Figen S. Oktem
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Middle East Technical University (METU)

Office: DZ-04
Phone: +90 (312) 210-2342
E-mail: figeno (at) metu (dot) edu (dot) tr

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Professional Experience

    • Associate Professor, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey,
        Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2020 – Present
    • Assistant Professor, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
        Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2015 – 2020
    • Postdoctoral Research Associate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD, USA
        Heliophysics Science Division,  2014

Education

  • Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 2014
  • M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University, 2009
      • Thesis: Signal Representation and Recovery under Partial Information, Redundancy, and Generalized Finite Extent Constraints
      • Advisor: Haldun M. Ozaktas
  • B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University, 2007

Research Interests

  • Computational imaging (optical, spectral, radar, etc.)
  • Image reconstruction, inverse problems
  • Machine learning
  • Statistical signal and image processing
  • Compressed sensing and sparse representations
  • Optical information processing

My general research area is signal and image processing, with a particular focus on the development of next-generation imaging systems and algorithms for emerging scientific and commercial applications, and the characterization of the capabilities brought by these cyber-physical systems.