Volkan Cevher
 Research Scientist Digital Signal Processing Group Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Rice University Duncan Hall, 2026 6100 Main St, MS-380 Houston, TX 77005 713.348.2899 |
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Volkan Cevher received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey in 1999 as a valedictorian. During summer of 2003, he was employed by Schlumberger Doll Research. In Fall 2004, he was the co-recipient of the Center for Signal and Image Processing Outstanding Research Award. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005. He worked a post-doc at Georgia Institute of Technology under the supervision of Dr. James H. McClellan till the end of 2005. Until 2008, he worked with Dr. Rama Chellappa as a research associate on computer vision problems. He is currently working with Dr. Richard Baraniuk at Rice University as a research scientist on compressive sensing problems. His research interests include sensor network problems, compressive sensing, graphical models, Monte-Carlo Markov chain methods (specifically particle filters), and array signal processing.