Gazihan Alankus

This is my homepage for the moment.

I usually go by my short name "Gazi", so in case you google for Gazi Alankus, this sentence should help you find me.

I am a graduate student in Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St Louis since September 2004. My office is in Media and Machines Laboratory at Lopata 525. I am working with Dr. Burchan Bayazit.

I am from Turkey and I am of Ossetian origin. I got my BS and MS degrees from Middle East Technical University.

You can use gazihan@cse.wustl.edu to contact me.

My plan is to keep the information here in a CSS friendly way and create a couple of CSS files to make it look better. Currently in this static page you can read about my research areas, projects and intersts.

I am a supporter of free software, mostly as in "liberated". It's like having full access to concept art and blueprints of your car, being able to reach engineers working on it or even take part in it's design, which is awesome.

Research Areas

• Human motion
• Computer graphics
• Motion planning
• Sensor networks

Projects

• Utilizing Sensor Networks for Probabilistic Roadmap Methods in Autonomous Mobile Agent Control
  • Writing a sensor network simulator that utilizes Fire Dynamics Simulator data.

Interests

• Software
  • GNU/Linux
  • KDE
  • Kdevelop and Qt
    • qt4osg: My Qt4 widget for OpenSceneGraph. Tested in Linux, MinGW and MSVC 2005.
  • Blender Python Scripts
    • shifttime: Shift animation timing of an object and its children.
• Linear Algebra
  • Matrix multiplication:Multiplying a vector x with a matrix A to get vector y is equivalent to transforming the vector x from a source space where x lives, to a target space where y lives. The transformation is defined by A and is such that, columns of A are the axes (basis vectors) of the space where x lives, represented in the space where y lives. I strongly believe that any lecture in linear algebra should stress this and concepts in linear algebra make more sense when thought in the light of this.
• Hobbies
  • Playing the guitar
  • Reading comic magazines
  • Cooking
  • Photography
  • Computer games
    • Soldat!
    • DOTA!
    • Warcraft III Frozen Throne