EDUCATION

PhD  : Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK (2004-2008) (Discontinued)

MSc   : Computer Science, Bogazici University, Türkiye (2004)

BA     : Computer Science, Bogazici University, Türkiye (2000)

AREAS OF INTEREST

Research: Natural Language Processing, Theory of Computation, Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy Logic, Cognitive Science

Teaching: Analysis and Design of Algorithms, Advanced Java, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Data Structures, Object Oriented Programming with Java, Object Oriented Programming with C++, Computer Organization, Research Methods, Enterprise Applications

EXPERIENCE

Academic Experience

University of New York Tirana (AL), Department of Computer Science, Assistant Lecturer (2008-Current)

Professional Experience

Hitit Computer Services, Tirana, Albania, Senior Project Leader (2010 – Current)

Hitit Computer Services, Istanbul, Turkey, Project Leader, (2002 – 2004)

Hitit Computer Services, Istanbul, Turkey, Analyst Programmer (2000 – 2002)

RESEARCH OUTPUTS

Refereed Journal Articles

Ballhysa, E., & Vajjhala, N. R. (2009). Interrelation between Albania’s emerging economy and enterprise multitier applications. Economy& Business, 4(1), 95-99.

Refereed Conference Presentations

Elton Ballhysa, A. C. Cem Say, “Generating equiprobable superpositions of arbitrary sets for a new generalization of the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 3280, (Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences), 2004, pp. 966-975.

Marenglen Biba, Elon Ballhysa, Narasimha R. Vajjhala, Vijay R. Mullagiri, “A Novel Structure Refining Algorithm for Statistical-Logical Models”, 4th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, 2010.

Elton Ballhysa, Özcan Asılkan, “A novel N-gram based language classification algorithm”, 2nd International Conference on Informatics, 2011, Canakkale, Turkey

Elton Ballhysa, Özcan Asılkan, “A Fuzzy Approach for Blog Opinion Mining: An application to Albanian language”, 2nd World Conference on Information Technology, 2011, Antalya, Turkey

Books and Book Chapters

Elton Ballhysa, “A generalization of Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm”, Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009.

AWARDS AND HONORS

2000, Honor Degree in B.Sc.

2000, Best International Student Prize in B.Sc.

2004, High Honor Degree in M.Sc.