CV

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Kansas State University, 2025-01 - Present

  GPA: 4.0/4.0

• M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, 2021-09 - 2024-09

  GPA: 3.56/4.0

  Advisor: Prof. FAZLI CAN

  Thesis: Dynamic Ensemble Diversification and Hash-Based Undersampling for the Classification of Multi-Class Imbalanced Data Streams

• B.Sc. in Information Technology Engineering, University of Tabriz, 2013-09 - 2017-07

  GPA: 16.09/20

  Degree Project: Flight Reservation System

Work experience

• 2025-01 - Present: Graduate Research Assistant
  • Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, U.S.A
  • Building concordant systems for AI applications: ontologies, bioinformatics, biomedical, food informatics, agriculture informatics.
• 2021-09 - 2024-09: Research & Teaching Assistant
  • Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
  • Developed machine learning algorithms for IR, data stream classification, learning to rank, NLP. Assisted with lab assignments and course materials.
• 2020-04 - 2021-07: Network Administrator
  • iCTN, Tabriz, Iran
  • Enhanced and maintained network infrastructure for companies and organizations. Managed servers, routers, switches, VMware, storage, firewalls.

Awards

• Graduate Fellowship, Bilkent University, 2021
  • Awarded for academic excellence during M.Sc. studies.
• Undergraduate Full Scholarship, University of Tabriz, 2013
  • Awarded for academic excellence during B.Sc. studies.

Editorial Activities

• Reviewer, Information Fusion, 2025-Present

• Reviewer, Knowledge-Based Systems, 2025-Present

• Reviewer, Expert Systems With Applications, 2025-Present

• Reviewer, Applied Ontology Journal, 2025-Present

• Reviewer, Computational Intelligence, 2024-Present

Teaching

• Computer Organization, Bilkent University, 2021
  • Lab Assistant
  • Assisted with lab assignments, projects, and course materials.
• Python, Bilkent University, 2021
  • Lab Assistant
  • Assisted with lab assignments, projects, and course materials.
• Algorithms and Programming II (Java), Bilkent University, 2021
  • Lab Assistant
  • Assisted with lab assignments, projects, and course materials.

Projects

• Sentiment Analysis Plugin for Kotlin (2021-07)
  • Developed a plugin to perform sentiment analysis on Kotlin code comments. Tools Used: Kotlin, Natural Language Processing.

Publications

• Dyned: Dynamic ensemble diversification in data stream classification
  • CIKM’23, 2023-10
  • Authors: S. Abadifard, S. Bakhshi, S. Gheibuni, F. Can
  • Link
  • Dynamic ensemble diversification in data stream classification.
• LSH-DynED: A Dynamic Ensemble Framework with LSH-Based Undersampling for Evolving Multi-Class Imbalanced Classification
  • arXiv, 2025-06
  • Authors: S. Abadifard, F. Can
  • Link
  • A dynamic ensemble framework with LSH-based undersampling for evolving multi-class imbalanced classification.