CRCV Hires New Assistant Professor
CRCV is pleased to announce
Dr. Ulas Bagci has joined our center as an Assistant Professor.
His area of research is bio-medical imaging which ompliments the new UCF College of Medicine as well as other interesting work being pursued at research centers, academic units and several new hospitals in Orlando.
Dr. Bagci was a Staff Scientist at NIH's Center for Infectious Disease Imaging (CIDI) Lab in Radiology and Imaging Sciences (RAD&IS), where he conducted research focused on medical image processing, analysis, and computer vision. Dr. Bagci began his work at NIH in 2010 when he received an Imaging Science Training Program (ISTP) Fellowship in 2010-2012. Prior to joining CIDI in 2010, he was a Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Collaborative Medical Image Analysis Group at the University of Nottingham where he was awarded his PhD in April 2010. In 2009, he was a visiting research scholar at the Medical Image Processing Group at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his BSc and MSc degrees in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Bilkent University, and in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Koc University, Turkey, in 2003 and 2005, respectively. He was the winner of NIH Fellow Award for Research Excellence (FARE) awards in 2012 and 2011. He has received several awards including Best Poster Prize in Molecular Imaging of Infectious Diseases, RSNA Education exhibit, IEEE - Best Student Paper in the IEEE Conference on SIU, 2006. He is also serving as an editorial board member on several journals for image processing and computer vision.
