy, T.G.Kolda and M. Morup), Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 106(1):41-56, 2011.
• A Scalable Optimization Approach for Fitting Canonical Tensor Decompositions (E. Acar, D.M.Dunlavy, and T.G.Kolda), Journal of Chemometrics, 25(2):67-86, 2011.
• Temporal Link Prediction using Matrix and Tensor Factorizations (D.M.Dunlavy, T.G.Kolda, and E. Acar), ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data, 5(2), Article 10, 2011.
• Unsupervised Multiway Data Analysis: A Literature Survey (E. Acar and B.Yener), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 21(1): 6-20, 2009.
• New Exploratory Clustering Tool, (E. Acar, R.Bro and B.Schmidt), Journal of Chemometrics, 22(1): 91-100, 2008.
• Resolving the Sign Ambiguity in the Singular Value Decomposition (R.Bro, E. Acar and T.G.Kolda), Journal of Chemometrics, 22(2):135-140, 2008.
• Multiway Analysis of Epilepsy Tensors, (E. Acar, C.A.Bingol, H.Bingol, R.Bro and B.Yener), Bioinformatics, 23(13): i10-i18, 2007.
• Proteomics Reveals Multiple Routes to the Osteogenic Phenotype in Mesenchymal Stem Cells, (K.P.Bennett, C. Bergeron, E. Acar, R.F. Klees, S.L. Vandenberg, B.Yener and G.E. Plopper), BMC Genomics, 8(1):380, 2007.

Conferences

• All-at-once Optimization for Coupled Matrix and Tensor Factorizations (E. Acar, T.G.Kolda and D.M.Dunlavy) KDD 2011 Workshop Proc. for the 9th Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs, 2011.
• Scalable Tensor Factorizations with Missing Data (E. Acar, D.M.Dunlavy T.G.Kolda, and M. Morup ) Proc. of the 10th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, pp. 701-712, 2010. (Code Available with Tensor Toolbox v.2.4)
• Link Prediction on Evolving Data using Matrix and Tensor Factorizations (E. Acar, T.G.Kolda, and D.M.Dunlavy) ICDM 2009 Workshop Proc. for the 1st Workshop on Large-Scale Data Mining: Theory and Applications, 2009.
• Seizure Recognition on Epilepsy Feature Tensor, (E. Acar, C.A.Bingol, H.Bingol, R.Bro and B.Yener), Proc. 29th Int. Conf. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007.
• Computational Analysis of Epileptic Focus Localization, (E. Acar, C.A.Bingol, H.Bingol and B.Yener), Proc. 4th Int. Conf. IASTED Biomedical Engineering, 2006.
• Collective Sampling and Analysis of High-order Tensors for Chatroom Communications, (E. Acar, S.A.Camtepe and B.Yener), Proc. IEEE Int. Conf on Intelligence and Security Informatics, LNCS, Vol. 3975, pp. 213-224, 2006.
• Modeling and Multiway Analysis of Chatroom Tensors, (E. Acar, S.A.Camtepe, M.Krishnamoorthy and B.Yener), Proc. IEEE Int. Conf on Intelligence and Security Informatics, LNCS, Vol. 3495, pp. 256-268, 2005.

Technical Reports

• Poblano v1.0: A Matlab Toolbox for Gradient-Based Optimization (D.M.Dunlavy, T.G.Kolda, E.Acar), SAND2010-1422, March, 2010.
• Modeling and Detection of Epileptic Seizures using Multi-modal Data Construction and Analysis, (E. Acar, C.A.Bingol, H.Bingol, R.Bro, A.L.Ritaccio, B.Yener), RPI Tech Report 08-02, 2008.

Some conferences with sessions on tensors:  

• SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra 2012, Valencia, Spain, June 18-22, 2012 (Minisymposium Speaker)
• TRICAP 2012, Bruges, Belgium, June 2-7, 2012 (Invited Speaker)
• RPI-NSF Workshop on Multiscale Modeling of Complex Data, RPI, Troy, NY, September 12-14, 2011 (Invited Speaker)
• Workshop on Tensor Approximation in High Dimension, Bonn, Germany, August 2-5, 2011 (Invited Speaker)
• Workshop on Tensor Decompositions and Applications, Monopoli, Bari, Italy, September 13-17, 2010 (Speaker)
• BIT50 Trends in Numerical Computing, Lund, Sweden, June 17-20, 2010 (Minisymposium Speaker)
• AIM Workshop: Computational Optimization for Tensor Decompositions, Palo Alto, CA, March 29-April 2, 2010.
• SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra , Monterey, CA, October 26-29, 2009 (Minisymposium Speaker)
• SIAM Annual Meeting 2009, Denver, CO, July 6-10, 2009 (Minisymposium organizer and speaker)
• TRICAP 2009, Nuria, Spain, June 14-19, 2009 (Speaker)
• SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Miami, FL, March 2-6, 2009 (Minisymposium organizer and speaker)
• NSF Workshop : Future Directions in Tensor-based Computation and Modeling, Arlington, VA, Feb. 20-21, 2009 (Speaker)
• KDD 2008 Workshop on Data Mining using Matrices and Tensors, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 24, 2008 (Speaker)
• SIAM Annual Meeting 2008, Town & Country Resort Hotel, San Diego, CA, July 7-11, 2008 (Minisymposium Speaker)
• ICIAM 2007, Zurich, Switzerland, July 16-20, 2007 (Minisymposium Speaker)
• Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets, Stanford University, CA, June 25-28, 2006 (Poster Presenter)
• TRICAP 2006, Crete, Greece, June 4-9, 2006.

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