Serdar Kadıoğlu

	M.Sc. at Brown University in 2009
	B.Sc. at Sabancı Üniversitesi in 2007
	Erasmus exchange student at Uppsala Universitet in 2006
	serdark[at]cs.brown.edu

• Same-relation constraint on various constraint graphs
  

• Dialectic search: A new local search meta-heuristic inspired by philosophy
  

• Dichotomic search protocols for constrained optimization
  

• Filtering algorithms for context-free grammar constraints
  Supervised by Prof. Meinolf Sellmann at Brown University, USA.
  Our methods and algorithms are publicly available in the Cornflower Library.

• Haplotype inference using pure parsimony
  

Supervised by Prof. Pierre Flener and Ugur Sezerman at ASTRA Research Group, Sweden.

• Airline crew scheduling
  Supervised by Prof. İlker Birbil, Kerem Bülbül and Hüsnü Yenigün at Sabancı Üniversitesi, Turkey.
  

Publications

• Grammar Constraints
  Serdar Kadioglu and Meinolf Sellmann
  Constraints Journal vol. 14, 2009

• Same-Relation Constraints
  Christopher Jefferson, Serdar Kadioglu, Karen Petrie, Meinolf Sellmann, Stanislav Zivny
  Proceedings of the 15^th Inter. Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-2009)

• Dialectic Search
  Serdar Kadioglu and Meinolf Sellmann
  Proceedings of the 15^th Inter. Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-2009)

• A Local Search Meta-Heuristic for Non-Specialists
  Serdar Kadioglu and Meinolf Sellmann
  The 1^st Workshop of Constraint Reasoning and Optimization for Computational Sustainability (CROCS-2009)

• Dichotomic Search Protocols for Constrained Optimization
  Meinolf Sellmann and Serdar Kadioglu
  Proceedings of the 14^th Inter. Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-2008)
  Nominated for Best Paper Award

• Efficient Context-Free Grammar Constraints
  Serdar Kadioglu and Meinolf Sellmann
  Proceedings of the 23^rd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2008)

Poster Presentation

• Cornflower: A Library for Global Constraints, Hybrid Searh Methods and Symmetry Breaking
  1^st Inter. Conference on Computational Sustainability, Cornell University (CompSust-2009)
  15^th Inter. Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-2009)

Teaching Assistant

• Fall 2008/2009 Introduction to Combinatorial Optimization
  Office Hours: Monday, 3:00pm - 4:00pm, CIT 453.

Service

• Reviewer for CP-2009, CP-2008.

• Session chair at CP 2009, Doctoral Programme.

• Local organization of CP-2007.

• Extending Mathematical Programming Glossary (together with Andrea Rendl and Roger Kameugne under the supervision of Prof. Chris Beck).

• Member of Constraint Programming Society in North America (CPNA).

• Departmental Sports Czar (Let me know if you want to register a team, sign-up for recreational sports or reimburse fees).