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
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- 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
- Associate Professor, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey,
Education
- Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 2014
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- Thesis: Computational Imaging and Inverse Techniques for High-Resolution and Instantaneous Spectral Imaging
- Advisors: Richard E. Blahut, Farzad Kamalabadi
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- M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University, 2009
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- Thesis: Signal Representation and Recovery under Partial Information, Redundancy, and Generalized Finite Extent Constraints
- Advisor: Haldun M. Ozaktas
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- B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University, 2007
Research Interests
- Computational imaging (optical, spectral, radar, etc.)
- Physics-informed machine learning
- Inverse problems, image reconstruction
- 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.