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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- Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Eng., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- Thesis: Computational imaging and inverse techniques for high-resolution and instantaneous spectral imaging
- Advisors: Richard E. Blahut, Farzad Kamalabadi
- Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Eng., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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- M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University
- Thesis: Signal Representation and Recovery under Partial Information, Redundancy, and Generalized Finite Extent Constraints
- Advisor: Haldun M. Ozaktas
- M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University
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- B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Eng., Bilkent University
Research Interests
- Computational imaging and image reconstruction
- Inverse problems
- Statistical signal and image processing
- Machine learning
- 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.