I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU). I am also a member of the Computational Imaging & Visualization Analysis (CIVA) Lab at MU. I received my M.Sc. at the Computer Engineering Department of the Izmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH). My research interests include Image Processing, Biomedical Image Analysis, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Software Testing, Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms, Evolutionary Algorithms.

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Publications

International Conference and Workshop Papers

Ekincan Ufuktepe, Deniz Kavzak Ufuktepe, Korhan Karabulut, “MKEA-TCP: A Mutant Kill-based Local Search Augmented Evolutionary Algorithm Approach for Test Case Prioritization”, IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), (Accepted, to appear), 2021

Alicia Esquivel Morel, Deniz Kavzak Ufuktepe, Robert Ignatowicz, Alexander Riddle, Chengyi Qu, Prasad Calyam, Kannappan Palaniappan, “Enhancing Network-edge Connectivity and Computation Security in Drone Video Analytics”, IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition (AIPR), 2020 [pdf]

Deniz Kavzak Ufuktepe, Kannappan Palaniappan, Melissa Elmali, Tobias I. Baskin, “RTip: A Fully Automated Root Tip Tracker for Measuring Plant Growth With Intermittent Perturbations”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2020 [pdf]

Deniz Kavzak Ufuktepe, Jaired Collins, Hadi AliAkbarpour, Guna Seetharaman, Kannappan Palaniappan, “Video stabilization for robust moving target detection for onboard low altitude UAV tracking”, SPIE Geospatial Informatics X, 2020 [pdf]

Journal Papers

Deniz Kavzak Ufuktepe, Tolga Ayav, Fevzi Belli, “Test Input Generation from Cause Effect Graphs”, Software Quality Journal, 2021 [pdf], [source code]

National Conference Papers

Deniz Kavzak Ufuktepe, Tolga Ayav, Fevzi Belli, “Test Input Generation from Cause Effect Graphs” (In Turkish), 10. Ulusal Yazilim Muhendisligi Sempozyumu, UYMS 2016

Theses

Deniz Kavzak Ufuktepe, “Test Case Generation from Cause Effect Graphs”, M.Sc. Thesis, Izmir Institute of Technology

Teaching

CS 2050 - Algorithm Design and Programming 2 - Spring 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2021 - MU as TA