Emre Akbas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Engineering
Middle East Technical University
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 “Cognitive Science / AI Award” given by 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
Please see this page.
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
Honors & Awards
- “Young Scientist Award” given by the Science Academy, Turkey. 2022
- METU Thesis Of The Year (received it as the advisor), Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, METU, 2022.
- ODTÜ Parlar Vakfı Araştırma Teşvik Ödülü (Research Incentive Award). 2020
- METU Thesis Of The Year (received it as the advisor), Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, METU, 2020.
- Recipient of “Cognitive Science / 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 “METU 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.
Research Grants
- “Young Scientist Awards Program (BAGEP)”, Science Academy, Turkey. 2022-2023.
- Beneficiary in the ERC Starting Grant NONWESTLIT, 2022.
- AWS Cloud Credits for Research, 2019.
- TUBITAK 3501 Career Development Grant. Project page. April 2018 - April 2021.
- 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