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DENIZ GENCAGA

Senior Research Support Specialist

Department of Physics, University at Albany

State University of New York,

Albany, NY,

USA

My research interests involve developing and applying new Bayesian source separation techniques to Infrared Spectra recorded from interstellar clouds by the Spitzer Space Telescope to identify complex organic molecules which are known as Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH species). I am also working in another NASA funded project with Prof. Kevin Knuth where we estimate entropies and other information theoretic quantities from data to identify causal relationships among Earth climate data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP).

PROJECTS:

Senior Research Support Specialist in “Bayesian Source Separation for Astrophysical Spectra: Application to PAHs” funded by NASA,

(PI: Kevin H. Knuth)

Senior Research Support Specialist in “Identifying causal relationships among Earth climate data” funded by two NASA grants,

(PI William B. Rossow and PI Kevin H. Knuth)

Research assistant in “Applications of Independent Component Analysis in Communications, Image Processing and Geophysics” funded by TUBITAK-CNR between 2006-2007

Research assistant in “Applications of Independent Component Analysis in Communications, Image Processing and Geophysics” funded by TUBITAK-CNR between 2002-2004

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Bayesian Data Analysis and Signal Processing with applications in Earth and Space Sciences,

Statistical Signal Processing,

Source Separation,

Astrophysics,

Astrobiology,

Spectral Analysis,

Alpha Stable Distributions.

EDUCATION:

PhD., 2007, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Thesis Title: Sequential Bayesian Modeling of Non-Stationary Non-Gaussian Processes

MEMBERSHIPS:

International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)

American Geophysical Union

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, (IEEE)

AWARDS:

NATO-TUBITAK A2 Research Fellowship in Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’ Informazione “A. Faedo”, Pisa, Italy, between February-July 2004.

Best Student Paper Award, 13^th IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Applications (SIU 2005), Kayseri, Turkey, May 2005.

LOCAL ORGANIZER OF:

27^th International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering (MaxEnt 2007)

REVIEWER OF:

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing,

IEE Proceedings-Vision, Image and Signal Processing,

13^th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2005),

14^th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2006), 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006),

15^th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2007),

27^th International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering (MaxEnt 2007)