Birsen Yazici Associate Professor Department of Electrical, Computer & Systems Engineering & Department of Biomedical Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street Troy, New York 12180-3590 Tel: (518) 276-2905 Fax: (518) 276-6261
	Publications Patents
Research	Radar Imaging and Waveform Design Invariance in Signal Modeling and Image Reconstruction Biomedical Optics Medical Image Analysis and Understanding Industrial Applications
Recent Activities	Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Technical Committee, Multimodality imaging Conference, 2007-2008 SPIE Biomedical Optics; Technical Committee, 2006 IEEE International Radar Conference; Session Chair, 2006 IEEE International Radar Conference, Waveform Design and Diversity; Session co-Chair, 2006 SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Radar Imaging and Waveform Design; Session Chair, 2006 SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Applications of Non-commutative Harmonic Analysis in Imaging; Session Chair, 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Multi-modality Image Reconstruction.
Current Ph.D. Students Current M.S Students	Lu Zhou, An Jin, Geoffrey Basore, John Swoboda, Kaitlyn Voccola Ankur Singhal
Current Postdocs Past Postdocs	Ling Wang, Venky Krishnan Kiwoon Kwon, Evren Yarman, Laurel Reilly-Raska, Trond Varslot, Murat Guven
Past Ph.D. Students	Meltem Izzetoglu, Evren Yarman, Murat Guven, Burak Alacam
Past M.S. Students	Evren Yarman, Burak Alacam, Murat Guven, Il Young Son, Ahmed Serdaroglu, Vivek Venugopal
Past Research Engineers	Il Young Son
Teaching	Undergraduate Fall 2009 : Computational Methods and Algorithms in Imaging Spring 2004~2007, Fall 2008 : Sensing and Imaging Fall 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 : Probability for Engineering Applications Graduate Spring 2008~2009 : Detection and Estimation Theory 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	Tuesdays & Fridays, 11:30am-12:30 pm or by appointment
Acknowledgments	NSF – 0353160; AFOSR - FA9550-04-1-0223; ONR - N00014-04-1-0694; DARPA – FA8750-05-2-0285; US Army Medical Research Material Command, Breast Cancer Research Program – W81XWH-04-0559; NSF Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems, under the Engineering Research Program of the National Science Foundation (Award Number EEC-9986821)