{"id":1,"date":"2017-03-16T18:50:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T18:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/figeno\/?p=1"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:36:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:36:45","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/figeno\/2017\/03\/16\/home\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"su-row\"><div class=\"su-column su-column-size-2-5\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-274\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/figeno\/files\/2017\/03\/fotograf_portre_sevinc-figen_oktem-seven_v3-287x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/figeno\/files\/2017\/03\/fotograf_portre_sevinc-figen_oktem-seven_v3-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/figeno\/files\/2017\/03\/fotograf_portre_sevinc-figen_oktem-seven_v3-978x1024.jpg 978w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/figeno\/files\/2017\/03\/fotograf_portre_sevinc-figen_oktem-seven_v3-768x804.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/figeno\/files\/2017\/03\/fotograf_portre_sevinc-figen_oktem-seven_v3-1467x1536.jpg 1467w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/figeno\/files\/2017\/03\/fotograf_portre_sevinc-figen_oktem-seven_v3-1956x2048.jpg 1956w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/figeno\/files\/2017\/03\/fotograf_portre_sevinc-figen_oktem-seven_v3-624x653.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"su-column su-column-size-3-5\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p>Figen S. Oktem<br \/>\nAssociate Professor<br \/>\nDepartment of Electrical &amp; Electronics Engineering<br \/>\nMiddle East Technical University (METU)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Office: DZ-04<br \/>\nPhone: +90 (312) 210-2342<br \/>\nE-mail: figeno (at) metu (dot) edu (dot) tr<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=DW2sZ_0AAAAJ&amp;hl=tr&amp;oi=ao\">Google Scholar <\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7882-5120\">ORCID<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scopus.com\/authid\/detail.uri?authorId=35103071500\">Scopus <\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webofscience.com\/wos\/author\/record\/1316453\">WoS<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Professional Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li><em>Associate Professor<\/em><strong>, Middle East Technical University<\/strong>, Ankara, Turkey,\n<ul>Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2020 &#8211; Present<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Assistant Professor<\/em><strong>, Middle East Technical University<\/strong>, Ankara, Turkey\n<ul>Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2015 &#8211; 2020<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Postdoctoral Research Associate,<\/em><strong> NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, <\/strong>MD, USA\n<ul>Heliophysics Science Division,\u00a0 2014<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ph.D.\u00a0<\/strong>in Electrical and Computer Eng., <em>Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)<\/em>, 2014\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Thesis: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.proquest.com\/docview\/1652520359?pq-origsite=gscholar&amp;fromopenview=true&amp;sourcetype=Dissertations%20&amp;%20Theses\">Computational Imaging and Inverse Techniques for High-Resolution and Instantaneous Spectral Imaging<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Advisors: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Blahut\">Richard E. Blahut<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ece.illinois.edu\/directory\/profile\/farzadk\">Farzad Kamalabadi<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>M.S.\u00a0<\/strong>in Electrical and Electronics Eng., <em>Bilkent University<\/em>, 2009\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Thesis: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.proquest.com\/docview\/2652592015?pq-origsite=gscholar&amp;fromopenview=true&amp;sourcetype=Dissertations%20&amp;%20Theses\">Signal Representation and Recovery under Partial Information, Redundancy, and Generalized Finite Extent Constraints<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Advisor: <a href=\"http:\/\/kilyos.ee.bilkent.edu.tr\/~haldun\/\">Haldun M. Ozaktas<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>B.S.\u00a0<\/strong>in Electrical and Electronics Eng., <em>Bilkent University<\/em>, 2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"field-label\"><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item odd\">\n<ul>\n<li>Computational imaging (optical, spectral, radar, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Physics-informed machine learning<\/li>\n<li>Inverse problems, image reconstruction<\/li>\n<li>Statistical signal and image processing<\/li>\n<li>Compressed sensing and sparse representations<\/li>\n<li>Optical information processing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional Experience Associate Professor, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2020 &#8211; Present Assistant Professor, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2015 &#8211; 2020 Postdoctoral Research Associate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD, USA Heliophysics Science Division,\u00a0 2014 Education Ph.D.\u00a0in Electrical and Computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4798,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/figeno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/figeno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/figeno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/figeno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/figeno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/figeno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/figeno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/figeno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/figeno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}