Bio:

Fatih Porikli received his Ph.D. degree, with specialization in video object segmentation, from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, NY. He is currently a Senior Principal Research Scientist and Project Manager at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge, MA. Before joining MERL in 2000, he developed satellite image applications at Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, CA, in 1999 and 3D systems at AT&T Research Laboratories, Middletown, NJ, in 1997.

His current research interests include pattern recognition, biomedical data analysis, online learning and classification, computer vision, grid and parallel computing, robust and sparse optimization, multimedia processing, and data mining with many commercial applications ranging from surveillance to medical systems to intelligent transportation to automation to visualization.

He is the Associate Editor for two journals; Springer Journal on Machine Vision Applications and Springer Journal on Real-time Image and Video Processing, and guest editing several others. He is the organizer of the 2010 IEEE AVSS Conference as the general chair. He has chaired more than twenty workshops and is a member of the organizing committees of several flagship conferences including ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, ISVC, ICIP, AVSS, ICME, and ICASSP. He served as Area Chair of CVPR 2009, ICPR 2010, IV 2008, and ICME 2006. He has authored +80 publications and invented +50 patents. He is a judge at NSF panels and keynote speaker in various symposiums. He mentored more than 30 PhD students.

Dr. Porikli was the recipient of the R&D 100 Scientist of the Year Award in 2006, the Best Paper Runner-Up Award at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2007, the Most Popular Scientist Award by Popular Science, Turkey, in 2007, the Superior Invention Award by MELCO, Japan in 2008, MELCO Presidents Award, Japan, in 2007, MERL Directors Award, USA, in 2008, and the MELCO-PUS Research Excellence Award, Japan, in 2009.