This is Gözde Özcan. I am a PhD student in SPIRAL at Northeastern University supervised by Prof. Stratis Ioannidis. My research is focused on submodular optimization and machine learning algorithms for set functions. Previously, I was a machine learning engineer intern at Meta, working with Dr. Antonia Gogoglou (2022) and Dr. Chenyang Zhang (2021). I received my master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Northeastern University (2021) and my bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University in Ankara, Türkiye (2018). I am looking for Researcher positions based in Europe and the US starting from Fall 2024.

Publications

Online Submodular Maximization via Online Convex Optimization

Tareq Si Salem, Gözde Özcan, Iasonas Nikolaou, Evimaria Terzi, and Stratis Ioannidis
AAAI 2024 | code | poster

Stochastic Submodular Maximization via Polynomial Estimators

Gözde Özcan, and Stratis Ioannidis
PAKDD 2023 | code | slides

Submodular Maximization via Taylor Series Approximation

Gözde Özcan, Armin Moharrer, and Stratis Ioannidis
SDM 2021 | code | slides | talk