LAMP - IIF - IC
EPFL
CH-1015 Lausanne

Tel. +41-(0)-21-693.68.67 (my office)
Fax.                66.60 (secretariat)
                

I am pursuing a doctorate and working as research assistant in the Programming Methods Lab, here in EPF Lausanne. My research interest is in

understanding and facilitating semistructured programming

(see my research proposal for details). I have a Dipl.Inf. degree from RWTH Aachen and enjoyed being summer student at CERN.

My origin is Turkish. My first name Burak is pronounced "burak" (International Phonetic Alphabet), "boo-ruck" (for English speakers) or "bouraque" (for French speakers) and its Islamic meaning is described here. My screen name 'buraq' is actually another transliteration of the original Arabic, however it is not related to the IT company of the same name.

I am a Muslim, for which I praise Allah the most gracious, the most merciful. Muslims and Islam are the target of massive disinformation campaigns, which is a pity.

Besides work, I play some piano, read and go jogging. I try to contribute to open collaborative efforts like Wikipedia (english and turkish version) or Fedon Kadifeli's Online English-Turkish Dictionary of Computer Terms. As a student, I was active in AEGEE, a great European students' association, as speaker of the IT Working Group. Though "retired", I follow AEGEE's activities from far. You might want to check out AEGEE Tiki or the World Summit on the Information Society.

This is a private homepage and does not represent the opinion of any organisation mentioned here.

• Programming Language Abstractions for Semistructured Data
• Semistructured types, for faithful data binding in [iron - robust XML services] and Scala

• organized XML Day 2004-12-03
• assistant for Course Type Systems 2004/2005
• for Scala
  • nightly snapshots of Scala sources
  • bugtracking System aladdin
  • quick and dirty Scala Overview
  • added XML expressions
  • explore servlet programming in Scala (outdated)
  • overview of drafts, documentation on my projects
• AMoRE, a library with C and Java bindings for Automata, Monoids, Regular Expressions...

[ERRATA] [short] [long version]

talk @ ECOOP 2004 Panel "OOP and XML"   [link to the Panel website]

Research proposal for admission to EPFL's doctoral programme.

Diploma Thesis (RWTH Aachen) (revised)   talk @ EPFL

[talk @ EPFL]

[Report of Student Project July 2000-07]