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Dr. Orhan Karsligil
orhan at karsligil.com
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Education
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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Cambridge, MA
Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in Process Engineering
Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering, June 2000.
Elected
member of Sigma Xi and past member of AICHE. Twice elected as
president of M.I.T. Turkish Students Association.
BOGAZICI
UNIVERSITY Istanbul, TURKEY
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, June 1995.
Graduated
with High Honors in seven semesters. Emphasis on process
design and economics, control, and optimization. Final project on
“Developing a Controllability Index for Heat Exchanger
Networks with Bypass Streams.”
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Experience
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11/05-Present
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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Cambridge, MA
Bioinformatics and Metabolic Engineering Laboratory
Research Scholar working network and pattern identification problems
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9/00-Present
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THE
EXETER GROUP,
INC. Cambridge, MA
Head of Information Systems, Project Manager
Client-facing
experience includes leading the development of Online Enrollment
Application of a large US University as a Project Manager, managing the
upgrade of student management systems for a university in Kuwait as an
Assistant Project Manager, designing the security architecture for a
B2B project between a prominent bank and an airline company in Kuwait
as an Operations Lead, and implementation of Exeter Student Suite for a
leading medical school in Boston.
Internal project experience includes managing the IT team, managing the
upgrade and expansion of the internal IS infrastructure, planning and
implementing security policies and audits for the Exeter network,
developing strategies and completing the implementation of an
Exeter-wide content management system, and developing and implementing
Exeter Group’s intranet systems including expense and time
tracking, invoicing, reporting, and allocations.
MCSE and MCDBA certifications.
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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Cambridge, MA
Laboratory for Intelligent Systems in Process Engineering
Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant, Seminar Series Organizer, and Systems Administrator.
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PROCTER
& GAMBLE,
INC. Frankfurt, GERMANY
First Line Manager, European Beverages Process Development Department.
Project on the solubility of calcium complexes in orange juice concentrate
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Publications
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“Multi-Scale
Modeling, Estimation and Control of Processing Systems”,
George Stephanopoulos, Matthew Dyer, and Orhan Karsligil, Computers and
Chemical Engineering, 21, p. S797-S803 (1997)
“Multi-Scale Considerations in Linear and Nonlinear
Estimation and Control”, George Stephanopoulos, Orhan
Karsligil and Matthew Dyer, in Nonlinear Model-Based Control, R. Berber
and C. Kravaris (editors), Kluwer (1998)
“Multi-Scale Model-Predictive Control”,
Orhan Karsligil, Matthew Dyer and George Stephanopoulos, Proceedings of
DYCOPS-5, Kerkyra, Greece (1998)
“Multi-scale Aspects in Model-Predictive Control”,
George Stephanopoulos, Orhan Karsligil, and Matthew Dyer, Journal of
Process Control, Vol: 10, Issue: 2-3, pp. 275-282 (2000)
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Research Interests:
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Multiscale Modeling and Optimization in Computational Biology and Protein Folding problems:
Using multiscale ideas in modeling and optimization to solve problems
in Bioinformatics and Protein Folding. Multiresolution approach to
modeling the interactions between sites in a molecule and simplifying
the related energy minimization problem. One of the objectives is to
convert the big energy minimization problem to an iterative, coarse to
fine-scale optimization problem, which can be solved using parallel
processors. Another objective is using wavelets or similar signal
processing techniques to analyze patterns in gene sequences to identify
statistically significant coherent features.
Process Design and Control:
Application of multiscale modeling and estimation to Model Predictive
Control. Application of Multiscale Model Predictive Control to industry
problems. The objective is to reduce computational complexity of the
MPC so that larger systems can be solved in a feasible timeframe. The
multiscale modeling allows incorporation of multirate inputs/outputs
and estimation as well.
Optimization:
Application of Wavelet Theory in discrete optimization problems
encountered in control theory. Reduction of complexity of Quadratic
Programming problems by transforming underlying state equations into
multiresolution/multiscale models and solving the optimization problem
with constraints in multiple resolutions. The objective is to develop
new algorithms to solve the constrained, thus nonlinear QP problems at
different resolutions and reduced complexity.
Clustering and Parallel Algorithms:
Building a cheap Linux cluster with off-the-shelf components and
testing parallel algorithms and database applications which can be used
to solve industrial problems as described above.
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Teaching Interests
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Systems Engineering
Numerical Methods in Chemical Engineering
Process Design and Control Applicable to Biological Systems
Optimization Techniques for Engineering Problems
Nonlinear Systems
Project Management in IT
Networks and Security
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Academic
Interests
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Cross-department/Cross-university Research
Organization of seminar series
Advanced computer systems to solve large scale problems
Commercialization of research results to get industrial funding
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Awards
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PAD scholarship from German Government 1984
3rd place in Turkish Physics Olympiads, 1986
Valedictorian, Istanbul German High School, 1991
DAAD scholarship from the German Government, 1991
Bogazici Univ. Alumni Association Scholarship, 1991-1995
Bogazici Univ. Professor Turgut Noyan Award, 1995
M.I.T. Chem. Eng. Dept. Graduate Student Fellowship, 1995
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Activities
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Turkish-American Cultural
Society of New England, Inc.
Twice elected as Member of the Executive Committee, serving on the Disciplinary Committee
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Languages
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Fluent in English, German, and Turkish.
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