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General Information

Full Name Gozde Unal
Address Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Computer and Informatics Engineering Sariyer 34469 Istanbul, Turkiye

Work Experience

  • 2017 - Present
    Full Professor
    Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Computer and Informatics Engineering
    • Research Focus: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Continual Learning, Uncertainty
    • Leadership Span:
      • 3 research scientists (postdocs, and assistant professor)
      • 17 Master of Science students (14 MSc degrees granted, 3 ongoing)
      • ≥ 50 BSc students and research interns (undergraduate students)
  • 2018 - 2020
    Center Founding Director
    ITU Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Center
    • Leadership Focus: Establishing the ITU AI Center from scratch bringing together a cross-disciplinary team of professors, research scholars as well as securing necessary infrastructure
  • 2015-2017
    Associate Professor
    Computer Engineering, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Istanbul, Turkiye
  • 2007 - 2015
    Associate & Assistant Professor
    Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkiye
  • 2003 - 2007
    Research Scientist
    Siemens Corporate Technology, Princeton NJ, USA
    • Focus Topics: Computer Vision, Computational Medical Imaging
  • 2002 - 2003
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology}, GA, USA
    • Focus Topics: 3-Dimensional Computer Vision, Stereoscopic Imaging
  • 2003 - 2003
    Doctoral Visiting Researcher
    Hewlett Packard Research Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA
    • Focus Topics: 3-Dimensional Computer Vision
  • 2001 - 2001
    Visiting Researcher
    Xerox Corp Labs, Rochester, NY, USA
    • Focus Topics: Pattern Recognition, Spatial Statistics
  • 1998 - 2002
    Research Assistant and Doctoral Student
    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University}, NC, USA
    • Focus Topics: Computer Vision, Variational Techniques in Signal / Image Processing

Education

  • 2002
    PhD
    North Carolina State University, NC, USA
    • Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a PhD minor in Mathematics
  • 1998
    MSc
    Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkiye
    • Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  • 1996
    BSc
    Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkiye
    • Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Honors and Awards

  • European Commission Marie-Curie Alumni Career Award (2016) – Awarded in March (2017).
  • “Best Educator Award”, Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Computer and Informatics (2018).
  • IEEE Turkey “Best PhD Thesis Award” (2017). Awarded to my PhD student Dr. Süheyla Çetin Karayumak, now an assistant professor at Harvard University, Medical School.
  • L’Oreal Young Female Scientist Award in Life Sciences, L’Oreal Turkey (2010).
  • 4 “Best Graduation Thesis" Awards to my students (Ranks 1 and 2 between 2017-2022) at ITU.
  • “Best Computer Vision Thesis Award” (2014). Isra Vision AG, Germany, awarded to MSc thesis of my student R.A. Guler, Sabanci University.
  • Distinguished Young Scientist Award, Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) (2010).
  • Eta Kappa Nu Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society (USA) member (2001- )

Academic Service

  • Associate Editorship
    • EEE Transactions on Image Processing (2019-2022)
    • IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (2008-2013)
  • Organizing Committee
    • MIDL: Medical Imaging with Deep Learning, Int Conference. 2019.
    • MICCAI: Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention. 2016, 2019.
    • ICPR: International Conference on Pattern Recognition. 2010.
    • MICCAI STENT Workshop. 2012. 2013.
    • MICCAI CVII Workshop. 2006. 2008. 2011.
  • Program Committee Member
    • Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
    • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
    • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
    • International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
    • International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
    • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
    • International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)

Patents

  • European Patent Office (EPO)
    Patent No:

    EP1772827 EP1772826 EP1793349
  • United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
    Patent No:

    8,380,644 8,379,957 8,290,247 8,218,910
    8,218,910 8,157,736 8,155,405 8,086,427
    8,069,022 8,064,731 8,005,652 7,991,594
    7,979,244 7,961,944 7,957,591 7,925,087
    7,831,078 7,801,708 7,801,343 7,787,678
    7,720,268 7,711,148 7,623,127 7,561,728
    7,400,767 7,333,105 7,620,226 7,336,401