I am an Assistant Professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York. I am also a research affiliate at CSAIL, working with the Clinical Decision Making Group led by Professor Peter Szolovits and InfoLab led by Dr. Boris Katz.

I received my doctorate in Technology, Management and Policy Program (a program in the Engineering Systems Division) of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in February 2005. My dissertation was on Identifying Expression Fingerprints Using Linguistic Information for the purposes of copyright infringement detection, even when documents are paraphrased.

As a doctoral student, I was a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory where I worked as a research assistant in the Infolab Group. During my PhD, I was also a member of the MIT Communications Futures Program (formerly known as the MIT Program on Internet and Telecoms Convergence) headed by Prof. David Clark and Sharon Gillett.

I am interested in digital information and intellectual property over the Internet; I study both technology and policy issues related to dissemination of knowledge and protection of intellectual property in the digital world. I also research technology and policy related to digital government, Internet taxation, wireless networks and privacy.

Publications

Dissertation Abstract

• Uzuner, O. Identifying Expression Fingerprints Using Linguistic Information. Ph. D. Thesis. February 2005.

Refereed Conference and Journal Papers

• Sibanda, T., He, T., Szolovits, P., Uzuner, Ö. (2006). Syntactically-Informed Semantic Category Recognizer for Discharge Summaries. Proceedings of the Fall Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2006), Washington, DC, November 11-15, 2006.
• Sibanda, T., Uzuner, Ö. (2006). Role of Local Context in De-identification of Ungrammatical, Fragmented Text. Proceedings of the North American Chapter of Association for Computational Linguistics/Human Language Technology (NAACL-HLT 2006), New York, NY, June 5-7, 2006.
• Uzuner, Ö., Katz, B. (2005). A Comparative Study of Language Models for Book and Author Recognition. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Volume 3651/2005, pp. 969. Springer-Verlag GmbH. 2005.
• Uzuner, Ö., Katz, B. (2005). Style vs. Expression in Literary Narratives. Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2005) Workshop on Using Stylistic Analysis of Text for Information Access, Salvador, Brazil, August 15-19, 2005.
• Uzuner, Ö., Katz, B. (2005). Capturing Expression Using Linguistic Information. Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), Pittsburgh, PA, July 9-13, 2005.
• Uzuner, Ö., Katz, B., Nahnsen, T. (2005). Using Syntactic Information to Identify Plagiarism. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics Workshop on Educational Applications (ACL 2005), Ann Arbor, MI, June 25-30, 2005.
• Katz, B., Bilotti, M., Felshin, S., Fernandes, A., Hildebrandt, W., Katzir, R., Lin, J., Loreto, D., Marton, G., Mora, F., Uzuner, Ö. (2004). Answering Multiple Questions On a Topic From Heterogeneous Resources. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2004), Gaithersburg, MD, November 16-19, 2004.
• Uzuner, O., Davis, R., Katz, B. (2004). Using Empirical Methods for Evaluating Expression and Content Similarity. Proceedings of the 37th Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37), Hawaii, HI, January 5-8, 2004. IEEE Computer Society.
• Uzuner, O., Davis, R. (2003). Content and Expression-Based Copy Recognition for Intellectual Property Protection. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management (DRM'03), Washington, DC, October 27, 2003.
• Uzuner, O., Davis, R. (2003). Digital Fingerprinting for Distribution Volume Tracking: Intellectual Property Protection in Wireless Grids. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies (CCCT '03)/ 9th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS '03), Orlando, FL, July 31-August 2, 2003.
• Katz, B., Hurwitz, R., Lin, J., Uzuner, O. (2003). "Better Public Policy Through Natural Language Information Access". Proceedings of The National Conference on Digital Government Research, Boston, MA, May 18-21, 2003.
• Uzuner, O., Field III, F., McKnight, L. (2003). "Policy Implications of Copyright Infringement Detection Systems". Presented at the 7th International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation, Monterey, Mexico, June 10-13, 2003.
• McKnight, L., Anius, D., Uzuner, O.(2002). "Virtual Markets in Wireless Grids: Peering Policy Obstacles" Proceedings of the Thirtieth Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy / 30th Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC-30), Alexandria, VA, September 28-30, 2002.
• Uzuner, O., McKnight, L., (2001). "Sales Taxes on the Internet: When and How to Tax?" Proceedings of the Thirty-fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-34), Wailea, Maui, HI, January 2001. IEEE Computer Society.
• Uzuner, O., Katz, B., and Yuret, D. (1999). "Word Sense Disambiguation for Information Retrieval". Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99), July 18-22, 1999, Orlando, FL; Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, pages 985-986, Menlo Park, CA, July 18-22 1999. AAAI/MIT Press. (AAAI-99 Poster).
• Uzuner, O. (1998). "Word Sense Disambiguation Applied to Information Retrieval". Master's Thesis. MIT. May 1998.
• Uzuner, O., Siegel, M., and Madnick S., (1998). "Sharing Information through trusted agents". Proceedings of Euro-Med-Net Conference, The University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, March 1998.

Book Chapters

• McKnight, L., Anius, D., Uzuner, O. Internet Services. "Chapter: Virtual Markets in WIreless Grids: Peering Policy Prospects" in Quality of Service in Grids, Networks and Markets. MIT Press. September 2004. ISBN 0-262-13448-9.
• Uzuner, O., (1999). "Chapter 3: Ownership Trends" in Trends in Telecommunication Reform: Convergence and Regulation - 2nd edition, 1999. International Telecommunications Union, Geneva, Switzerland; ISBN 92-61-08141-X.