Faculty Profile - Yucel Altunbasak

Professor
Digital Signal Processing

Phone: 404.385.1341
Fax: 404.894.7883
Office: Cent 5238

http://www.ece.gatech.edu/research/labs/MCCL

Biography

Yucel Altunbasak is an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories in July 1996. Meanwhile, he taught at Stanford and San Jose State Universities, as a consulting assistant professor. Dr. Altunbasak joined Gatech in 1999. His research efforts to date resulted in over 130 peer-reviewed publications and 18 patents/patent applications. Some of his inventions have been licensed and were incorporated into products. He has also been actively involved in the industrial development as a senior technical advisor.

Dr. Altunbasak serves as the technical program chair for ICIP-2006. He was an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Signal Processing:Image Communications, and for the Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing. He served as the lead guest editor on two Image Communications special issues on wireless video and video networking, respectively. He is currently serving as a guest editor for the new IEEE Journal on Selected Topics on Signal Processing for the special issue "Network-Aware Multimedia Processing and Communications". He serves as the vice-president for the IEEE Communications Society Multimedia Communications Technical Committee. He has been elected to the IEEE Signal Processing Society IMDSP, MMSP, and BISP Technical Committees. He has served as a co-chair for "Advanced Signal Processing for Communications" Symposia at ICC'03. He also served as a track chair at ICME'03 and ICME'04, as a panel sessions chair at ITRE'03, as a session chair at various international conferences. He is a co-author for two conference papers that received the best student paper awards at ICIP'03 and VCIP'06. He also co-authored a conference paper that has been selected as design finalist at EMBS'2004. He received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. He is a recipient of the "2003 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award" at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Selected Publications, Patents

Research Interests

Multimedia networking and communications
Bioinformatics and signal processing
Image/video coding and processing

Distinctions

Received NSF CAREER award (2002)
Received "Outstanding Junior Faculty Award" at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech (2003)
Co-author for a conference paper that received the "best student paper award" at ICIP 2003
Co-author for a conference paper that received the "best student paper award" at VCIP 2006
Co-author for a conference paper that received the "second place award" at EMBS'04 Design Competition
Technical program chair, IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP'06), Atlanta, GA, 2006
"Advanced Signal Processing for Communications" Symposia co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'03), May 11-15, 2003
Vice-president - North America, IEEE Communications Society Multimedia Communications Technical Society, 1/2004-1/2006
Vice-president - North America, IEEE Communications Society Multimedia Communications Technical Society, 1/2004-1/2006
Elected member, IEEE Signal Processing Society Bio-Imaging and Signal Processing Technical Committee, 5/2004-Present
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 5/26/2002-Present
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 7/31/2003-Present
Area Editor, Signal Processing: Image Communications, 1/1/2001-Present
Associate Editor, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, 6/21/2000-Present
Guest Editor, EURASIP Image Communications Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Wireless Video", 2004
Guest Editor, EURASIP Image Communications Special Issue on "Video Networking", 2005
Multimedia Networking Technical Track Chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'03 & ICME'04)
Panel sessions chair, International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE'03), August 10-13, 2003
Senior Member, IEEE, 2002

Last revised on July 25, 2006.