Academic Staff

Türker İnce received the B.S. degree from the Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1994, the M.S. degree from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (UMass- Amherst), in 2001 all in electrical engineering. From 1996 to 2001, he was a Research Assistant at the Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory, UMass-Amherst. He worked as a Design Engineer at Aware, Inc., Boston, from 2001 to 2004, and at Texas Instruments, Inc., Dallas, from 2004 to 2006. In 2006, he joined the faculty of Engineering at Izmir University of Economics, Turkey, where he is currently a Professor in Electrical & Electronics Engineering department. His research interests are in the areas of machine learning, pattern recognition, artificial neural networks, signal processing, optimization, biomedical engineering, and remote sensing.

Prof. Levent Eren completed his B.S., M.S., and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering at University of Missouri-USA in 1995, 1998, and 2002 respectively. Upon graduation, he worked at University Missouri and Columbia College as a visiting professor. He took part in R&D efforts of SquareD PowerLogic group between 1998 and 2003. Before joinin Electrical and Electronics Department at Izmir Economics University, he worked as a faculty member of Engineering College at Bahcesehir University between 2003 and 2012. Dr. Erens research interests include motor current signature analysis, power quality, and digital signal processing techniques and he has many conference and journal papers, and patents in these areas.

Sertac Kilickaya received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Izmir University of Economics in 2018 and 2022, respectively, as the class valedictorian. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the same university, where he has also been working as a research assistant since 2019. In 2024, he was a visiting researcher in the Signal Analysis and Machine Intelligence (SAMI) research group at Tampere University, under the supervision of Prof. Moncef Gabbouj. His research focuses on machine learning, mainly applied to condition monitoring and fault diagnosis in electrical machines, as well as other areas of signal processing.

Murat Askar was born in Ankara, Turkey, on 20 September 1952. He received the B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees from Department of Electrical Engineering at Middle East Technical University in 1974 and 1976 respectively, and the Ph. D. degree also in the same university in 1981. He become an assistant at 1974 in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of Middle East Technical University. In the same department, he was promoted as instructor in 1978, assistant professor in 1981, and associate professor in 1984. He become Professor in 1991 in the same department. Since 2010, he is a Professor in İzmir University of Economics. Concurrent to his position in university, he worked as the Head of Electronics Division of Ankara Electronics Research and Development Institute, under Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey. In 1988, he become the Director of this Institute. In 1989-90, he was employed as the Head of Studios Department of Turkish Radio and Television. Besides his position in the university, between 1995-2002, he worked as the Director of Information Technologies and Electronics Research Institute. Between 2002-2003, he worked as the consultant to the President of Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey. He continued his academic research acticities on image prcessing in the Department of Radiological Sciences at University of California, Irvine between Sept 1987-Mar 1988. He worked as consultant at Polly Peck International, London between Jan 1990-July 1990. He initiated several projects in his professional life. He was a member of the team who prepared the feasibility report of HAVELSAN. With Prof. Dr. Abdullah Atalar, he formed the first VLSI Design Center in 1987 upon getting a grant from the Science for Stability Program of NATO. He played an active role for Information Technologies and Electronics Research Institute. getting ISO 9001 certificate when the was its Director. This was the first ISO 9001 certificate given to a government R&D Institute. He was the Project Director of the National Information Infrastructure Master Plan, which was the first plan in Turkey towards Information Society. In 2003, he started the first Low Orbit Earth Observation Satellite project in Turkey. Between 1996-2002, he was the representative of Turkey at the Information, Communication and Computer Policy (ICCP) Committee of OECD. Between 2000-2004, he was a member of the Executive Board of Turkish Radio and Television. He represented Turkish Radio and Television in Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU). Between 2006-2011, he was the Vice Chair of Turkish Informatics Society. In 1987, he received Science Incentive Award from Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey. In 1990, with three colleagues he has been given the 3rd Science Award of Turkish PTT. He is the coauthor of the Turkish books on Communication Systems and Communication Theory. He has several journal and conference papers on electronics, VLSI design, communications, electronic commerce and digital signature. He is married and has two children.

Bülent Bilir earned his B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Boğaziçi University in 1987, M.S. in Control and Computer Engineering from İstanbul Technical University in 1990, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia, MO, USA in 2000. Prior to joining the academia, from 2000 through 2004, he worked as a power systems expert at Siemens and CompuSharp in Silicon Valley, California and Electric Power Group in Southern California. He was with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bahçeşehir University from 2004 through 2009 and with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Istanbul Arel University from 2009 through 2012 as a faculty member. He was a visiting professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA from 2012 through 2014. Dr. Bilir is currently a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at İzmir University of Economics. His research interests include computational methods for power systems, power-flow analysis, stability and control of power systems, and renewable energy. He is a member of the IEEE and its societies of Power Engineering and Control Systems.

Mehmet Türkan is currently a faculty member at the Faculty of Engineering of Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey. From Jan 2013 to Jul 2015, he was a full-time researcher at Technicolor Research & Innovation Center, Cesson-Sévigné, France, where he was a post-doctoral researcher between Nov 2011 and Dec 2012. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from INRIA -Bretagne Atlantique Research Center- and University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France, in 2011. He received his M.Sc. and B.Sc. (Hhons) degrees both in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, and Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey, respectively. He was involved with the European Commission (EC) 6th Framework Program (FP6) Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning Network of Excellence (MUSCLE-NoE), EC FP6 Integrated Three-Dimensional Television–Capture, Transmission, and Display Network of Excellence (3-DTV-NoE), and European UltraHD-4U research projects. Dr. Türkan was the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award in the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) and was a nominee for the Best Student Paper Award in the 2011 IEEE-ICIP. His general research interests are in the area of digital signal and image processing, computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Graduate of METU Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department. She has MSc and PhD degrees on AI. She worked as a researcher at METU, Dokuz Eylul University, and Italy National Research Council. She worked in the R&D departments of various Turkish and international consumer electronics companies as a software engineer and manager. Most recently, she led the Software Innovation Division at SONY Spain and UK, and stepped into the consulting and training industry by setting up her own company to share her experience in the field of AI and R&D. She joined Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Izmir University of Economics in 2021. Her research interests are machine learning, deep learning, blockchain technologies, and mobile application development for the IoT.

Aydin Akan was born on January 1967, in Bursa, Turkey. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Uludag, Bursa, in 1988, the M.Sc. degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Program from the Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in 1996. He has been with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Istanbul University between 1996 and 2017, where he was granted Associate Professor position in 2001, and Professor position in 2006 . He was appointed as Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering between March 2017 and January 2020, where he served as the Dean of School of Engineering and Architecture, BAP Coordinator, Director of Biomedical Test and Calibration R&D Center at Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey. Currently he holds a Professor position at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Izmir University of Economics where he serves as the Department Chair. His current research interests include nonstationary signal processing, time-frequency signal analysis, and machine learning methods and their applications to wireless communications and biomedical engineering problems. He is a senior member of the IEEE Signal Processing (SP) and Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMB) Societies, and member of European Signal Processing Association (EURASIP), Biomedical Image and Signal Analytics (BISA) Technical Area Committee. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Elsevier Digital Signal Processing Journal.

Burak Akbugday graduated from Zongulak Bulent Ecevit University, Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2017 as the valedictorian, as well as the salutatorian of the Faculty of Engineering. During his undergraduate studies, he received various grants from TUBITAK and other related institutions. Since 2021, he is studying in the Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering in Izmir University of Economics towards his PhD degree as an integrated-PhD student. He also works at the same department as a research assistant and is currently receiving a scholarship from TUBITAK. His current research is focused on biomedical signal processing, machine learning and deep learning.

Dr. Faezeh Yeganli got B.S in control engineering from Khaje Nasireddin Toosi Technical University in Tehran, Iran in 2006. During her B.S studies in Iran she had an experience of working in research project in the process and Automation lab. Dr. Yeganli completed her M.Sc and Ph.D in Signal and Image Processing in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department at Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU), Cyprus in 2009 and 2015. During studies in Cyprus, she was research and teaching assistant (Circuit II, DSP, Signal and Systems and Control Systems in laboratories) (2008-2015). At 2011, she spent two months in Kingston University, Canada for project management work-shop. After her graduation she joined to Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department at EMU as a part-time lecturer and she was teaching Circuit I and Introduction to C programming. Dr. Yeganli is currently lecturer at Computer Engineering Department in Izmir University of Economics from September 2016. She attended the Poznan University of Technology (Poznan, Poland) as a visiting researcher during summer 2018. Her research interests are signal and image processing, super-resolution , machine learning, deep-learning, neural network and computer vision.