Ali Özgür Argunşah

Sabancı University

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Orhanlı, Tuzla, 34956, İstanbul, Turkey

Phone: +90 216 483 90 00 #2306 Fax: +90 216 483 95 50

E-mail: argunsah@su.sabanciuniv.edu

Research Interests

Brain Computer Interfaces, Biomedical Signal Processing, Biomedical Instrumentation, Statistical Signal Processing, Computational Neuroscience, Bioinformatics, Medical Imaging, Computer Vision and Image Processing.

Education

Sabancı University, İstanbul, Turkey

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Graduate Student in Electronics Engineering and Computer Science

2006 –

Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey

Faculty of Engineering

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering

Senior Project: A Portable EEG Recording Device Design

1999 – 2004

Work Experience

• Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Neuroscience Statistics Research Laboratory, 07.2007 – 02.2008

Visiting Researcher

https://neurostat.mgh.harvard.edu/

• Sabancı University, 02.2006 –

Research and Teaching Assistant

http://vpa.sabanciuniv.edu

Involved Projects

• Characterization of Epilepsy, Epilepsy Group, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 2007 –
• Development of Electroencephalography (EEG) Signal Analysis Techniques for Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Systems, Decision and Information Systems Lab., Sabancı University, İstanbul, Turkey, 2007 –
• Drive Safe, Vision and Pattern Analysis Lab., Sabancı University, İstanbul, Turkey, 2006 –

Supervised Projects

• Understanding Human Brain by Playing LEGO, Proj102 Lesson, Sabancı University, 2006 – 2007.
• Automated Puzzle Solving, Proj 102 Lesson, Sabancı University, 2006 – 2007.
• EOG Mouse Project, Proj 102 Lesson, Sabancı University, 2005 – 2006.

Awards and Scholarships

The Turkish Academy of Sciences, Combined Ph.D. Scholarship, 2008-2009.

Wyeht Travel and Education Scholarship, Brain Research Association, 2007.

Best Poster Award, National Biophysics Congress, 2004.

One of Best 50 Graduation Projects of the Year, Interpro, 2004.

Professional Activities

Reviewer for the following Conferences:

ISSPIT’2006 Canada

SIU’2006, 2007 Turkey

Publications

1. Ali Özgür Argunşah, Baran Çürüklü, Müjdat Çetin and Aytül Erçil, “A Novel Feature Extraction Method for Improving P300-Speller Performance”, Applied Neuroscience Conference, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2007.
2. Ali Özgür Argunşah, Baran Çürüklü, Müjdat Çetin and Aytül Erçil, “Factors that Affect Classification Performance in EEG based Brain-Computer Interfaces”, IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications, Antalya, Turkey, 2007. (in Turkish)
3. Batu Akan, Ali Özgür Argunşah, “A Human-Computer Interface (HCI) based on Electrooculogram (EOG) for Handicapped”, IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications, Antalya, Turkey, 2007. (in Turkish)
4. Hüseyin Abut, Hakan Erdoğan, Aytül Erçil, Baran Çürüklü, Hakkı Can Koman, Fatih Taş, Ali Özgür Argunşah, Serhan Coşar, Batu Akan, Harun Karabalkan, Emrecan Çökelek, Rahmi Fıçıcı, Volkan Sezer, Serhan Danış ,“Data Collection with "UYANIK": Too Much Pain; But Gains are Coming”, Biennial on DSP for In-Vehicle and Mobile Systems, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007.
5. Ali Özgür Argunşah, Batu Akan, Aytül Erçil and Uğur Sezerman, “Comparison of Different Feature Extraction Methods on Classification of Gene Expression Data”, IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications, Antalya, Turkey, 2007. (in Turkish)
6. Didem Ağaç, Yiğit Can Arın, Engin Ay, Can Ümit Bekar, Gizem İnak, Namık Karahan, Kerem Seyid, Ali Özgür Argunşah ,“Movement of Computer Mouse with Electro-oculography (EOG)”, BİYOMUT Biomedical Engineering National Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey, 2006. (in Turkish)
7. Ali Özgür Argunşah, “Applications of Biomedical Engineering on Aerospace Engineering: Biomedical Parameters of a Successful Mission”, Ankara 3rd International Aerospace Conference, Ankara, Turkey, 2005.
8. Ali Özgür Argunşah, Süha Yağcıoğlu, Osman Eroğul and Fazıl Duman, “Mobile EEG Acquisition System”, BİYOMUT Biomedical Engineering National Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey, 2004. (in Turkish)