Contact Information

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Engineering
Bilkent University
Bilkent, 06800, Ankara, Turkey

Office:	Engineering Building, EA 422 (Engineering Building in Google Maps)
Phone:	+90 (312) 290-3405
	+90 (312) 290-1218 (Department Secretary)
Fax:	+90 (312) 266-4047
Email:
URI:	http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~saksoy

I am currently on sabbatical as a Visiting Associate Professor and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.

I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering at Bilkent University. I am also the co-director of the RETINA Vision and Learning Group at Bilkent. I received my Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington in Seattle in 2001. Before joining Bilkent, I worked as a Research Scientist at Insightful Corporation in Seattle during 2001-2003 and as a Research Assistant at the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at UW during 1996-2001. I also spent the summers of 1998 and 1999 at the Tampere International Center for Signal Processing in Tampere, Finland as a Visiting Researcher.

My current research interests include computer vision, statistical and structural pattern recognition, machine learning and data mining with applications to object recognition, image and video classification, remote sensing image analysis and medical imaging.