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Dr. Oktem is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Middle East Technical University (METU) and the principal investigator of the Signal Processing And Computational sEnsing (SPACE) Lab. She received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical and electronics engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2007 and 2009, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), IL, USA, in 2014. At UIUC, she was selected to the “List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students”, and was a recipient of the Professor Kung Chie Yeh Endowed Fellowship from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2012, and a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship from 2012 to 2014. Before joining METU, she was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where she worked on the development of novel spectral imaging techniques for high-resolution solar imaging. Her general research area is signal and image processing, with a particular focus on the development of next-generation imaging and sensing technologies for emerging scientific and commercial applications in physical and life sciences, and the characterization of the capabilities brought by these cyber-physical systems. Her research spans the areas of computational imaging, inverse problems, statistical signal and image processing, machine learning, compressed sensing, and optical information processing. She is a member of the IEEE and Optica.

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Muzaffer Kanaan is an Associate Professor of Mechatronics Engineering at Erciyes University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2009. He obtained his B.S. degree from the Eastern Mediterranean University (Famagusta, North Cyprus) in 1994, M.S. degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2008, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 1997 to 2008, he was with Verizon Laboratories (Waltham, Massachusetts, USA), where he was involved in various research and development projects in the area of wireless and fiber-optic communications, resulting in five granted US patents with another three pending. His research interests are mainly in the areas of wireless capsule endoscopy, wearable technologies, and application of wireless communication technology for health and wellness.

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Dr. Çukur received his B.S. degree from Bilkent University in 2003, and his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 2009, both in Electrical Engineering. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at University of California, Berkeley till 2013. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, UMRAM, and Neuroscience Program at Bilkent University. His lab develops computational imaging methods for understanding the anatomy and function of biological systems in normal and disease states. He is the recipient of TUBITAK Career Award (2015), TUBA-GEBIP Outstanding Young Scientist Award (2015), BAGEP Young Scientist Award (2017), IEEE Turkey Research Encouragement Award (2017), Science Heroes Association Young Scientist of the Year Award (2017), METU Prof. Dr. Mustafa Parlar Foundation Research Incentive Award (2019), TUSEB Research Encouragement Award (2021), and he is a senior member of IEEE (2017).

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Dr. Iqbal is an academically sophisticated professional with pioneering career reflecting strong technical expertise flavored with intensive professional teaching and industrial research experience of over two decades. Currently, he is looking after Mechatronics and Robotics programme. His research interests include Robotics, Mechatronics and Control Systems.

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Parvaneh Esmaili is currently Lecturer in Computer Engineering Department at Cyprus International University. Prior to her recent appointment at the CIU, she was a lecturer in Electric-Electronic Department at Near East University and Computer Engineering Department at Girne American University. Dr. Parvaneh Esmaili received her undergraduate in Software Engineering from IRAN AZAD University as well as her master’s degree in Hardware Engineering from the same University and her P.hD in Computer Science at University Teknologi Malaysia in Synchronize control of multiple robot manipulators. Dr. Parvaneh Esmaili published a number of papers in preferred Journals and chapters in books. Also. she presented various academic as well as research-based papers at several national and international conferences. Her current research is on the Deep Learning based classification methods on signals such as EEG signals.