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Yasemin Yardimci received her B.Sc and M.Sc degrees from Bogazici University, Department of Electrical Engineering. She received her PhD from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. She taught part-time at Istanbul University, Bilkent University and METU and also worked as a consultant for the Government. She was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Minnesota in 1996. She is presently an associate professor at the Informatics Institute, Modelling and Simulation Program.

Her current research interests include Target Detection, Selection and Tracking, Sensor Fusion, Image Registration, DNA Microarray Image Analysis, Visualization and Computer Graphics,
Human Computer Interaction and Decision Analysis Techniques. She worked in different fields of Signal and Image Processing and taught various level Signal, Image Processing and Computer Graphics Courses as well as courses on Stochastic Processes and Detection and Estimation.

Yasemin Yardimci is the Present Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Chapter and the Past Chair of IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Chapter of Turkey.

She is married to Enis and has a son Sinan.

List of Journal Publications 

• J.A. Cadzow and Y. Yardimci, `Focal Planes,'(invited chapter), J.G. Webster, Ed, Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, March 1999.

• Murat Bagci, Yasemin Yardimci, A. Enis Cetin, ``Moving objectdetection using adaptive subband decomposition and fractional lower order statistics in video sequences,'' Signal Processing, October 2002.

• G. B. Unal, Y. Yardimci, O. Arikan, and A. E. Cetin, 'QR-RLS algorithm for error diffusion of color images', Optical Engineering, Vol. 39 No. 11, pp. 2845-3088, November 2000.

• M.N. Gurcan, Y. Yardimci, A.E. Cetin, R. Ansari, Detection of Microcalcifications in Mammograms Using Higher Order Statistics, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 4, no. 8, pp. 213-216, August 1998.

• Y. Yardimci, J.A. Cadzow and A.E. Cetin, Robust Direction-of-Arrival Estimation in Non-Gaussian Noise, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol.46, No. 5, pp. 1443-1451, May 1998.

• L. Akarun, Y. Yardimci and A. Enis Cetin, Adaptive Methods for Dithering Color Images, IEEE Transactions Image Processing, pp. 950-955, vol.6, no. 7, July 1997.

• E. Cetin, Omer N. Gerek, Y. Yardimci, Equiripple FIR Filter Design by the FFT Algorithm, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp.60-64, March 1997.

• Y. Yardimci and J.A. Cadzow, Direction-of-Arrival Estimation in the Presence of Sensor Model Errors, Journal of the Franklin Institute, pp. 173-182, August 1995.

• Y. Yardimci and J.A. Cadzow, High Resolution Algorithms for Locating Closely Spaced Objects via Infrared Focal Plane Arrays, Optical Engineering, Vol. 33, No. 10, pp. 3315-3323, October 1994.