(Last update: September 28, 2016)
I am moving to Cornell University!
I
will be Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a secondary
appointment in Biomedical
Engineering.
My
research interests are in biomedical data analysis, in particular imaging data,
and with an application emphasis on neuroscience and neurology. I use tools
from signal/image processing, probabilistic modeling, statistical inference,
computer vision, computational geometry, graph theory, and machine learning to
develop algorithms that allow us to learn from and exploit large-scale
biomedical data.
I will be recruiting graduate students
and post-docs for my brand new lab at Cornell Engineering. We will officially
start in the summer of 2017. If you are considering applying to Cornell for
graduate school (ECE or BME)
and have research interests that overlap with mine, please indicate this in
your application. Feel free to check out my research
vision statement. If youÕre looking for a post-doc position, see my advertisement.
I
received a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University,
where my dissertation work focused on
the image processing problem of establishing spatial correspondence across
multiple clinical scans. I then moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) to do a post-doc at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL),
where I worked with Polina Golland
on biomedical image analysis.
In
the coming year I will transition from a faculty position at A.A Martinos
Center for Biomedical Imaging (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard
Medical School) to Cornell.
*Pronunciation
of my last name: saboundjou
What's in a name?
Mert:
Brave, manly, red-blooded, manful, chivalrous. Borrowed from the Persian word merd and is commonly used in modern day Turkish. A good
pronunciation can be found here: http://forvo.com/word/mert/
Rory:
Anglicized form of the Irish name Ruaidhri, which
means "red king" from Irish ruadh
"red" combined with r’ "king".
This apparently was the name of the last high king of Ireland, reigning in the
12th century.
Sabuncu:
Maker or seller of soap. Sabun has its roots in
Lingua-Franca and literally means soap in many different languages, including
Turkish. "cu" is a Turkish suffix that denotes profession.