Mehmet Sezgin was born in Bursa, Turkey, in 1965. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in the Electronic and Communication Engineering department of Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul Turkey, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. He completed his Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University, in 2002.
He worked at Istanbul Technical University as Research Assistant. He has also worked at different institutions of The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) as Researcher, Senior Researcher and Chief Researcher (TUBITAK MAM - Marmara Research Center, TUBITAK UEKAE - National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology, TUBITAK BILGEM - Center Of Research For Advanced Technologies Of Informatics And Information Security).
He completed numerous industrial, governmental and military projects as researcher and Project Leader. His research area is image processing signal processing, multi-sensor system design and automatic detection & classification of buried objects.
There are national and international patent applications with the name of Mehmet Sezgin. He is the author of more than 50 highly cited papers printed in SCI journals and numerous scientific conference papers (Google Scholar citations: 6066, h-index: 12, i10-index: 14). He has been reviewing processes of various scientific journals.
Mehmet Sezgin was national delegate in various international activities such as NATO SCI experts Group and NATO projects in the period of 1999-2014.
He worked at Information Technologies Institute of TÜBİTAK BİLGEM as Institute Deputy Director and Institute Director. Mehmet Sezgin conducted portfolio of TÜBİTAK BİLGEM Information Technologies Institute between 2014 and 2017, consisting of approximately 150 Million USD budget. Currently, he works as Consultant at TÜBİTAK BİLGEM.
He recently taught postgraduate image processing course in the mechatronics department of Yıldız Technical University, in the spring semester of 2019-2020.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
WORK EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION
1992 - 2004
Istanbul Technical University
Aeronautics and Astronautics Faculty , Aeronautical Engineering Department, (PhD)
2010-...
TÜBİTAK BİLGEM, Information Technologies Institute
Researcher, Deputy Director, Director and Consultant
Signal Processing
Image Processing
GPR Data exploitation
1987-1990
Istanbul Technical University
Electrical and Electronic Engineer Faculty, Electronic and Communication Department, (MSc)
1991-2010
TÜBİTAK MAM, Information Technologies Institute,Researcher and Deputy Director
Multi-Sensor Detection Systems
1987-1990
İstanbul Technical University
Electrical and Electronic Engineer Faculty, Research Assistant - Circuit and Systems Branch
1982 - 1986
Istanbul Technical University
Electrical and Electronic Engineer Faculty , Electronic and Communication Department, (BSc)
Artificial Intelligence
Pattern Recognition