Volkan Cevher

Research Associate University of Maryland Institute of Advanced Computer Studies A. V. Williams Bldg., Room 4409 College Park, MD 20742 301.405.1737 vcevher@umd.edu

Volkan Cevher was born in Ankara, Turkey, in 1978. He 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. He is currently working with Dr. Rama Chellappa as a research associate on computer vision problems. His research interests include structure from motion, sensor network management problems (sensor build and placement strategies), Monte-Carlo Markov chain methods (specifically particle filters), target tracking models, adaptive filters, time frequency distributions, fractional Fourier transform, brain-computer interface problems, and array signal processing.