UCSD Communication

Name:	Ayhan Aytes www.ayhanaytes.net
Education:	2004-Current Ph.D. Program in Communication, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA 2000 Master of Design in Communication Design, Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA 1995 B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, METU, Ankara
Work Experience:	2002-2004 Visual Communication Design, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey Taught graduate level Interface Design classes, advised master’s theses and projects. 1999-2002 Project Assistant, Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA Worked on NSF funded science teaching software projects for Chicago public schools. Conducted video ethnography studies for computer assisted science learning software. Summer 2000 Research Associate, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA Worked on a conceptual search software interface, conducted ethnographic research for computer assisted collaborative work environments.
Conferences/ Talks/ Exhibits:	April 2009, Crowdsourcing, The State of Things: Towards a Political Economy of Artifice and Artifacts, University of Leicester, UK May 2008, Mappamundi, TechnoTravels/TeleMobility: HASTAC in Motion, UC Irvine & UCLA, USA January 2007, AgoraXchange (with Jackie Stevens), UCDARNET Epicenter 07, UC Riverside, USA January 2007, ID Cover, Public Istanbul, Bauhaus University-Weimar, Germany May 2006 “ID Cover” Global States, UC Irvine, USA November/December 2005 Multimedia and photography works “ID Cover” exhibited in a collaborative intervention, Reading the City of Signs: Istanbul: Revealed or Mystified, Curated by: Gerard Mermoz, Taksim AKSANAT, Istanbul, Turkey January 2004 “Alphabet” Workshop Leader ICOGRADA Istanbul Meeting, Turkey September 2003 "Remembrance of Media Past" ICHIM ’03 Conference, Musee du Louvre, L’Ecole du Louvre, Paris, France February 2003 "Remembrance of Media Past" Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, USA April 2002 "Gozi: A Scientific Inquiry Environment for Homeschoolers" CHI 2002- Minneapolis, USA February 2002 "Video Observation as an Educational Research Tool" 2nd Annual Ethnography Conference, Chicago, USA
Awards/ Fellowships:	UCSD Friends of the International Center Scholarship, 2009-2010 IICAS Graduate Travel Grant, 2009-2010 NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Grant with SCGMA group, in collaboration with I-CHASS, 2008-2009 Christensen Fund Grant, 2007-2008 (in collaboration with Ramesh Srinivasan, UCLA) UC Startup Grant for agoraXchange.net, 2007-2008 (in collaboration with Jacquie Stevens, UCSB) University of Bauhaus-Weimar Travel Grant, January 2007 UCDARNET Travel Grant, August 2006 UCHRI Scholarship for SECT Seminar Participation, August 2006 CalIT2 Fellowship, 2004-2005 CEU Sun Scholarship, 2003