Gozde Bozdagi Akar was born in Ankara, Turkiye (Turkey) ,
in 1967. She received her B.S. degree from Middle East Technical University , Ankara, Turkey,
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Bilkent
University, Ankara,
Turkey, in
1988, 1990 and 1994, respectively, all in electrical and electronics
engineering. She was with the University
of Rochester and Center
of Electronic Imaging Systems
as a visiting research associate from 1994 to 1996. From 1996 to 1998, she
worked as a member of research and technical staff at Xerox Corporation - Digital Imaging
Technology Center,
Rochester. From
1998-1999 she was with Baskent
University, Dept of Elec.
and Electronics Eng. During the summer of 1999, she worked as a visiting
researcher at the Multimedia Labs of NJIT. Currently, she is a full Professor
with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University.
Her research interests are in video representation, processing, manipulatinon,
coding, transmission, 3D video and motion modelling.
She has been an IEEE student member from 1986-1994, an
IEEE member from 1994-1998 and an IEEE senior member since then. She was the
founder and the first chairperson of IEEE Bilkent Student Branch in 1990 which
was the first student branch in Turkey.
From 1990 to 1992, she served as the IEEE Region 8 student representative. In
1995, she was elected as the treasurer of IEEE Rochester Section Signal
Processing Chapter where she became the vice chair in 1996 and chair in 1997.
In 1998, she has been elected as the R8 Vice Chair, Student Activities and in
November 1999 she has been elected as the IEEE RAB Vice Chair, Student
Activites. From 2002 to 2004, she was the Turkey section vice chair and
chair, respectively. In 2006, she has been appointed as the Section Outreach Committee Chair of EAB. She
also served in the Branding AdHoc Committee and RAB/TAB Transnational Committee
during 1999.
She is married to Nail Akar and mother of Berkin and Sarp.
bozdagi@eee.metu.edu.tr