Zumrut Akcam-Kibis (zakcamki)

Zumrut Akcam-Kibis

Teaching Assistant Professor

Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science

Department of Computer Science

Education

  • PhD (2018) The University at Albany, SUNY (Computer Science)
  • MS (2012) The University at Albany, SUNY (Computer Science)
  • BE (2010) Ege University (Computer Engineering)

Research

Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Data/Graph Mining and String Rewriting Systems

General Information

Zumrut Akcam-Kibis is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science. She earned her B.Eng. in Computer Engineering from Ege University, and received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University at Albany.

Experience

Senior Research Assistant - The Research Foundation of University at Albany (2017-2016)
Research Scientist/Assistant - The Research Foundation of University at Albany (2011-2014)

Institutional Service

  • Computer Science Club / ACM Student Chapter Chair
  • Stevens Women in Computer Science Club Member
  • Academic Ambassador for CS & Cybersecurity Member
  • "What's Next?" LLC Faculty Advisor Chair
  • CS Non-Tenure Track Search Committee Member
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee Member
  • Computer Science Club / ACM Student Chapter Chair
  • Stevens Women in Computer Science Club Member
  • CS Non-Tenure Track Search Committee Member
  • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Committee Member
  • Lore-El Center Member
  • Academic Ambassador for CS & Cybersecurity Member
  • Computer Science Non-Tenure Track Hiring Committee Member

Appointments

Teaching Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2021-

Professional Societies

  • ACM – Association for Computing Machinery Member
  • ACM – Association for Computing Machinery Member

Selected Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE
1. Dag, A.Z., Akcam, Z., Kibis, E.Y., Simsek, S. & Delen, D.(2022). A probabilistic data analytics methodology based on Bayesian Belief Network for predicting and understanding breast cancer survival. Knowledge-Based Systems, Volume 242, 2022, 108407, ISSN 0950-7051, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2022.108407.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
1. Akçam, Z., II. Hono, D.S. & Narendran, P. (2017). On problems dual to unification. In A.Gascon and C. Lynch (Eds.), Informal Proceedings of the 31st International Workshop on Unification (UNIF 2017). https://unif-workshop.github.io/UNIF2017/.
2. Martey, R. M., Wu, J., Stromer-Galley, J., Banks, J., Lovaas, S. & Akcam, Z. (2012). Intersections of technological and cultural tools and practices in conducting virtual world research. In Internet Research 13.0.
3. Lin, C.-S., Akcam, Z., Shaikh, S., Small, S.G, Stahl, K., Strzalkowski, T. & N. Webb (2012). Revealing contentious concepts across social groups. In LREC, pp. 2838-2841.

Courses

CS 115 - Introduction to Computer Science, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
CS 284 - Data Structures, Fall 2021, Spring 2023
CS 385 - Algorithms, Fall 2021