Education
| Ph.D. | Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2001. |
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| M.S. | Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1998. |
| B.S. | Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 1996. |
Work Experience
| Since 01/2004 | Assistant Professor,
Computer Engineering,
Bilkent University,
Ankara, Turkey. Co-director, RETINA Vision and Learning Group. |
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| 09/2001-12/2003 | Research Scientist, Research Department, Insightful Corporation, Seattle, WA. |
| 09/1996-06/2001 | Research Assistant, Intelligent Systems Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. |
| Summer 2000 | Research Intern, Data Analysis and Products Division, MathSoft Inc. (currently Insightful Corporation), Seattle, WA. |
| Summer 1998 Summer 1999 |
Visiting Researcher, Tampere International Center for Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland. |
Honors and Awards
- Listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 2006, 2007.
- CAREER Award given by the TUBITAK (Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey), 2004.
- Third Prize in the Annual Poster Contest, Ph.D. Category, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, May 1999.
- NATO Science Fellowship, grant for graduate study from the TUBITAK (Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey), 1996.
- Bülent Kerim Altay Award for academic excellence, given by the Department of Electrical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Fall 1994, Spring 1995, Fall 1995.
- Undergraduate fellowship for academic achievement, given by Sabancı Foundation, 1992-1996.
Activities
- Membership
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): Computer Society and Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and Data Fusion Committee, 1996-Present.
- International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR): Technical Committees on Statistical Pattern Recognition, Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition, Remote Sensing, Graph-Based Representations, Data Mining, 2001-Present.
- Turkish Society for Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition, 2004-Present.
- Executive Board Member and Webmaster for the Turkish-American Student Association at the University of Washington, 1999-2001.
- Editorial Service
- Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition Letters, 2009-Present.
- Guest Editor, Pattern Recognition Letters, Special Issue on Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing, 2009.
- Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Special Issue on Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing, 2007.
- Associate Editor, International Journal of Image and Graphics, 2005-2007.
- Conference Organization
- Chair, 6th Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing (PRRS 2010)
- Workshop Co-Chair, 20th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010)
- Contest Co-Chair, 20th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010)
- Review Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2010)
- Program Committee Member, SPIE Conference on Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing (SPIE RS07 2010)
- Teknik Kurul Uyesi, IEEE 18. Sinyal Isleme ve Iletisim Uygulamalari Kurultayi (Turkish) (SIU 2010)
- Program Committee Member, International Workshop on Validation of Geo-information Products for Crisis Management (VALgEO 2009)
- Program Committee Member, International Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining (SSTDM 2009)
- Co-Chair, ISPRS Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing (PEPRRS 2009)
- Program Committee Member, ISPRS Workshop on Object Extraction for 3D City Models, Road Databases and Traffic Monitoring - Concepts, Algorithms and Evaluation (CMRT 2009)
- Review Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2009)
- Review Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2009)
- Program Committee Member, 13th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2009)
- Program Committee Member, International Conference on Space Technology (2009)
- Teknik Kurul Uyesi, IEEE 17. Sinyal Isleme ve Iletisim Uygulamalari Kurultayi (Turkish) (SIU 2009)
- Chair, 5th IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing (PRRS 2008)
- Program Committee Member, 19th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2008)
- Program Committee Member, 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Learning and Applications in Multimedia (SLAM 2008)
- Program Committee Member, 23rd International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2008)
- Program Committee Member, 9th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2008)
- Program Committee Member, International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2008)
- Program Committee Member, Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2007)
- Yurutme Kurulu Uyesi ve Program Komitesi Esbaskani, 3. Ulusal Yazilim Muhendisligi Sempozyumu (Turkish) (UYMS 2007)
- Program Committee Member, 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia (SLAM 2007)
- Program Committee Member, SPIE Multimedia Systems and Applications X (2007)
- Program Committee Member, International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2007)
- Program Committee Member, 7th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems (PRIS 2007)
- Program Committee Member, International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2007)
- Co-Chair, 4th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing (PRRS 2006)
- Program Committee Member, 18th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006)
- Program Committee Member, 6th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems (PRIS 2006)
- Program Committee Member, International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2006)
- Organizing Committee Member, Workshop on Spatial/Spatio-Temporal Data Mining and Learning (SDM 2005)
- Assisted in the organization of the Algorithm Performance Contest for the IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 1998 and 2000.
- Institutional Service
- Co-director, RETINA Vision and Learning Group, Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, April 2004-Present.
- Chair, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Technical Committee on Remote Sensing, 2006-2008, 2008-2010.
- Vice-Chair, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Technical Committee on Remote Sensing, 2004-2006.
- Co-Chair, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Intercommission Working Group III/VII on Pattern Recognition for Remote Sensing, 2008-2012.
- Member, Program Improvement Coordination Committee, Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, April 2004-Present.
- Member, Alumni Performance Evaluation Committee, Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, April 2004-Present.
- Member, Summer Practice Committee, Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, December 2005-Present.
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