Volkan Isler is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute. Before coming to RPI, he was a post-doctoral researcher at CITRIS at UC Berkeley. He obtained his MSE (2000) and PhD (2004) degrees in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, he was a member of the GRASP Lab and the Theory Group. He obtained his BS degree (1999) in Computer Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. His research interests are in robotics, sensor networks and computer vision.