Ibrahim Volkan Isler

Assistant Professor
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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