Yusuf Hakan Kalaycı

General Information

Yusuf Hakan Kalaycı Department of Computer Science University of Southern California Email: yhkalayci@gmail.com Github: @yhkalayci

I am a 4th-year Ph.D. student at the Computer Science department of the University of Southern California, and I am being advised by Prof. Shaddin Dughmi and Prof. David Kempe.

I am part of the Theory Group group. My research interests are Online and combinatorial optimization under uncertainty. Approximate counting and uniform sampling of combinatorial objects. For more details, please see my resume.

Publications

• Shaddin Dughmi, Yusuf Hakan Kalayci, Neel Patel: Sparsification of Stochastic Packing Problems (submitted to SODA 2023).

Teaching

Teaching Assistant

• CSCI 670 Advanced Analysis of Algorithms, taught by David Kempe,
  University of Southern California, Computer Science, Fall 2022.

• CSCI 670 Advanced Analysis of Algorithms, taught by Shang-Hua Teng,
  University of Southern California, Computer Science, Fall 2021.

• Math 345 Probability Theory, taught by Ümit Işlak,
  Bogazici University, Mathematics Department, Summer 2018.

• Cmpe 250 Algorithms and Data Structures, taught by Ali Taylan Cemgil,
  Bogazici University, Computer Engineering Department, Fall 2017.

• Algorithmic Competition Summer Camp 2018, Summer 2018
  inzva

• Training of Turkish National Olympiad team in Informatics
  Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), 2013-2018.

Working Experience

• Volunteer at inzva (Jul. 2017 - Sept 2021)

• Business Technical Intern at Google, Dublin/Ireland (Jul. 2016 - Sept. 2016)

• Judge and problem setter in Turkish National Olympiads in Informatics (2013 - 2018)

Awards and Honors

• Gold Medal in International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2013, in Australia

• Gold Medal in Balkan Olympiad in Informatics (BOI) 2013, in Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Gold Medal in Turkish National Olympiad in Informatics 2013