Ali Bilgin

Biography

Ali Bilgin received the B.S. degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1992, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA, in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA, in 2002. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Radiology and Imaging Sciences at the University of Arizona. He has authored or coauthored more than 300 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings and holds fifteen granted patents, with several additional patents pending. He has served on the organizing committees of numerous conferences and as an Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters from 2010 to 2012, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing from 2010 to 2014, and IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging from 2014 to 2019. His research interests include signal and image processing, image and video coding, data compression, and magnetic resonance imaging.

Degrees

• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering
• University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States
• M.S. Electrical Engineering
• San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States
• B.S. Electronics & Telecom Engineering
• Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

Awards

• Magna Cum Laude Award for the paper “Improved Slice Coverage in Inversion Recovery Radial Balanced-SSFP using Deep Learning”
• Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Spring 2021
• Blue Ribbon Award for the paper “Dedicated Breast CT: Comparative evaluation of multi-scale residual dense network and residual encoder-decoder network for deep learning-driven sparse-view reconstruction”
• Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Spring 2020
• Magna Cum Laude Award for the paper “StackGen-Net: A Stacked Generalization of 3D Orthogonal Convolutional Neural Networks for Improved Detection of White Matter Hyperintensities”
• Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Spring 2020
• Magna Cum Laude Award, for the paper “A Cascaded Residual UNET for Fully Automated Segmentation of prostate and peripheral zone in T2-weighted 3D Fast Spin Echo Images”
• Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Spring 2019
• Magna Cum Laude Award, for the paper “Efficient T2 Mapping of the Carotid Artery using a 3D Stack-of-Stars Variable Flip Angle TSE Pulse Sequence”
• Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Spring 2019
• Magna Cum Laude Award for the paper “Rapid Carotid Artery T2 and T1 Mapping Using a Radial TSE and IR-FLASH Approach”
• Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Summer 2018
• Magna Cum Laude Award, for the paper “A Multi-scale Deep ResNet for Radial MR Parameter Mapping"
• Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Summer 2018
• Magna Cum Laude Award, for the paper “Characterization of Abdominal Neoplasms using a Fast T2 Mapping Radial TSE Technique"
• Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Summer 2018
• Magna Cum Laude Award, for the paper “Radial streaking artifact reduction using phased array beamforming”
• Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Summer 2018
• Excellence at the Student Interface Award, Most Supportive Senior Faculty
• College of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Spring 2016
• Summa Cum Laude Award, for the paper “Improved Slice Coverage in DBIR-FSE with Multi-Band Encoding"
• Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Summer 2015
• Summa Cum Laude Award, for the paper “Isotropic T2 Mapping using a 3D Radial FSE (or TSE) Pulse Sequence"
• Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Summer 2015
• Builder's Day Award
• Biomedical Engineering Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, Spring 2015
• Excellence at the Student Interface Award, Most Supportive Junior Faculty
• College of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Spring 2015
• College of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Spring 2013
• College of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Spring 2012
• Top 10% Paper Recognition for the paper “Lossless Image Compression Using Causal Block Matching and 3D Transform-Domain Collaborative Filtering"
• IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Fall 2014
• Magna Cum Laude Award, for the paper “A Variable Bandwidth Radial Gradient and Spin-Echo (VB-radGRASE) Method for Improved T2 and Fat-Water Parameter Estimation”
• Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Summer 2013
• Magna Cum Laude Award, for the paper “Automated Segmentation of Liver Parenchyma and Blood Vessel with in-vivo Radial Gradient and Spin-Echo (GRASE) Datasets for Characterization of Diffuse Liver Disease”
• Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Summer 2013
• Summa Cum Laude Award, for the paper “Accelerating Encoded Simultaneous Multi Slice MRI with Compressed Sensing”
• Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Summer 2013