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Ibrahim Volkan Isler
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Assistant Professor


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Department Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science

Education:
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
M.S.E., University of Pennsylvania
B.S., Bogazici University



Research:

  • Pursuit-Evasion games in dynamic and complex environment
  • Robotic Sensor Networks: deployment, selection, assignment
  • Robotics: motion planning, collision avoidance, coverage and exploration
  • Human-Robot Interaction

Publications:

  • V. Isler, S. Kannan, and S. Khanna. Randomized Pursuit-Evasion with Local Visibility. SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 1(20):26--41, 2006 
  • V. Isler and R. Bajcsy. The Sensor Selection Problem for Bounded Uncertainty Sensing Models. IEEE Tran. Automation Science and Engineering, 2006. Note: Accepted to the special issue on Distributed Sensing for Quality and Productivity Improvement
  • N. Bisnik, V. Isler, and A. Abouzeid. Stochastic Event Capture Using Mobile Sensors Subject to a Quality Metric. In The Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM), 2006.
  • C. Belta, V. Isler, and G. J. Pappas. Discrete Abstractions for Robot Motion Planning and Control in Polygonal Environments. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 5(21):864--875, 2005.
  • J. Mulligan, V. Isler, and K. Daniilidis. Trinocular Stereo: A New Algorithm and its Evaluation. International Journal of Computer Vision, 47:51-61, 2002

Honors:

  • Dean's Fellow, University of Pennsylvania (1999-2000)
  • Fellow of the Office of the Prime Minister of Turkey (1994-1998)

Professional Activities:

  • Member: IEEE, INFORMS
  • IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2007), Sensors, Instrumentation, and Measurement track co-chair - Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Conference Board (2007-2010)
  • Program Committee Member:
    The 7th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2008), The 13th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2007), IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2006), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems (IROS 2006), Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2006), Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI 2006) 

Contact Information:

Volkan Isler
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Lally 207
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, N.Y. 12180 USA
Phone: (518) 276-6440
Fax: (518) 276-6261
isler at cs dot rpi dot edu
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~isler/
http://rsn.cs.rpi.edu/

 

 

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