Short Bio
Volkan Isler is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at
Rensselaer 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. In 2008, he received the National Science Foundation's
Young Investigator Award (CAREER).
His research interests are in robotics, sensor networks and
computer vision.
