I am on sabbatical at Michigan State University until Fall 2008.

Education:

                     Ph.D. Computer Science, Dartmouth College, USA (1993). Thesis: Segmentation and Recognition of Offline Cursive Handwriting.
                   B.S. and B.A. Computer Engineering, Mathematics (double major), Bogazici University, Turkey (1988)
                     Galatasaray High-School, Istanbul, Turkey (1983)

Experience:

Fall 2000 - present:	Sabanci University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences: Assoc. Professor in Computer Science and Engineering program.
1999-2000:	IoFlex, Inc. Ann Arbor, MI, USA: Design and development of image processing and printing/publishing automation software
1996-1998:	IBM Almaden Research Center: Various aspects of document segmentation and recognition problem
1994-1996:	Xerox Imaging Systems, MA (ScanSoft): Automatic document segmentation and benchmarking
Fall 1993 - 1994:	Rockefeller University, USA: Postdoc - Statistical approaches to understanding the human visual system

Research: I work in the general area of Pattern Recognition & Computer Vision. My current research interests are:

Biometrics:

Online, offline signature verification (our system has won the first place at the 1st International Signature Verification Competition, SVC 2004).

Fingerprint verification;

Biometric Cryptosystems; Privacy in biometrics

Handwriting Recog. &

Document Analysis:

Online and offline handwriting recognition;

Document segmentation and layout analysis

Computational

Biology:

Computational approaches to protein folding problem

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