1965 Born 1970-75 Grade school 1975-82 Ankara Ataturk Anadolu High School Ranked 1st junior and senior years Finished 4th in overall 1982 Ranked 3rd in Turkish University Entrance Exam among 408 000 people 1985 Intern in Sweden through IAESTE 1982-86 Bosphorus University, EEE Dept and double major in Physics GPA: 3.76/4.00 Senior Project on Adaptive Line Equalization 1986 Finished Bosphorus Univ. summa cum laude (Ranked 1st in the graduating class throughout the whole univ.) Received full teaching assistantship from Case Western Reserve Univ. 1986-89 MS in the EEAP Dept. at Case Western. (GPA: 4.00/4.00) Thesis in Machine Vision area 1989 The only student to pass the PhD qualifier (i.e. comprehensive exam) 1989-90 Full time engineer at North Coast Automation in Cleveland working for General Electric, doing machine vision 1990-91 Research assistant at Case Western in Neural Nets area 1991-92 Part-time research assistant in the Economics Dept. 1990-92 Part-time engineer at North Coast for General Electric 1991-93 Research asistant for a NASA project in parallel processing 1990-95 PhD at Case Western in the EEAP Dept. (GPA: 4.00/4.00) Advisor Prof. Chris Papachristou from Computer Engineering Dissertation title: Various Perspectives of Loop Pipelining 1993-97 Full time research engineer at General Motors Designed a state of the art VLSI behavioral synthesis software 1996-97 Visionex, partner in a machine vision project at Sise-Cam 1997-01 Lucent Microelectronics, chip design engineer and lead 2001-02 Juniper Networks, staff design engineer 2002 Pulsent, senior VLSI design engineer 2003-04 ARC International, senior systems architect 2004 Nvidia, staff design engineer 2005-06 Bahcesehir University, EEE Dept, assistant prof. 2006 Researcher at Intersil Corp. and Univ. of California Santa Cruz 2006-08 Bahcesehir University, EEE Dept, assistant prof. 2004-08 Bosphorus University, Physics Dept., adjunct faculty 2008-09 Bahcesehir University, CMPE Dept, assoc. chair 2008-10 Bahcesehir University, CMPE Dept, assistant prof. 2008-10 Bahcesehir University, MSEVS program coordinator 2009-10 Advisor to Bahcesehir UYGAR (Transportation Applications Research Center) 2007-17 Consultant at Vestel Vestek Pixellence Group on video processing chips 2007-22 Project reviewer for TUBITAK on TEYDEB, 1001, 1007 projects 2010-14 Ozyegin University, EE Dept, assistant prof. 2011-14 Ozyegin University, RoboKamp coordinator 2011-13 IMES KOSGEB jury member 2012- Elsevier DSP Journal editorial board member 2012 VerySimple2013 VLSI-SoC conference general chair 2014-19 Ozyegin University, EE Dept, associate prof. 2014- IFIP WG10-5 Member 2017 VLSI-SoC conference co-general chair 2017-20 Chair of IEEE Computer Society Turkey 2019- Ozyegin University, EE Dept, full prof. 2019-23 Consultant at Matriksdata on HFT 2020-23 Chair of IEEE Turkey Section 2022- Ozyegin University, director of FBE 2022- Ozyegin University, dean of the school of engineering