Deniz Erdogmus Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering 409 Dana Research Center Northeastern University 360 Huntington Ave Boston, MA 02115 Email: MyLastName@ece.neu.edu

I direct the Cognitive Systems Laboratory. Our lab currently focuses on biomedical signal and image processing, including brain computer interfaces, biomedical image segmentation, and behavior analysis from video. I am personally interested in the broader topics of statistical signal processing and inference, information theory, and machine learning. While I enjoy the theoretical questions more, my group performs translational research that takes concepts to prototypes.

Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Research Highlights
Publicity
Instructions for New CSL Members

Current students:
PhD: Asieh Ahani, Sarah Brown, Esra Ataer-Cansizoglu, Nastaran Ghadarghadar, Seyhmus Guler, Hooman Nezamfar, Umut Orhan, Shalini Purwar, Jamshid Sourati, Sheng You, Peng Zhang

Former students; first position (current position, if different and known) - dissertations available on my publications page
Dr. Tian Lan; looking for a postdoc position
Dr. Erhan Bas; postdoc in Gene Myers' group at HHMI Janelia Farms, Ashburn, Virginia (soon moving to GE Research, Schenectady NY)
Dr. Olexiy Kyrgyzov; postdoc in the OpenVIBE2 project at LIST-CEA, Paris, France
Dr. Catherine Huang; postdoc in our project group at OHSU BME Department (now at Intel Energy Research Laboratory, Hillsboro, Oregon)
Dr. Umut Ozertem; researcher at Yahoo Research, Sunnyvale, California (now at Microsoft-Bing)

Former visitors; first position (current position, if different and known)
Jernej Zupanc (Fulbright Scholar); postdoc at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
M. Fatih Talu (TUBITAK scholar); Assistant Professor, Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey

Open positions
I anticipate hiring new research assistantships starting in September 2012 in the area of brain interface and EEG signal processing. If you are interested and if you have a truly exceptional background that you can demonstrate please apply to ECE or Bioengineering for PhD in signal processing and mention me as a potential advisor in your statement of purpose. You may also prompt me when you apply and send me a copy of your materials at that time.

If you are self-funded or have a scholarship, or if you want to apply for an international research experience award from your government/university and you want to work with me, please contact me to discuss compatibility and possible research topics, as well as invitation and reference letters for your scholarship application.

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International undergraduate students seeking summer internships:
Do NOT email me please! I can not accept such applications.
*Amazingly enough, I still get emails about this. Clearly I don't want to work with someone who does not bother to read my website before contacting me anyway...
Undergraduates from IIT, please apply for PhD when you are close to graduating with a BS degree and we will talk then.

Undergraduate students at NU or other institutions in USA:
My group enthusiastically supports undergraduate research activities. If you are interested and willing to put in the extra time to do research and get involved in preparing publications, please come to my office to discuss. This will require regular attendance to group activities and spending dedicated time at the lab.

MS students and applicants:
1) I do not provide project funded research assistantships to MS students except in extremely unusual circumstances (happened only once).
2) As of January 2012, I am not accepting any new students for MS Projects. Unfortunately, I am too busy with existing students who commit to my research activities for the long term and I need to focus on advising them.
3) I am looking for MS students who are interested in doing an MS Thesis. A successful thesis will require at least 16 months, so please come to me to talk about this as soon as you start the program. MS thesis students are expected to publish at least one journal paper at a respected venue as a result of their work.

PhD students and applicants:
1) If you are interested in working with me towards your PhD degree, first you must be admitted to the ECE or Bioengineering PhD program.
2) I do not have the authority to arrange for teaching assistantships (TA); please do not ask for one.
3) Research assistantships (RA) may be available to those who express interest in working with me provided that they are extremely well qualified!!! RA positions are extremely competitive. Please do not send me an email to try your chance; this is not a lottery. If you wish to inquire about your chances of getting an RA, please send me (1) your ranking in some lage-scale national exam in your country such as centralized university entrance exams, (2) any evidence of your superb math/physics backgroud including olymiad activities during high school years or graduation from a selective and specialized science and math oriented high school (e.g. magnet schools in the US, NODET in Iran, Fen Lisesi in Turkey).

If you have an outstanding academic background within your age group & if you are inquisitive & if you are interested in learning and employing the scientific methodology to seek answers to hard questions, get in touch with me earlier in the application process.
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Last partial update on 8 January 2012