Bariscan Yonel

Bariscan Yonel joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University at Albany as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2024. He received a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering in June 2015 from Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in December 2020. From 2021 to 2024, he served as a postdoctoral research associate in the Computational Imaging Group at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 
His research interests span the areas of signal processing, optimization, machine learning, and inverse problems in imaging. He focuses on developing theory and computationally efficient algorithms to solve high dimensional inference problems with performance guarantees, and leveraging advances in data science and artificial intelligence to design novel computational sensing and wave-based imaging methods. 

For more information, please visit Dr. Yonel's homepage.  

Research/Specialty Areas

Imaging, statistical signal processing, machine learning & data science, inverse problems

Selected Publications

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• B. Yonel, N. Choudhury and B. Yazici, "Phaseless multi-static synthetic aperture radar imaging," in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 17, pp. 6134-6147, May 2024, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3396049.
• S. Kazemi, B. Yonel and B. Yazici, "Interferometric passive radar imaging with deep denoising priors," in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 145-156, Feb. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TAES.2023.3261862.
• S. Kazemi, B. Yonel, and B. Yazici. "Unrolled Wirtinger flow with deep priors for phaseless imaging," IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, vol. 8, pp. 609-625, Jul. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TCI.2022.3189217.
• B. Yonel, B. Yazici, "A spectral estimation framework for phase retrieval via Bregman divergence minimization," SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 491-520, Dec. 2022.
• S. Thammakhoune, B. Yonel, E. Mason, B. Yazici and Y. C. Eldar, "Phase-space function recovery for moving target imaging in SAR by convex optimization," IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, vol. 7, pp. 1018-1030, Sep. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TCI.2021.3111580.
• B. Yonel, and B. Yazici. "A deterministic theory for exact non-convex phase retrieval," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 68, pp. 4612-4626, Jul. 2020.
• B. Yonel, I. Son, and B. Yazici. "Exact multi-static interferometric imaging via generalized Wirtinger flow," IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, vol. 6, pp. 711-726, Jan. 2020.
• B. Yonel, and B. Yazici. "A generalization of Wirtinger flow for exact interferometric inversion," SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, vol 12.4, pp. 2119-2164, Dec. 2019.
• B. Yonel, E. Mason, and B. Yazici. "Deep learning for waveform estimation and imaging in passive radar," IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, vol. 13.6, pp. 915-926, Jan. 2019.
• B. Yonel, E. Mason, and B. Yazici. "Deep learning for passive synthetic aperture radar," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 12.1, pp. 90-103, Dec. 2017.