Ercan E. Kuruoglu

Ercan E. Kuruoglu was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1969. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees both in electrical and electronics engineering from the Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey in 1991 and 1993, respectively and the M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in information engineering from the Cambridge University, in the Signal Processing Laboratory, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. Upon graduation from Cambridge, he joined the Xerox Research Center in Cambridge as a Permanent Member of the Collaborative Multimedia Systems Group. In 2000, he was in INRIA-Sophia Antipolis, with the Ariana Project as an ERCIM Fellow. In 2002, he joined ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy as a Permanent Member. Since 2006, he is an associate professor and a senior researcher. In addition, he was a Visiting Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology graduate program in Shanghai in Autumn 2007. Furthermore, Kuruoglu was a Visiting Researcher/Lecturer for extended periods at the Bogazici University, Izmir Institute of Technology (Turkey), University of Cantabria (Spain), Xidian University, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China). He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing between the period of 2002 to 2006. Currently, he is on the Editorial Board of Digital Signal Processing and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. He has guest edited special issues in various journals on heavy tailed processes, cosmology applications of signal processing, and Bayesian source separation. Kuruoglu was the Special Sessions Chair for EURASIP European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2005 and was the Technical Cochair for EUSIPCO 2006. He is also an Elected Member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Signal Processing Theory and Methods and a Senior Member of the IEEE. Moreover, he is the author of more than 60 peer reviewed publications and holds four US and European patents. His research interests are in statistical signal processing and information and coding theory with applications in image processing, astronomy, telecommunications, intelligent user interfaces, and bioinformatics.

Biography Updated on 26 June 2009

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