Ferhatosmanoglu Achieves CAREER Award

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Congratulations to Dr. Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu for receiving the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Career Development (CAREER) Award. The Department of Computer Science and Engineering is particularly pleased as this is the third CSE junior faculty member to receive this honor in 2006. CAREER is the NSFs most prestigious award for junior faculty members. Established in 1995, the CAREER program aims at recognizing and supporting the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. CAREER winners are selected on the basis of creative, career-development plans that effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their institution.

Dr. Ferhatosmanoglu achieved this recognition for his proposed 5-year project titled, "Exploration of Dynamic Sequences in Scientific Databases." The goal of this project is to develop online structures and algorithms to dynamically maintain and analyze data sequences for scientific discovery and monitoring purposes. The implementation focuses on specific applications from physical and biological sciences that generate vast amounts of multi-dimensional data sequences. The work will continue within The Datebase Research Lab.

In 2001, Dr. Ferhatosmanoglu joined the CSE Department as an assistant professor after receiving his Ph.D in Computer Science from University of California, Santa Barbara. He received a Bachelors in Science from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1997. The Department of Energy had previously acknowledged Dr. Ferhatosmanoglu exceptional potential as a researcher in 2003 when they presented him with their "Early Career Award."