Volkan Cevher Appointed Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at EPFL

At its meeting on December 9-10, the Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology appointed Volkan Cevher a tenure-track assistant professor of electrical engineering at the School of Engineering.

Volkan Cevher’s activities in compressive sensing (CS) represent a significant breakthrough in signal processing. Specifically, his work has made it possible to use signal models that are more structured than the purely sparse models used to date. His approach, which combines machine learning and CS, also offers demonstrable performance guarantees for realistic models with basic applications, for example, in modeling and compressing natural images. Assistant Professor Cevher is being appointed in the context of a scientific partnership between the EPFL and the Idiap Research Institute in Martigny in the wide-ranging field of signal processing.

Born in Ankara (Turkey) in 1978, Volkan Cevher completed a degree in electrical engineering and electronics in 1999 at Bilkent University in Ankara. He continued his studies in the U.S. at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where in 2005 he earned his doctorate in sciences. His dissertation was awarded a prize for excellence in signal processing research by the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Center for Signal and Image Processing Research. From 2005 to 2007, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maryland, then joined Rice University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.