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Assist. Prof. İBRAHİM ÖZKAN
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
Economic Theory
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CONTACT :
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Office:
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Phone :
(312)-297 8650/25Ext
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Email: iozkan@hacettepe.edu.tr
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URL:
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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
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Undergraduate : Middle East Technical University, Dept. Of Electrical and
Electronic Eng. 1987
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Graduate/Masters’ Degree : Hacettepe University, Dept. Of Economics, 1997
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Graduate/ PH.D: Hacettepe University, Dept. Of Economics, 2003
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Foreign Languages: English, Spanish
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ACADEMIC AREAS OF INTEREST:
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- Risk
Management, Financial Economics, Econometrics, Stochastic Differential
Equations, Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence
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CURRENT TEACHING ASSIGNMENT / COURSES TAUGHT:
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- Statistics
- Time Series
Analysis
- Financial
Management
- Financial
Markets
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PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:
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Information
Intelligence Corp. Senior Researcher 2002-2003
Ericsson Canada,
Design Engineer 1999-2000
Siemens, Design
Engineer 1991-1998
Turk Telecom,
Telecom Engineer 1987-1988
Post Doctoral
Fellow, University of Toronto, Knowledge/Intelligence Systems
Laboratory Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 2006
Spring and 2008 Spring
Post Doctoral
Fellow, University of Toronto, Knowledge/Intelligence Systems
Laboratory Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 2003-2005
Researcher,
University of Toronto, Knowledge/Intelligence
Systems Laboratory Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
2001-2002
Research Assistant,
Middle East Technical Univ., Ankara,
Electrical and Electronics Engineering 1988-1990
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ACADEMİC RESEARCH/ PUBLICATIONS :
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Conferences:
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- I. Ozkan and
I. B. Turksen, 2004 "Entropy Assessment of Type-2
Fuzziness", Fuzz-IEEE
2004, Special Session on Type-2 Applications, Budapest,
2004.
- Ozkan, I. B.
Turksen, and N. Canpolat, 2003, "Currency Crises: Can They be
Analyzed Under Perception Based Decision Theory Framework", METU
International Conference in Economics VII, Ankara Turkey, September 2003
- Ozer, I. and
I. Ozkan, “An Empirical Assessment of the Optimum Currency Areas Theory:
Turkey and the EMU Countries,” 2nd International Symposium on Public
Finance: Recent Fiscal Problems in Transitional Economies, in Kyrgyzstan on 24-27 October 2007.
- Ozer, I., I.
Ozkan and Aktan, H. O. “Optimum Currency Areas Theory: An Empirical
Application to Turkey,” 2nd International Symposium on Public Finance:
Recent Fiscal Problems in Transitional Economies, in Kyrgyzstan on 24-27 October 2007.
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Journals:
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- Ozkan
I., I.B. Turksen and N. Canpolat, “A Currency
Crisis and Its Perception With Fuzzy C-means,” Information Sciences,
178, Issue 8, 1923-1934 (2008) (SCI)
- Ozkan, I. and
I. B. Turksen, “Upper and Lower Values for the level of Fuzziness in
FCM,” Information
Sciences, 177, Issue 23, 5143-5152 (2007) (SCI)
- Ozer, I. and
I. Ozkan, “An Empirical Assessment of the Optimum Currency Areas Theory:
Turkey and the Emu Countries,” Fuzzy Economic Review, Vol XIII, No.
1, 1-18, May. (2008)
- Ozer, I. and
I. Ozkan, "Practical Insights from OCA Variable Combinations,"
Economic Annals,
Year LIII, No. 176, 38-61 March (2008)
- Erden, L. and
I. Ozkan, “Country-size Argument as a Potential Explanation for the
Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle,” The Empirical Economics Letters, 6
(6), 501-507 (2007).
- Ozkan, I. and
L. Erden, “Türkiye Ekonomisinde İş Çevrimlerinin Tarih ve Süre
Aralıklarının Tespiti," Akdeniz Üniversitesi,
İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, Akdeniz Journal of Economics
and Administrative Sciences, Cilt 7, Sayı 14, 1-19,
(2007) (Turkish)
- Ozer, I. and
I. Ozkan, "Optimum filtering for optimum currency areas
criteria," Economics
Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 44, 1-18 (2007)
- Ozer, I., I.
Ozkan and H. O. Aktan, “Optimum Currency Areas Theory: An Empirical
Application to Turkey,” South East European Journal of Economics and Business,
Vol. 2, No. 2, 75-88 (2007).
- I. Ozkan, I.
B. Turksen, and H. Okan Aktan, "Currency Crises Analyzed by Type-1
Fuzzy Logic System", Fuzzy Economic Review Vol IX p: 36-59
(2004).
- I. Ozkan and
I.B. Turksen, "Uncertainty Around Currency Crisis: Type-2 Fuzzy
System Modelling", Hacettepe Univ. Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences
(2003)
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Books/ Book Chapters:
- Ozkan, I. ve
I. B. Turksen, “Upper and lower values for the level of fuzziness in
FCM,” Fuzzy Logic: A Spectrum of Theoretical & Practical Issues, ed.
P.P. Wang, Da Ruan and E.E. Kerre, Vol. 215, 99-113, Springer-Verlag, Berlin
Heidelberg, (2007)
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PROJECTS:
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Application
of the Fuzzy System Modeling to predict creditworthiness of credit card
holders of a major Canadian Bank (using Matlab, SPSS & Mathematica).
Application
of Rule Based Fuzzy System Modelling (RBFSM) to predict the income and wealth
of the customers of a major Canadian Bank (using Matlab & SAS).
Implementation
of Possibilistic C-mean Clustering (PCM) in C++.
System
level design specification of Data-Mining by using RBFSM.
Technical
design of Rule Based Fuzzy System Modeling.
Research
on SS7 based interfaces over IP in General Packet Radio Service (GPRS-GSM
03.60).
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PROFESSIONAL SEMINARS:
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Application
of Data Mining for Credit Risk Management, (Discussion), VentureVest.
Application
of Artificial Intelligence by using Fuzzy System Modeling for Credit Scoring
(Discussion), Wells Fargo Canada
Problems
in Risk Management (Discussion), Credit Union Central of Ontario
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AFFILIATIONS/ MEMBERSHIPS:
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AWARDS:
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Patent for 3rd
Generation wireless system (3GPP) together with three colleagues 2000
Best Project,
Turk-Telecom R&D Award, Concentrator Design Project - 1991
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