Okan Ersoy

Okan Kadri Ersoy (born September 5, 1945) is a professor of electrical engineering and director of 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, artificial intelligence and bioinformatics. He is on the editorial boards of International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalized Medicine and International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design. He is also on the advisory board of IJCBS.

Okan Kadri Ersoy
Born	(1945-09-05) September 5, 1945 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	Liv A. Holseth
Children	Ole Kaan, Lillian Ayla
Scientific career
Fields	Lasers, Quantum Electronics, Optics and Image Processing
Institutions	Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul Univ. of California at Los Angeles

Biography

Ersoy was born on September 5, 1945, in Istanbul, Turkey. 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 many books on signal, image processing and fast transforms.

Books

• Diffraction, Fourier Optics and Imaging

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
• Some of the selected IEEE publications of Professor O. K. Ersoy