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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Recipient of L'Oréal Turkey's Female Scientist Award in Life Sciences in 2010; Recipient of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Career Award of European Commission in 2017; Served as a technical program co-chair for MICCAI 2016, Athens, Greece, and MIDL 2019, London, UK.
Research Experience
Postdoctoral fellowship at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (2002-2003); Research Scientist at Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, USA (2003-2007); Visiting Researcher at HPLabs, Palo Alto, CA, and Xerox Labs, Webster, NY; Assistant and Associate Professor at Sabancı University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences (2007-2015); Full Professor at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Computer Engineering since Fall 2015.
Education
Received her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a PhD minor in Mathematics from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, in 2002.
Background
Research interests include AI, computer vision, deep learning, and machine learning. She is a full professor at Istanbul Technical University and one of the founding professors of the new AI & Data Engineering Department.
Miscellany
Currently a member of ITU-AI and the director of the ITU Vision Lab.