Program Committee Member:

Program Committee member, ICPR, 2010.

Co-Guest Editor, SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging: Biometrics Special SectionProgram Committee member, March 2008.

Program Committee member, ICFHR, 2008.

Co-chair (2007,2008), IS&T/SPIE’s Electronic Imaging Symposium - Document Recognition and Retrieval, San Jose, California, USA.

Program Committee member, IS&T/SPIE’s Electronic Imaging Symposium - Document Recognition and Retrieval, San Jose, California, USA (2005-)

Program Committee member, SIU ‘2006, SIU’2009
Program Committee member, ISCIS ‘2003
Program Committee member ,IWFHR ‘2002

Ongoing Theses:

Mehmet Çelik, “Recognition of Online Mathematical Formulas”, expected graduation date, June 2010.

Hanife Kebapçı, “Content Base Image Retrieval”, expected graduation date, August 2009.

Theses Supervised:

Alisher Kholmatov, “Biometric Verification and Biocryptosystems”, PhD thesis, Jan 2008.

Eren Çamlıkaya, “Biometric Verification Using Multiple Modalities”, MS thesis, August 2008.

Elanur Şireli, “A Computational approach to predict contact potential and disulfide bond of proteins”, Sabancı University Master Thesis, 2004.

Alisher Kholmatov, “Biometric identity verification using on-line & off-line signature verification”, Sabancı University Master Thesis, 2003.

Zerrin Işık, “Computational Approaches to Protein Structure Prediction”, Sabancı University Master Thesis, 2003.

Pelin Akan, “Computational approaches to understanding the protein structure”, Sabancı University Master Thesis, 2002.

Recent Seminars:

“All about OCR and Handwriting Recognition”, Bilgi Univesity, 22 Mar. 2007.

“Kişisel Gizlilik ve Biometrik Teknolojiler”, at TÜBİTAK UEKAE, November 11, 2004.

“Biometric Technologies for Identity Verification”, Bilgi Univesity, 16 Dec. 2004.