Hi, my academic advisors are Prof. Shashi Shekhar and Prof. David J. Lilja.

My research interests are high performance spatial data mining (HPSDM), high performance GIS (HPGIS), parallel and 
distributed (also grid) computing, spatial database management, linear algebra, spatial statistics, bioinformatics, 
machine learning and remote sensing imagery.

I collaborate with [in alphabetical order] Prof. Dan Boley, Prof. Sanjay Chawla, Prof. James P. LeSage, Prof. Kelley Pace, 
and Prof. Paul Schrater. 
I am affiliated with Spatial Database Group, ARCTIC Labs, AHPCRC and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute.

It is most convenient to reach me via email kazar001 at umn dot edu. 
 
Publications:
Refereed Papers: 
1. S. Ravada, B. M. Kazar, R. Kothuri, Query Processing in 3-D Spatial Databases: Experiences 
with Oracle Spatial 11g, Accepted at 3rd International Workshop on 3D Geo-Information: Requirements,
Acquisition, Modeling, Analysis, Visualization, November 13-14 2008, Seoul, South Korea

2. Keynote paper: B. M. Kazar, R. Kothuri, P. v. Oosterom and S. Ravada, "On Valid and Invalid Three-
Dimensional Geometries", 2nd International Workshop on 3D Geo-Information: Requirements, Acquisition,  
Modelling, Analysis, Visualisation, 12-14 December 2007, Delft, the Netherlands (Published as Chapter 2, 
pp. 19-46 in Advances in 3D Geoinformation Systems Series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and  
Cartography  Oosterom, P.v.; Zlatanova, S.; Penninga, F.; Fendel, E. (Eds.) 2008, XX, 441 p. 235 illus., 
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-72134-5

3. M. Celik, B. M. Kazar, S. Shekhar, D. Boley, D. J. Lilja, Modellare la dipendenza geografica 
usando l'Auto-regressione spaziale (in Italian), Geocomputation, Geosimulation, Geovisualisation:
metodi innovativi a supporto della pianificazione urbana e territoriale. Collana di ingegneria della
cittą e del territorio,  Alinea Editrice Firenze,  Editor: Beniamino Murgante. (Presented and published
in English at the First ICA Workshop on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling" 8 July 2006, Vienna, Austria
(Permission received from ICA workshop)).

4. M. Celik, B. M. Kazar, S. Shekhar, D. Boley, D. J. Lilja, Spatial Dependency Modeling Using Spatial 
Auto-regression, Bin Jiang and Daniel Z. Sui (2006, editors), Proceedings of the ICA Workshop on Geospatial
Analysis and Modeling as part of GICON 2006, Vienna, Austria. - [PDF] and Presentation Slides 

5. M. Celik, B. M. Kazar, S. Shekhar, D. Boley, Parameter Estimation for the Spatial Autoregression Model: 
A Rigorous Approach, the Second NASA Data Mining Workshop: Issues and Applications in Earth Science, 
held in conjunction with Interface 2006, the 38th Symposium on the Interface of Computing 
Science, Statistics and Applications May 2006, Pasadena, CA. 

6. F. Penninga, P. van Oosterom and B. M. Kazar, A Tetrahedronized Irregular Network based DBMS approach for
3D Topographic Data Modeling, the 12th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH 2006), 
as part of GICON 2006, July 2006, Vienna, Austria. (Springer-Verlag in a volume edited 
by Professor Wolfgang Kainz, Dr. Andreas Reidl and Professor Greg Elmes). - [DOC] and Presentation Slides

7. B. M. Kazar, S. Shekhar, D. J. Lilja, D. Shires, J. Rogers, M. Celik, A Parallel Formulation of the Spatial 
Auto-Regression Model, The International Conference on Geographic Information GIS PLANET, May 2005, 
Lisbon, Portugal. 

8. S. Shekhar, B. M. Kazar, D. J. Lilja, Scalable Parallel Approximate Formulations of Multi-Dimensional Spatial 
Auto-Regression Models for Spatial Data Mining, to appear as summary paper in the 24th Army Science Conference, 
November 2004, Orlando FL, USA. [PS] [PDF] [from Conf Web Site]

9. B. M. Kazar, S. Shekhar, D. J. Lilja, R. R. Vatsavai, R. K. Pace, Comparing Exact and Approximate Spatial 
Auto-Regression Model Solutions for Spatial Data Analysis, to appear in the Proc. of Third International 
Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience2004), October 2004, Adelphi MD, USA. 

10. B. M. Kazar, S. Shekhar, D. J. Lilja, D. Boley, A Parallel Formulation of the Spatial Auto-Regression 
Model for Mining Large Geo-Spatial Datasets, Proc. of 2004 SIAM International Conf. on Data Mining Workshop 
on High Performance and Distributed Mining (HPDM2004), April 2004, Orlando FL, USA.

11. J. H. Anderson, M. C. Yavuz, B. M. Kazar, P. Christova, C. M. Gomez, The Vestibulo-ocular Reflex and Velocity 
Storage in Spinocerebellar Ataxia 8, Archives Italiennes de Biologie, Vol. 140, No. 4, 323-329 (2002) - 
In honour of C.A. Terzuolo [PDF]

12. J. H. Anderson, M. C. Yavuz, B. M. Kazar, P. Christova, C. M. Gomez, Eye Position Feedback in a Model of the 
Vestibulo-ocular Reflex for Spino-cerebellar Ataxia 6, 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE 
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), October 25-28, 2001, Istanbul, Turkey. [PDF].

13. John Harold Anderson , Baris Kazar , Amit Varma , Laura Ranum , John
Day , Larry Schut , Christopher Gomez, 2000, Vestibular dysfunction in spinocerebellar ataxia,
Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abs.: 5805 

14. B. M. Kazar, N. G. Gencer, Measuring Electrical Conductivity Without Making Contact to Human Body, 7th 
National Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference, May 1997, Ankara, Turkey.

Poster & Talks:
1. B. M. Kazar, S. Shekhar, D. J. Lilja, Scalable Serial and Parallel Formulations of Multi-Dimensional 
Spatial Auto-Regression (SAR) Models for Spatial Data Mining, the Workshop on Data Mining: Army 
Perspectives, Methods, and Applications, July 2004, Aberdeen MD, USA.

2. B. M. Kazar, S. Shekhar, D. J. Lilja, Parallel Formulation of Spatial Auto-Regression, PPoPP2003 Conference, 
June 2003, San Diego CA, USA.

Tech Reports: 
1. M. Celik,  B.M. Kazar, D. Boley, S. Shekhar, D.J. Lilja, A Comparison of Approximate Solution Procedures for 
Spatial Autoregression, Army High-Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) Technical Report no. 2005-014

2. B.M. Kazar, D. Boley, S. Shekhar, D.J. Lilja, R.K. Pace, J. LeSage, Parameter Estimation for the Spatial Autoregression
Model: A Summary of Results, Army High-Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) Technical Report no. 2005-001 

3. B. M. Kazar, S. Shekhar, D. J. Lilja, D. Shires, J. Rogers, M. Celik, A Parallel Formulation of the Spatial
Auto-Regression Model, Army High-Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) Technical Report no. 2005-005

4. S. Shekhar, B. M. Kazar, D. J. Lilja, Scalable Parallel Approximate Formulations of Multi-Dimensional Spatial
Auto-Regression Models for Spatial Data Mining,   Army High-Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) 
Technical Report no. 2004-192

5. B. M. Kazar, S. Shekhar, D. J. Lilja, R. R. Vatsavai, R. K. Pace, Comparing Exact and Approximate Spatial 
Auto-Regression Model Solutions for Spatial Data Analysis,  Army High-Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) Technical Report 
no. 2004-126

6. B. M. Kazar, S. Shekhar, D. J. Lilja, D. Boley, A Parallel Formulation of the Spatial Auto-Regression Model 
for Mining Large Geo-Spatial Datasets,  Army High-Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) Technical Report 
no. 2004-103 also available as University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Research Report UMSI 2004/33

7. B. M. Kazar, S. Shekhar, D. J. Lilja, Parallel Formulation of Spatial Auto-Regression, Army 
High-Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) Technical Report no. 2003-125


Software:
* Spatial Auto-Regression (SAR) Model Solution Public Domain Code: The SAR software repository consists of Matlab 
  and Fortran programs. The codes are under the title Location Prediction.
* Java based Spatial Data Mining (JSDM) Public Domain Code: This is a GUI based software for visualizing spatial data 
  mining algorithm outputs. 
 Awards:
* Scholarship to support participation in GIScience 2004. The funds have been provided by ESRI.
* Travel award from FCRC PPoPP 2003 conference to support participation.  

TA Experience:
* CS8715 Spatial Databases Spring 2004 taught by Prof. Shashi Shekhar.
* EE5371 Computer Systems Performance Measurement and Evaluation Spring 2002 taught by Prof. David Lilja.
* EE3010 Circuit Theory II Summer 1999 taught by Prof. James Holte.

I am inspired by the work of Prof. Cahit Arf, a famous Turkish mathematician (1910-1997).

Professional Activities and Services:
* PC Member of of Intl Workshop on Computational GeoInformatics (CompGeo'09)
  in Conjunction with The 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications     
  (ICCSA 2009) www.iccsa.org, June 29th - July 2nd, 2009, Yongin, Korea
* Reviewer for a major GIS Journal.
* PC Member of 4th Intl Workshop on "Geographical Analysis, 
Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics" GEOG-AN-MOD 09
  in conjunction with The 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2009)
  June 29th to July 2nd, 2009, Yongin, Korea. 
* PC Member of 1st Intl Workshop on Semantic Aspects in Data Mining (SADM'08)
  In conjunction with the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2008)
  Pisa, Italy, December 15 - 19, 2008
* PC Member of Intl Workshop on Spatial, Temporal, and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining (STDM 2008)
* Member of Intl Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Commission III - Photogrammetric Computer Vision -
  Working Group III / 3 - Processing of point clouds from laser scanners and other sensors, 2004 - 2008
* PC Member of Intl Workshop on Computational GeoInformatics (CompGeo'08) 
  in Conjunction with The 2008 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications 
  (ICCSA 2008) www.iccsa.org, June 30th - July 3rd, 2008, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
* PC Member of 3rd Intl Workshop on "Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics" GEOG-AN-MOD 08 
  in conjunction with The 2008 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2008) 
  June 30th to July 3rd, 2008 University 
  of Perugia, Perugia, Italy 
* Field Editor of the Spatial Prediction Section of Encyclopedia of Geographical Information Science, by Springer .
* PC Member of ICDE 2007 Istanbul, Turkey. 
* PC Member of ISPRS 2005 SPATIAL DATA MINING WORKSHOP (11/24-25, 2005), METU, Ankara, Turkey. 
* Reviewer for ACM GIS 2005
* UCGIS Young Scholars' Committee Student Representative for year 2004-2005
* Moderated the 25th session titled as GIS for Homeland Security at the 13th Annual Conference & Workshops 
  of The Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium taken place on October 8-10, 2003 St. Paul, Minnesota. 
  The instructor was Mr. Randy Knippel from Dakota County.
* Reviewer for a Special issue on "OpenMP: Experiences, Implementations and Applications" which will be published
  in the Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices (PDCP) journal.
* Reviewer for a Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Computers, Advances in High Performance Memory Systems, November 2001.
* Member of ACM SIG, IEEE Computer Society.

Thanks for visiting me.
[I have no relationship with the P2P file sharing system "Baris Kazar" on the web]