Full Time Faculty
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Serap Kırbız-Şimşek Asst. Prof. Dr. Serap Kırbız Şimşek received the B.Sc. (2002), M. Sc. (2005) and Ph.D. (2013) degrees in Mathematical Engineering, Computer Science and Electronics and Communication Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, respectively. During her PhD, she worked at Philips Research Center, Eindhoven, from 2006 to 2007 on a project titled "Watermarking of AAC Bitstreams". From 2010 to 2011, she worked on "Perceptual Audio Source Separation" as a visiting researcher with the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, USA. As a post-doc, she studied on "Informed Source Separation for Musical Signals" at Gipsa-Lab, Grenoble, France from 2013 to 2014. Her research interests include digital signal processing, pattern recognition, audio watermarking, audio source separation, matrix and tensor decomposition and statistical modelling. Her project titled "Coupled Tensor Factorization for Dialogue Enhancement" is supported by TUBITAK. Serap Kırbız Şimsek has been working as an assistant professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, MEF University, since 2014. Research Interests: Digital signal processing, pattern recognition, audio watermarking, audio source separation, matrix and tensor decomposition, statistical modelling. |
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Prof. Dr. Ahmet Giz earned his Bachelor’s degree at Middle East Technical University in 1975. He did his PhD at University of California, Berkeley under supervision of Prof. Frank H. Shu and with Prof Paul Woodward as co-advisor. His thesis topic was Parker instability in Interstellar Medium. He worked as a researcher in the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory during his work on his thesis topic. Research Interests: Simulation studies on the kinematics of polymerization, copolymerization and ultrasonic depolymerization. |
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Ebru Arısoy-Saraçlar Ebru Arısoy-Saraçlar received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2002, 2004, and 2009, respectively. She worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY from 2010 to 2013. Then she moved to IBM Turkey. At IBM, she worked on developing language modeling approaches for Voice Search and Mobile Dictation applications. Since 2014, she has been working as an assistant professor in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at MEF University, Istanbul, Turkey. Her recent research focuses on applications of speech and language technologies in the field of education and includes spoken language understanding, language modeling and automatic speech recognition. She is currently a member of the IEEE SPS Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee (2020-2022). Research Interests: Spoken language understanding, Language modelling, Automatic speech recognition, Applications of speech and language technologies in the field of education. |
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Diren Erdem Aydın Diren Erdem Aydın received the B.Sc. degree from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) Department, MEF University, in 2019. He ranked first with highest GPA in EEE graduating class. In his undergraduate thesis, he worked on solar energy and autonomous irrigation in the field of Renewable Energy and Embedded Systems. After graduation, he worked as an R&D engineer in the telecommunications sector for a short time, during which time he was interested in the cloud, web connections of high frequency transmitters and the development of the user interface of these |
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Veli Nakçi Veli Nakçi graduated from Fırat University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering 2019. He is a graduate student in ITU Electronics Engineering. |