ENGIN UZUNCAOVA

1 University Station C0803

(512) 363-2291

Austin, Texas 78712-0240

fax (512) 471-5120

USA

uzuncaov@ece.utexas.edu

 

http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~uzuncaov

Education                     

Sep 2005 – Present       PhD Candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering

The University of Texas at Austin          Major GPA: 3.66/ 4.00

Mar 2001 – May 2003   Master of Science in Engineering, Computer Science

Naval Postgraduate School − Monterey/CA/U.S.A.

Overall GPA: 3.91/ 4.00                         Major GPA: 3.92/ 4.00

Mar 2001 – May 2003   Master of Science in Engineering, Software Engineering

Naval Postgraduate School − Monterey/CA/U.S.A.

Overall GPA: 3.91/ 4.00                         Major GPA: 3.86/ 4.00

Aug 1993 – Aug 1997    Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering

Turkish Naval Academy − Istanbul/Turkey

Overall GPA: 3.32/ 4.00                         Major GPA: 3.31/ 4.00

Experience    

Jun 2007 – Aug 2007     Software Engineer in Test (Intern), Google – Kirkland, WA

Designed and developed a model-based testing solution (in Python) and a test

automation suite (in Eggplant) for the shared download and install manager used by

Google’s client applications.

Jun 2006 – Dec 2006     Functional Verification Test Developer (Co-Op), IBM – Austin, TX

Application and Integration Middleware Software, IBM Software Group

Designed and developed functional test cases for WebSphere Application Server for

annotation support specified in ‘Java API for XML-Based Web Services’ (JAX-WS)

Sep 2005 – Present       Research Assistant, Software Testing Research Group, EDGE, UT Austin

Working on formal models for software architectures with Dr. Sarfraz Khurshid

Sep 2005 – May 2006    Teaching Assistant, Intro. to Programming, Prof. Terry J. Wagner, UT Austin

                                    Assisted students with course materials and programming assignments in C/C++

Apr 2003 – Aug 2005    Software Engineer, Turkish Navy Research Center – Istanbul/TURKEY

Software Development Department, C2 Systems Division

Managed the land based test system for a large-scale command & control project

Administered the configuration management system and the code generation environment

Developed scripts to collect metrics from the source code repository 

Deployed and administered the bug tracking system used for the project

Participated in acceptance test procedures as a software tester

Programmed in C/C++, Java, Ada and scripting languages

Certificates                 Acquisition of Embedded Weapon Systems Software (MN3309) satisfying

Equivalency Requirements for Defense Acquisition Univ. SAM 201, 28 March 2003

Configuration Management Certificate issued by Defense Industry and Technology

Training Center of the Turkish Ministry of Defense, 19 December 2003

Skills                           Languages: Java, C, C++, Ada, Python, Bash, Alloy, SenseTalk

Tools: CVS, Bugzilla, Eclipse, Ant, JUnit, Web Services, Eggplant

Operating systems: Windows (XP / 2000), UNIX (Linux / Sun Solaris)

In-depth knowledge of software engineering methods and techniques

Experienced in software testing and verification

Experienced in configuration management and defect tracking systems

 Awards                       Excellence in project team effort, March 2005, TNRCC

Excellence in academic effort, Sept. 2003, Turkish Navy Command

Excellence in duty, February 1999, Turkish Navy Command

Publications                Uzuncaova, E., Garcia, D., Khurshid, S., Batory, D., A Specification-based

                                    Approach to Testing Software Product Lines The 15th ACM SIGSOFT

Symposium onFoundations of Software Engineering (FSE), Dubrovnik,

Croatia, September, 2007. (To appear).

Uzuncaova, E., Khurshid, S., Kato: Program Slicing for Alloy ModelsThe

29th Int.Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Minneapolis, MN,

USA, May, 2007.

Uzuncaova, E., Khurshid, S., Program Slicing For Declarative Models, The

14th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering

(FSE), Portland, OR , USA, November, 2006.

Khurshid, S., Malik, M., Uzuncaova, E., Generating Alloy Specifications from

Instances, The 2nd Int'l Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal

Methods, Verification and Validation (ISoLa), Paphos, Cyprus, November,

2006.

Uzuncaova, E.,  A Generic Software Architecture for Deception-based Intrusion

Detection and Response Systems, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA,

USA, March 2003.

D.P.Julian, G.Fragkos, E.Uzuncaova, Thesis Research on Software-based

Deception, The 3rd Annual IEEE SMC Information Assurance Workshop,

West Point, NY, USA, June 2002.

References                 Available upon request

Employment Status     Student Visa