Graduated from the Dept. of Computer Engineering of Bogazici University with an MS degree in 2000, a PhD student and research assistant in Perceptual Intelligence Lab of the same dept. since. Major interests are machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision, cognitive science, and particularly visual attention. Major publication: Salah, Alpaydin, Akarun, "A Selective Attention Based Method for Visual Pattern Recognition with Application to Handwritten Digit Recognition and Face Recognition", IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol.24, No.3, pp. 420-425, March 2002.

Home page: http://yunus.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/~salah/