Ahmet Enis Cetin, PhD.

Ahmet Enis Cetin received his Ph.D. in 1987 from the University of Pennsylvania. He was an Assistant Prof. at the University of Toronto between 1987-1989. He was a faculty member at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey from 1987 to 2017. He has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) since 2017. He also has held visiting professor positions at Bellcore (1988), University of Minnesota (1996-1997), and UC San Diego (2016-2017). He has been carrying out research in the areas of theoretical and applied machine learning, signal, image, and video processing, biomedical signal processing, infrared and chemical sensor signal processing in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Erzin and Cetin introduced the concept of adaptive prediction and split vector quantization for Line Spectral Frequency representation. This concept was used in ITU speech coding standards including G.729, G.723.1, and GSM EFR.

He became a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to signal and image recovery. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Signal, Image and Video Processing, Springer-Nature. He received a best paper award for his camera-based wildfire detection work at a conference organized by UNESCO and the Cyprus Presidency of the European Union.  He is one of the co-founders of the multinational smart wide-angle OEM camera company Oncam-Grandeye (https://www.oncamgrandeye.com), UK. He served as the CEO/CTO of Grandeye, Turkey between 2003-2013. Oncam-Grandeye cameras won design and innovation awards in IFSEC, UK, and ISC WEST, Las Vegas, trade fairs.