Professional Activities

  • Keynote Speaker, International Workshop on Compressed Sensing Theory and its Applications to Radar, Sonar, and Remote Sensing (2015)

  • Technical Co-chair, International Conference on Information Fusion (2013)

  • Technical Program Co-chair, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (2010)

  • Technical Program Co-chair, IEEE Conf. on Signal Proc., Comm., and their Appl. (2006)

  • Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2014- present)

  • Associate editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2012-2014)

  • Associate editor, IEEE Transactions Cybernetics (2012-2014)

  • Guest Editor, Pattern Recognition Letters (2010-2012)

  • Area editor, Journal of Advances in Information Fusion (2009-present)

  • Co-organizer, EURASIP Workshop on Sparsity and Compressive Sensing (2009)

  • Co-organizer, Special Session on “Advances in Sparse Signal Representation,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (2005)

  • Invited Lecturer, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA (2012)

  • Invited Tutorial Lecturer, IEEE Conf. on Signal Proc., Comm., and their Appl. (2010)

  • Invited Lecturer, Inst. for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), Univ. of Minnesota (2005)

  • Invited Speaker, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (2003)

  • Invited Panelist, SPIE Conf. on Algorithms for SAR Imagery (2002-2004,2007)

  • University Research Council Member, Sabancı University (2011-2013)

  • IEEE Bioimaging and Signal Proc. Technical Committee Associate Member (2013-present)

  • Conferences & Meetings Comm. Member, Int. Assoc. for Pattern Rec. (IAPR) (2013-present)

  • ICPR Liaison Committee Member, IAPR (2010-2012)

  • Best paper award jury member, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Proc. (2007-present)

  • Best paper award jury memb., IEEE Conf. Signal Proc., Comm., and their Appl. (2006-09,11,13)

  • Innovation & Creativity Award jury member, Turkish Electronics Industrialists Assoc. (2012)

  • The European Assoc. for Signal Proc. (EURASIP) Liaison Officer for Turkey (2009-present)

  • Project review panel member for TUB¨ ˙ITAK (2006-present)

  • Grant proposal reviewer for the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (2003)

  • Technical Program Committee member or reviewer for the following conferences: IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, SPIE Conference on Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery, EURASIP European Signal Processing Conference, International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, International Conference on Information Fusion, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, IEEE Conf. on Signal Processing, Communications, & their Applications, IEEE Conf. Machine Learning for Signal Processing, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, International Conference on Imaging Theory & Applications, International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing, International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, IEEE International Symp. on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Int. Workshop on Multimedia Content Represent., Classification, & Security, ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference.

  • Technical reviewer for the following journals: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, EURASIP/Elsevier Signal Processing Journal, Inverse Problems, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, The International Journal of Computer Vision, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Springer Signal, Image, and Video Processing.