Dr. Bilgin received the B.S. degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, M.S. degree in electrical engineering from San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.Dr. Bilgin’s research interests are in the areas of signal and image processing, and include image and video coding, data compression, and magnetic resonance imaging. He has authored/ co-authored over 100 research papers in these areas and has seven granted and several pending patents. Dr. Bilgin has served on the organizing committees of numerous conferences and was an Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters between 2010 and 2012. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Imaging Processing.