Emre Akbas, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Engineering
Middle East Technical University

Contact Information:

Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü 
    Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi
    Çankaya / Ankara 06800 Turkey
    
    emre at ceng.metu dot edu dot tr
    
    +90 312 210 5522

Education

PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Supervised by Prof Narendra Ahuja, 2011
- Recipient of “COGS/AI Award” from the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
MS, Middle East Technical University (METU), Department of Computer Engineering, Supervised by Prof Fatos Yarman Vural, 2006
- “Best thesis of the year award” by the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences at METU.
BS, Middle East Technical University, Department of Computer Engineering, 2004
- Ranked 1st in the graduating class of 2004.
Ankara Fen Lisesi (Ankara High School of Science), 1999

Publications

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Work Experience

Postdoctoral researcher at the Vision and Image Understanding Lab, UCSB. 2012-2015
Research assistant at the Computer Vision and Robotics Lab., Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, UIUC. 2006-2011
Research intern at the Vision Technology, Inc., Champaign, IL. Summer 2009
Teaching assistant at the Department of Computer Engineering, METU. 2004-2006
Research assistant at the Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Lab., Department of Computer Engineering, METU. 2004-2006
Software engineer at Informatics Institute, METU. 2003-2005
Software development intern at Software Research and Development Center, METU. Summer 2001

Research Grants

TUBITAK 3501 Career Development Grant. October 2017 - October 2020. Budget: 225K ₺.
TUBITAK* Re-integration Fellowship (2232 Yurda Dönüş Araştırma Burs Programı). Jan 2016 - Jan 2018
Tesla K-40 GPU card donated by NVIDIA through the GPU Grant Program. Jan 2016

* TUBITAK: Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

Professional Activities

Program committee member, CVPR 2018.
Refereed papers for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), and Journal of Mathematical Psychology.
Program committee member for Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2012 and 2014.

Honors & Awards

Outstanding reviewer at ACCV 2014. Outstanding reviewers were nominated from over 600 reviewers by Area Chairs based on the quality of their reviews. 2014
Recipient of “COGS/AI Award” from the Beckman Institute. 2010
Research assistantship, sponsored by Prof. Narendra Ahuja, at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, UIUC. 2006-2011
M.S. thesis was given the “Best thesis of the year award” by the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences at METU. 2006
Ranked 1st in class, among 86 BS graduates of the Department of Computer Engineering. 2004
Listed in METU President’s High Honors List in all semesters. 2000-2006
Ranked within the top 0.04% out of 1.5 million candidates taking the national university entrance exam.