CURRICULUM VITAE

ALI BILGIN


Biomedical Engineering / Electrical and Computer Engineering / Medical Imaging (Radiology)
The University of Arizona
Thomas R. Keating Building
1657 E. Helen Street
Tucson, AZ 85721, USA

 

Office: Keating 131C
Phone: (520) 626-9414
E-mail: bilgin at arizona.edu
URL: https://www2.engr.arizona.edu/~bilgin

Professional Interests

Digital Signal Processing, Image Processing, Image and Video Compression, Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Education

2002 Doctor of Philosophy, in Electrical Engineering.
The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Minor: Mathematics
1995 Master of Science, in Electrical Engineering.
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.
1992 Bachelor of Science, in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering.
Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Employment

2022-present Associate Department Head, Graduate Studies
Biomedical Engineering
The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
2015-present Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering/Electrical and Computer Engineering/Medical Imaging (Radiology)
The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
2009-2015 Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering/Electrical and Computer Engineering/Medical Imaging (Radiology)
The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
2004-2009 Research Assistant Professor
Department of Medical Imaging (Radiology),
The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
2003-2009 Research Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
2004-2008 Co-founder, DTS AZ Research LLC, Tucson, AZ.
1995-2002 Graduate Research Associate
Signal Processing and Coding Laboratory,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
2001-2002 Graduate Research Associate
Department of Radiology,
The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Summer 1997, 2000 Staff Research Assistant
Theory Division,
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM.
1993-1995 Graduate Research Assistant
DSP and Communications Laboratory,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.
1992-1995 Graduate Teaching Associate
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.

 

Extramural Service

  • Temporary Member, Graduate Faculty, The University of Texas at El Paso, 8/20/2020-8/31/2022.
  • Editorial Board

    Conference Organizing Committee

    Technical Program Committee Membership

    Session Chair

    Reviewer

    Intramural Service

    Honors and Awards

    Memberships

    Current Post-Doctoral Associates

    Current Graduate Students

    Post-Doctoral Associates Supervised

    Graduate Students Supervised

    Publications

    Book Chapters

      B. P. Berman, S. Mandava, A. Bilgin “On Compressed Sensing Reconstruction for Magnetic Resonance Imaging” in Computer Vision in Medical Imaging, C. H. Chen, Ed., World Scientific Publishing, 2013.

      P. Kulkarni, A. Bilgin, M. W. Marcellin, J. C. Dagher, J. H. Kasner, T. J. Flohr , J. C. Rountree, “Compression of Earth Science Data with JPEG2000’’ in Hyperspectral Image Compression, G. Motta, F. Rizzo, and J. Storer, Eds., Springer, 2006.

      A. Bilgin, M. W. Marcellin, “JPEG2000: Highly Scalable Image Compression,” in Handbook on Lossless Compression, K. Sayood, Ed., Academic Press, 2002

    Journal Articles

    Conference Papers

    Other Publications/Presentations

    A. Bilgin, T. P. Trouard, A. F. Gmitro, M. I Altbach, “Randomly Perturbed Radial Trajectories for Compressed Sensing MRI,” Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium Annual Meeting, May 2008.

    T. P. Trouard, J. W. Totenhagen, A. Bilgin, “Compressed Sensing in Diffusion-Weighted Radial-FSE,” Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium Annual Meeting, May 2008.

    A. Bilgin, C. Graff, J. Totenhagen, T. P. Trouard, and M. I. Altbach, “A New Sampling and Reconstruction Method for Magnetic Resonance Imaging,” Arizona Health Sciences Center Frontiers in Biomedical Research Forum, October 2007.

    M. I. Altbach, A. Bilgin, Z. Li, A. F. Gmitro, E. K. Outwater, V. L. Sorrell, A. T. Stopeck, F. I. Marcus, “Novel MRI Methods for Improved Diagnosis of Abdominal and Cardiothoracic Disorders,” Arizona Health Sciences Center Frontiers in Biomedical Research Forum, September 2004.

    K. Krishnan, A. Bilgin, M. W. Marcellin, M. S. Nadar, “Remote Browsing of Medical Images,” Arizona Health Sciences Center Frontiers in Biomedical Research Forum, September 2004.

    Dissertation

    Thesis

    A. Bilgin, "Image Processing and Compression for Intelligent Vehicle/Highway Systems,'' Masters Thesis, San Diego State University, May 1995

    Standards Contributions

    J. H. Kasner, S. S. Shen, T. S. Wilkinson, A. Bilgin, M. W. Marcellin, A. Lan, B. V. Brower, ``Application of JPEG-2000 to Hyperspectral Image Compression,'' ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1, JPEG2000, WG1N1832, August 16, 2000.

    M. Marcellin, A. Bilgin and J. M. Heermans, ``Hyperspectral Image Compression with JPEG 2000,'' ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1, JPEG2000, WG1N1559, December 16, 1999.

    M. Marcellin, T. Flohr, A. Bilgin, D. Taubman, E. Ordentlich, M. Weinberger, G. Seroussi, C. Chrysafis, T. Fischer, B. Banister, M. Rabbani, R. Joshi, ``Report on Core Experiments CodEff4, CodEff5, CodEff7: Reduced Complexity Entropy Coding,'' ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1, JPEG2000, WG1N1312, June 30, 1999.

    Technical Reports

    M. W. Marcellin and A. Bilgin, ``Hyperspectral Image Compression," Signal Processing and Coding Laboratory Final Report, Dept. of E.C.E, University of Arizona, December 14, 1999.

    H. Abut, L. A. Wherry, R.M. Bernardi, Y. Öztürk, M. D. Callaghan, A. Bilgin, D. S. Erickson, A. P. Yznaga. and P. A. Powell, "System Manual Draft: Visual Image Verification for I-15 Reversible High-Occupancy Vehicle Lanes," Digital Signal Processing and Communications Laboratories Progress Report, Department of E.C.E., SDSU, June 22, 1993.

     

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