Birsen Yazıcı Professor Department of Electrical, Computer & Systems Engineering & Department of Biomedical Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street JEC 7008 Troy, New York 12180-3590 Tel: (518) 276-2905 Fax: (518) 276-6261
Biography	Short Biography
Research	Publications Publications by Area Patents Tutorials Student Thesis
Editorship	Associate Editor, SIAM Journal on Imaging Science Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Recent Activities	Publication Chair, IEEE Radar 2010 Tutorial Committee, ICPR 2010 Organizer, IPRPI Workshop on Microlocal Analysis in Imaging, Aug 2-3, 2010.
Current Ph.D. Students	An Jin, Zhengmin Li, Li Jia, H. Cagri Yanik, Kaitlyn Voccola, Steven Wacks, Kaan Duman
Current M.S Students
Current Postdocs	Xiaolei Lv
Past Postdocs	Kiwoon Kwon, Evren Yarman, Laurel Reilly-Raska, Trond Varslot, Murat Guven, Ling Wang, Venky Krishnan
Past Ph.D. Students	Meltem Izzetoglu, Evren Yarman, Murat Guven, Burak Alacam, Lu Zhou
Past M.S. Students	Evren Yarman, Burak Alacam, Murat Guven, Il Young Son, Ahmed Serdaroglu, Vivek Venugopal, Geoffrey Basore, Ankur Singhal
Past Research Engineers	Il Young Son
Teaching	Undergraduate
	Spring 2004~2007, Fall 2008	Sensing and Imaging
	Fall 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007	Probability for Engineering Applications
	Graduate
	Spring 2008~2010, 2012, 2013	Detection and Estimation Theory
	Fall 2009~2010, 2012	Computational Methods and Algorithms in Imaging
	Spring 2005	Selected readings in Biomedical Optics
	Fall 2004	Radar Engineering
Education	Ph.D, Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, 1994 MS, Mathematics, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, 1990 BS, Electrical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1988 BS, Mathematics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1988
Positions Held	Research Engineer, GE Global Research Center, Schenectady, NY, Sept 1994-2000 Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University, Jan 2001-June 2003
Office Hours	Mondays & Thursdays, 11:30am-12:30 pm or by appointment
Acknowledgments	AFOSR, AFRL, NSF, DARPA, US Army Medical Research, ONR, NIH, NIST, DHS.