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Murat Tekalp, Ph.D.
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BiographyA. Murat Tekalp received B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, and B.S. degree in Mathematics from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in 1980, with the highest honors, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York, in 1982 and 1984, respectively. From December 1984 to August 1987, he was a research scientist, and then a senior research scientist at Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York. He joined the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, as an Assistant Professor in September 1987, where he is currently a Professor. He has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from January 1987 to June 1987, a Visiting Associate Professor at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey from September 1992 to June 1993, and a Visiting Professor at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey from September 1999 to June 2000. His current research interests are in the area of digital image and video processing, including object-based video representations, image/video segmentation, motion tracking, image/video filtering and restoration, image/video compression, multimedia content description, digital watermarking, and secure access. Prof. Tekalp is a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of Sigma Xi. He received the NSF Research Initiation Award in 1988, Fulbright Senior Scholar Award in 1999, and named as Distinguished Lecturer by IEEE Signal Processing Society in 1998. He is listed in Marquis Who'sWho in America Science and Engineering, 4th and 5th editions, and Who'sWho in the World, 17th Edition. He has chaired the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing (Jan. 1996 - Dec. 1997). He is a founding member of IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Signal Processing since 1997. He is also a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Conference Board. He was appointed as the Technical Program Chair for the 1991 IEEE Signal Processing Society Workshop on Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing, the Special Sessions Chair for the 1995 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), the Technical Program Co-Chair for IEEE ICASSP 2000 held in Istanbul, and General Chair for IEEE ICIP 2002 to be held at Rochester, New York. He is the founder and first Chairman of the Rochester Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He was elected as the Chair of the Rochester Section of IEEE in 1994-1995. He has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing (1990-1992), IEEE Trans. on Image Processing (1994-1996), and the Kluwer Journal Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing (1994-2000); an Area Editor for Academic Press Journal Graphical Models and Image Processing (1995-1998). He was on the editorial board of the Academic Press Journal Visual Communication and Image Representation (1995-2000). He has also been guest editor for special issues of Proceedings of the IEEE (on Multimedia Signal Processing, 1998), IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (on Image and Video Processing for Digital Libraries, 1999), Signal Processing: Image Communications (on Real-Time Video over the Internet, 1999), Signal Processing (on Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing, 1992), and Optical Engineering (on Image Restoration and Reconstruction, 1990). At present, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the EURASIP Image Communication Journal, published by Elsevier. Dr. Tekalp is the author of the Prentice Hall book Digital Video Processing (1995) and holds five US patents.
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