School of Engineering

Birsen Yazici
Associate Professor
http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~yazici/

Department Affiliation:

Department of Electrical, Computer, & Systems Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Education:

Ph.D., Purdue University, W. Layfayette, IN
Electrical Engineering

M.S., Purdue University, W. Layfayette, IN
Mathematics

B.S., Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Electrical Engineering and Mathematics

Background:

After completing her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, Dr. Yazici was employed as a senior research scientist at the General Electric Company Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY. During her tenure in industry, she worked on transportation, industrial and medical imaging systems. Her work on industrial systems received best paper award in 1997 given by IEEE Transactions in Industrial Application. She was an Assistant Professor at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA before coming to Rensselaer.

Research Interests:

Dr. Yazici's research interests are statistical signal and image processing, pattern recognition, noncommutative harmonic analysis, inverse problems in radar and medical imaging, in particular optical and X-ray imaging and breast cancer. She holds 12 US patents.