Okan Ersoy

Okan Kadri Ersoy
Born	(1945-09-05) September 5, 1945 (age 79) Istanbul, Turkey
Nationality	Turkish
Citizenship	Turkish American Turkey, United States
Alma mater	Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
Known for	Digital signal/image processing and imaging Diffractive optics with scanning electron microscope Fourier-related transforms and time-frequency methods Neural networks, decision trees and support vector machines Optical communications
Spouse	Nihayet Dal Ersoy
Children	Ole Kaan, Lillian Ayla, Devin Attila
Scientific career
Fields	Lasers, Quantum Electronics, Optics and Image Processing
Institutions	Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul Univ. of California at Los Angeles

Okan Kadri Ersoy (born September 5, 1945) is now Professor Emeritus of electrical engineering Formerly, he was a professor of electrical engineering and the director of the Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory at Purdue University, West Lafayette School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of OSA and a Fellow of ISIBM. Ersoy contributed to the research and education in computer science and engineering, physics, artificial intelligence and bioinformatics.

Biography

Ersoy was born on September 5, 1945, in Istanbul, Turkey. ^[1] He received B.S.E.E. degree from Boğaziçi University (Formerly Robert College) in Istanbul in 1967; M.S.E.E. degree in 1968, MS degree in Systems Science and PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1972 respectively, all from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) with specialization on lasers, quantum electronics, optics and image processing.

Research areas

His current research is concentrated in the fields of digital signal/image processing and imaging, neural networks, decision trees and support vector machines, optical communications, networking and information processing, diffractive optics with scanning electron microscope, Fourier-related transforms and time-frequency methods, probability and statistics. He has written a number of books and book sections on signal, image processing and fast transforms.

Books

• Diffraction, Fourier Optics and Imaging - Fourier Related Transforms and Applications Archived 23 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine

References

1. Born on September 5, 1945 in Istanbul, Turkey

External links

• Website at Purdue
• DOI.org
• https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/ecetr/69/
• http://sru.lib.purdue.edu/dir/sru?operation=searchRetrieve&recordSchema=dc&maximumRecords=50&sortKeys=DateCreated,0&recordXpath=&stylesheet=http%3A//www.lib.purdue.edu/research/sru/etd/etd.xsl&ScanClause=&version=1.1&recordPacking=xml&query=adviser+%3D+%22Ersoy%22+and+%22Okan%22 Archived 4 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine
• Some of the selected IEEE publications of Professor O. K. Ersoy