Center Participants

Birsen Yazici
Assistant Professor, Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Education:
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1994
M. S. Mathematics, Purdue University, 1990
B.S. Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, Bogazici University,
Turkey, 1988

Career Highlights
Yazici is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to joining Rensselaer, she was an Assistant Professor at Drexel University (2001-2003) and a Senior Staff Scientist at General Electric Company, Global Research Center (1994-2000).

In addition to being an active researcher, Yazici has received a number of honors and awards including: 12 US Patent awards; IEEE Industrial Applications Society's best paper award in 1997; General Electric Company R&D Center's Management Award for contributions to the 3D computed Tomography, 1999; General Electric Company R&D Center's publication award, 1998; and General Electric Company's R&D Center's bronze patent award, 1995.

Students:
Can Evren Yarman
Murat Guven
Burak Alacam
Ahmed Serdaroglu
Il-Young Son

Post-doctoral associate:
Kiwoon Kwon

Selected Publications:
C.E. Yarman and B. Yazici "Exponential Radon transform inversion based on the harmonic analysis of the Eucledian motion group", Inverse Problems and Imaging, Vol 1(3), pp. 457-479, 2007.

T. Varslot, C.E. Yarman, M. Cheney and B. Yazici "A variational formulation to waveform design for synthetic aperture imaging", Inverse Problems and Imaging, Vol 1(3), pp. 577-592, 2007

B. Yazici, M. Cheney, C.E. Yarman "Synthetic aperture inversion in the presence of noise and clutter", Inverse Problems, Vol. 22, pp.1705-1729, 2006.

K. Kwon, B. Yazici and M. Guven "Two Level domain decomposition methods for diffuse optical tomography", Inverse Problems, Vol. 22, pp. 1533-1559, 2006.

Contact Information:
Birsen Yazici
Department of Electrical and Computing Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 Eighth Street
Troy, N.Y. 12180 USA
(518) 276-2905
yazici@ecse.rpi.edu

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