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 E-mail: yazici@ecse.rpi.edu
Biography	Short Biography
Research	Publications Publications by Area Patents Tutorials Student Thesis
Editorship	Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging (2017-2020) Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2014-present) Associate Editor, SIAM Journal on Imaging Science (2009-2014) Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2007-2012)
Recent Activities	Elevated to IEEE Fellow, 2020 Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society, 2020-2022 Member of IEEE Special Interest Group on Computational Imaging, 2015 Member of NATO panel (SET-186) on passive imaging Elected member of IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Signal Processing Theory and Methods, 2014-2016 Publication Chair, IEEE Radar Conference, 2015, 2010 Tutorial Committee, ICPR 2010 Organizer, IPRPI Workshop on Microlocal Analysis in Imaging, Aug 2-3, 2010.
Current Ph.D. Students	Samia Binte Kazemi, Sean Thammakhoune, Nazia Afroz Choudhury
Current M.S Students	Jianyu Yang, Ziyu Su
Current Postdocs	Bariscan Yonel
Past Postdocs	Kiwoon Kwon, Evren Yarman, Laurel Reilly-Raska, Trond Varslot, Murat Guven, Ling Wang, Venky Krishnan, Xiaolei Lv, Il-Young Son
Past Ph.D. Students	Meltem Izzetoglu, Evren Yarman, Murat Guven, Burak Alacam, Lu Zhou, Ann Jin, Kaitlyn Voccola, Steven Wacks, H. Cagri Yanik, Kaan Duman, Eric Mason, Il-Young Son, Bariscan Yonel
Past M.S. Students	Evren Yarman, Burak Alacam, Murat Guven, Il Young Son, Ahmed Serdaroglu, Vivek Venugopal, Geoffrey Basore, Ankur Singhal, Geoffrey Basore, Theodore Ross, Dewei Hu
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
	Fall 2011, 2015-2017	Signals and Systems
	Fall 2018, 2019, 2020	Introduction to Machine Learning
	Graduate
	Spring 2015, 2018	Radar Imaging
	Spring 2008~2010~2015, 2017, 2020, 2022	Detection and Estimation Theory
	Fall 2009~2010, 2012, 2013	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
Acknowledgments	AFOSR, AFRL, NSF, DARPA, US Army Medical Research, ONR, NRL, NIH, NIST, DHS.