Education
Post-Doc: University of Rochester, Electrical and Computer Eng., Rochester, NY, USA, 1994-1995
Ph.D: Bilkent University, Dept of Electrical and Electronics Eng., 1994
M.Sc.: Bilkent University, Dept of Electrical and Electronics Eng., 1990
B.Sc: Middle East Technical University, Dept of Electrical and Electronics Eng., 1988
Research Interests
- Embedded systems
- Medical AI
- Superresolution
- Industrial AI
- Digital Transformation
Publications
Please see https://avesis.metu.edu.tr/bozdagi or google scholar for the full list.
Recent articles
1. K. Ugurlu, G. B. Akar and Y. S. Dogrusoz, "PULSE: A DL-Assisted Physics-Based Approach to the Inverse Problem of Electrocardiography," in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 1328-1339, April 2025, doi: 10.1109/TBME.2024.3501732
2. Karaman, B.K., Dodelzon, K., Akar, G.B., Sabuncu, M.R. (2024). Longitudinal Mammogram Risk Prediction. In: Linguraru, M.G., et al. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2024. MICCAI 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15005. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72086-4_41
3. S. Ozkan, M. A. Selver, B. Baydar, A. E. Kavur, C. Candemir and G. B. Akar, "Cross-Modal Learning via Adversarial Loss and Covariate Shift for Enhanced Liver Segmentation," in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 2723-2735, Aug. 2024
Projects
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Microcalcification and mass detection in mammograms, consultant, 2022-2023
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Evaluation of the Performance of Electrocardiographic Imaging in the Detection of Foci of Premature Ventricular Contraction from Clinical Data, TÜBİTAK International Bilateral Joint Cooperation Program Project, Project member, 2021-2024
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Middle East Technical University Digital Innovation Center, EU IPA Project, Project member, 2021-2025
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Burried Target Detection, ASELSAN, coordinator, 2019-2022
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Architecture and performance Benchmarking studies for Radar Signal Processing, Thales, project member, 2018-2020
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Camera quality measurement for video surveillance systems, Supported by Higher Education Institutions, coordinator, 2018 - 2019
Awards & Grants
IEEE RAB. "IEEE RAB Leadership Award", (11.2001). For stimulating and excellent leadership in Student Activities in the IEEE Turkey Section, IEEE Region 8 and RAB Student Activities.
IEEE Turkey Distinguished Service Award, 2019. For great contributions as a branch manager and a member of board of management in IEEE Turkey.
METU Technopolis Achievement Award. For university-industry cooperation.
Courses / Laboratories
Biography
Prof. Dr. Gözde Bozdağı Akar is a professor at Middle East Technical University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. She is also a member of METU DTX OCU and co-director of the Smart-Flexible Manufacturing Systems Laboratory. Prof. Akar received her BS degree from METU, and her MS and PhD degrees from Bilkent University, all in electrical and electronics engineering . She was a visiting researcher at the University of Rochester and the Electronic Imaging Systems Center between 1994-1996, and worked as a research and technical staff member at the Xerox Digital Imaging Technologies Center between 1996-1998. She worked at the Cornell Weill Medical School, Department of Radiology, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory between September 2023 and June 2024. She has been the coordinator/project member of various national and international projects such as NATO SCI 298 RTG, Mobile 3DTV, and iClass. She is the co-chair of the DTSS conference in 2018/2019/2024, member of the EI IPAS Program Committee in 2021/2025, member of the organizing committee of ICIP 2022/2024 and MMSP 2026. Her research interests are medical image analysis, embedded system design, multimodal data analysis and artificial intelligence in digital transformation.