I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Middle East Technical University (METU), the principal investigator of the Signal Processing And Computational sEnsing (SPACE) Lab, and a member of METU Signal Processing Group. I received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical and electronics engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2007 and 2009, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Champaign, IL, USA, in 2014. Before joining METU, I was a Visiting Research Assistant and then Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where I worked on the development of novel spectral imaging techniques for high-resolution solar imaging. Since 2015, I have been a faculty member of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, METU, Ankara, Turkey.

My general research area is signal and image processing, with a particular focus on the development of next-generation imaging and sensing technologies for emerging scientific and commercial applications in physical and life sciences, and the characterization of the capabilities brought by these cyber-physical systems. My research spans the areas of computational imaging, inverse problems, statistical signal and image processing, machine learning, compressed sensing, and optical information processing. I teach several courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the area of signal and image processing.

I am a member of the IEEE and Optica. I currently serve as Treasurer for the IEEE SPS Turkey Chapter and member of IEEE Women in Signal Processing Sub-Committee on Grade Elevation, Nominations and Awards. At UIUC, I was selected to the “List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students”, and was a recipient of the Professor Kung Chie Yeh Endowed Fellowship from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2012, and a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship from 2012 to 2014. I have served as reviewer of several journals, and guest editor of special issues in Optics Express and Applied Optics.

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