A. Murat Tekalp received BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics
from Bogazici University in 1980 with high honors, and the M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York, in 1982 and 1984, respectively. He
has been with Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York, from December 1984 to
June 1987, and with the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, from July
1987 to June 2005, where he was promoted to Distinguished University Professor.
Since June 2001, he is a Professor at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey. He has
been the Dean of Engineering between 2010-2013. His research interests are in the area of digital image and video processing,
including video compression and streaming, motion-compensated filtering, super-resolution, video segmentation, object tracking, content-based video
analysis and summarization, 3D video processing, and software-defined networking..
Prof. Tekalp is a Fellow of IEEE and a member of Turkish Academy of Sciences and
Academia Europaea. He was named as Distinguished
Lecturer by IEEE Signal Processing Society in 1998, and awarded a Fulbright
Senior Scholarship in 1999. He received the TUBITAK Science Award (highest
scientific award in Turkey) in 2004. He has chaired the IEEE Signal Processing
Society Technical Committee on Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing
(Jan. 1996 - Dec. 1997). He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier
journal Signal Processing: Image Communication, and an Associate Editor for the IEEE
Trans. on Signal Processing (1990-1992), IEEE Trans. on Image Processing
(1994-1996), and the Kluwer Journal Multidimensional Systems and Signal
Processing (1994-2002). He was an area editor for the Academic Press Journal
Graphical Models and Image Processing (1995-1998). He was also on the editorial
board of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2007-2010), Academic Press Journal Visual Communication and Image
Representation (1995-2002). He was appointed as the Technical Program Chair for
the 1991 IEEE Signal Processing Society Workshop on Image and Multidimensional
Signal Processing, the Special Sessions Chair for the 1995 IEEE International
Conference on Image
Processing, the Technical Program Co-Chair for IEEE ICASSP 2000 in Istanbul,
Turkey, the General Chair of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
(ICIP) at Rochester, NY in 2002, and Technical Program Co-Chair of EUSIPCO 2005
in Antalya, Turkey. He is the founder and first Chairman of the Rochester
Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He was elected as the Chair of
the Rochester Section of IEEE in 1994-1995.
He authored the Prentice Hall book
Digital Video Processing (1995). Dr. Tekalp holds seven US patents. His group
contributed technology to the ISO/IEC MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 standards. He
participates in several European Framework projects, and is also a project
evaluator for the European Commission and panel member for European Research
Council.