====== M. Volkan Atalay ======

I am a professor of Computer Engineering at the [[http://www.metu.edu.tr|Middle East Technical University]] (METU), Ankara, Turkey.\\
I am also Assistant to the President, Middle East Technical University. \\
I have obtained Diplôme de Docteur dans la spécialité Informatique (Ph.D)  from Université René Descartes-Paris V, Paris, France.\\
I spent a year (2004) at [[http://www.vbi.vt.edu|Virginia Bioinformatics Institute]], Virginia Tech, VA, USA during sabbatical leave.

My students and I work primarily in pattern recognition and computer vision. More specifically, we are interested in data classification in bioinformatics and vision based human computer interaction. Our activities take place inside  [[http://www.i-cancer.org|i-cancer Bioinformatics Research Group]].

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Address:\\
Bilgisayar Muhendisligi Bolumu\\
Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi\\
Ankara, TR-06531 Turkiye

__Office__ A Blok, No.404 \\ 
__Phone__ +90 312 210 5576 \\ 
__Fax__ +90 312 210 5544 \\ 
volkan [at] ceng.metu.edu.tr