Dr. Cihan Varol

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

Sam Houston State University

Huntsville, TX, 77341

Phone: 1-936-294-3930

Fax: 1-936-294-4312

Email: cvarol@shsu.edu

Recent Journal Papers

[1] VAROL, C., NEUMANN, H., "Real-Time Data Quality Monitoring System for Data Cleansing", International Journal of Business Intelligence Research, Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2012, pp. 83-93, ISSN: 1947-3591

[2] NUTHAKKI, M. K., METE, M., VAROL, C., SUH, S. C., "UXSOM: UML Generated XML to Software Metrics", ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Vol. 36 Issue 3, May 2011, pp. 1-6, ISSN: 0163-5948

[3] VAROL, C., BAYRAK, C., "Estimation of Quality of Service in Spelling Correction using Kullback-Leibler divergence", Elsevier: Expert Systems with Application, Volume 38, Issue 5, May 2011, Pages 6307-6312 (Impact Factor: 3.162)

[4] VAROL, C., BAYRAK, C., "Risk Assessment of Error-Prone Personal Information in Data Quality Tools", Journal of Computers, Academy Publisher, Volume 6, No 2, February 2011, ISSN 1796-203X

[5] VAROL, C., STAFFORD B., KOVVURI, K., CHITTI, R. "Author Disambiguation using an Hybrid Approach of Queries and String Matching Techniques" IJIIP: International Journal of Intelligent Information Processing, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 3-11, 2010

Recent Conference Proceedings

[1] VAROL, C., "Pattern Matching Techniques: A Survey Study Conducted on Social Security Numbers and Date of Births", ICGST Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (CSE-11), December 19-21, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey

[2] PAVLOCK, B., DAVENPORT, C., McDANIEL, A., CASEY, J., VAROL, C., "Address Verification and Standardization Based on Edit Distance and Soundex", 6TH International Advanced Technologies Symposium (IATS’11), May 16-18, 2011, Elazig, Turkey

[3] VAROL, C., TALBURT, J., "Pattern and Phonetic Based Street Name Misspelling Correction", 8th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG 2011), pp. 553-558. April 11-13, 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

[4] PUSHKAREV, V., NEUMANN, H., VAROL, C., TALBURT, J., "An Overview of Open Source Data Quality Tools", The 2010 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE 2010), July 12-15, 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

[5] VAROL, C., BAYRAK, C., "Business Process Automation Based on Dependencies", The Second International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management (eKNOW 2010), February 10-15, 2010, St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles

Current Graduate Students

Sairam Hari (M.S. in CS) - "A Hybrid Approach in Detecting the Near Duplicates Webpages" - To graduate in Fall 2012 - Works as Graduate Assistant

Past Graduate Students

  • Garrett Calpouzos (M.S. in DF) - "VoIP Steganography Utilizing the Internet Low Bit-Rate Codec" - Graduated in Summer 2012 - Works as Web Application Security Specialist at WhiteHat Security, Houston, TX
  • Alejandro Villegas (M.S. in IAS) - "CVOIP-FRU: Comprehensive VoIP Forensics Report Utility" - Graduated in Spring 2012 - Works as Security Program Manager at Microsoft, Redmond, WA
  • Kishore Shimikeri (M.S. in CS) - "Parts Based Image Recognition Model- Finding Waldo" - Graduated in Spring 2011 - Works as Lead Front End Engineer at Scripps Networks, Baltimore, MD
  • Sandeep Naidu (M.S. in CS) - "Generating a Panoramic View with Using SIFT and RanSac" - Graduated in Fall 2010 - Works as Strategic Sourcing Analyst at Sysco, Houston, TX
  • Revathi Kanna (M.S. in CS) - "Content based Information Retrieval using CMD" - Graduated in Fall 2010 - Works as Checkpoint Security Analyst at Walgreens, Chicago, IL
  • Henry Neumann (M.S. in CS) - "Real-Time Quality of Service Monitoring for Information Quality Products" - Graduated in Spring 2010