{"id":34,"date":"2015-05-01T16:40:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T13:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/atemizel\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2026-03-30T09:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:48:30","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/atemizel\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 id=\"eventLink\" style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/atemizel\/files\/2021\/08\/AlptekinTemizel_2021b-scaled.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"323\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5>Dr. Alptekin Temizel is a Full Professor at Graduate School of Informatics, Middle East Technical University.<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left\">B.Sc.: \u00a0Electrical and Electronic Eng., METU, Turkey, 1999.<br \/>\nPh.D.: Center for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey, UK, 2006.<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left\">His primary research interests are computer vision, deep learning, GPU computing &#8211; optimization and machine learning system design and deployment.<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/s2\/favicons?domain=http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/intl\/en-US\/scholar\/about.html\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com.tr\/citations?user=3grTeasAAAAJ&amp;hl\">Google scholar profile<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.rgstatic.net\/m\/16024179441150\/images\/favicon.ico\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Alptekin_Temizel\">ResearchGate profile<\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5>Executive Board Member of <a href=\"http:\/\/ogam.metu.edu.tr\/\">METU Center for Image Analysis (OGAM)<\/a>.<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left\">The principal investigator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dlcv.ii.metu.edu.tr\/\">METU Deep Learning and Computer Vision Lab (METU DLCV)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gpuresearch.ii.metu.edu.tr\/\">GPU Research and Education\u00a0Center<\/a>.<\/h5>\n<h5>Deep Learning Institute (DLI) Certified Instructor and DLI University Ambassador<br \/>\n<a class=\"hoverZoomLink\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/atemizel\/files\/2015\/05\/17_DeepLearningInstitute_Logo_R1_RBG_University-Ambassador-01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-202\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/atemizel\/files\/2015\/05\/17_DeepLearningInstitute_Logo_R1_RBG_University-Ambassador-01-241x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"129\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/atemizel\/files\/2015\/05\/17_DeepLearningInstitute_Logo_R1_RBG_University-Ambassador-01-241x300.png 241w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/atemizel\/files\/2015\/05\/17_DeepLearningInstitute_Logo_R1_RBG_University-Ambassador-01.png 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 129px) 100vw, 129px\" \/><\/a><a class=\"hoverZoomLink\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/atemizel\/files\/2017\/12\/NVIDIA_GPU_Research_Center_V_hires_Badge.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-224\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/atemizel\/files\/2017\/12\/NVIDIA_GPU_Research_Center_V_hires_Badge-281x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/atemizel\/files\/2017\/12\/NVIDIA_GPU_Research_Center_V_hires_Badge-281x300.png 281w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/atemizel\/files\/2017\/12\/NVIDIA_GPU_Research_Center_V_hires_Badge.png 684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 141px) 100vw, 141px\" \/><\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Alptekin Temizel is a Full Professor at Graduate School of Informatics, Middle East Technical University. B.Sc.: \u00a0Electrical and Electronic Eng., METU, Turkey, 1999. Ph.D.: Center for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey, UK, 2006. His primary research interests are computer vision, deep learning, GPU computing &#8211; optimization and machine learning system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/atemizel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/atemizel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/atemizel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/atemizel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/atemizel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/atemizel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/atemizel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}