Tolga Tasdizen portrait
  • Adjunct Professor, School Of Computing
  • Professor, Elect & Computer Engineering
  • Research Assistant Professor, School Of Computing

Professional Service

  • Brookhaven National Laboratory. Independent Assessment . 02/08/2024 - 02/08/2024
  • National Institutes of Health. BIVT study section . 02/2024 - present
  • Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL) conference . Area chair. 02/2023 - present
  • NIH. BDMA study section . 02/2022 - 02/2023
  • IEEE. Area chair for International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging. 11/01/2021 - present
  • NIH. CIHB study section. 10/2021 - 10/2021
  • IEEE . Associate editor for ISBI conference . 10/2020 - 12/2020
  • MICCAI. Area Chair. 03/2020 - 04/2022
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing . Senior Area Editor. 08/15/2019 - present
  • NIH. Image Guided Intervention and Surgery Study Section February & June 2019, February & October 2020, February 2021, ongoing. 02/2019 - 02/2021
  • IEEE. Role: Program committee . CVPR Workshop Computer Vision for Microscopy Image Analysis. 01/2018 - 04/2020
  • IEEE. Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Big Data: Special Issue on Biomedical Big Data: Understanding, Learning and Applications. 01/2017 - 12/2017
  • Springer. Guest Editor, Springer Machine Vision and Applications Special Issue on Learning and Understanding of Biomedical Big Data. 01/2017 - 12/2017
  • IEEE . Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 07/2016 - 08/15/2019
  • IEEE . Program Committee, SIU . 05/2015 - 05/2017
  • IEEE . Associate Editor, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI). 04/2015 - 12/2018
  • VISAPP. Program Committee, VISAPP. 03/2015 - 12/2018
  • NIH. NIH P41 Scientific Review Panel Member. 06/2012 - 06/2012
  • BMC. BMC Bioinformatics Associate Editor. 05/2012 - 05/2014
  • IEEE. Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society BISP Technical Committee. 02/01/2012 - 12/2017
  • IEEE . Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 02/01/2012 - 02/29/2016
  • NSF. Panelist for National Science Foundation (NSF) Robust Intelligence proposal review. 12/2011 - 12/2011
  • MIAAB. Program Committee, Microscopic Image Analysis with Applications in Biology. 08/2011 - 08/2011

Honors & Awards

  • Outstanding Area Chair,. MICCAI, 10/2022
  • The Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Fellowship for Visiting Scientists and Scientists on Sabbatical Leave. TUBITAK, 10/2014
  • Fellowship for Visiting Scientists and Scientists on Sabbatical Leave. The Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey, 08/2014
  • NSF CAREER award. NSF, 09/2012
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Outstanding Researcher Award. ECE - UofU, 08/2012
  • College of Engineering Outstanding Teacher Award. COE - UofU, 08/2012
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Outstanding Teacher Award, 2010-11. University of Utah, 08/2011
  • Dean’s letter for top instructors in the College of Engineering, Fall 2010. University of Utah, 01/2011
  • Best paper award MICCAI 2010 MedIA special Issue. Elsevier, 09/2010
  • Program chair, Fourth International Workshop on Microscopic Image Analysis with Applications in Biology. NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD, 07/2009

Internal Service

  • COE RPT Committee . 08/2020 - 05/2023. College service.
  • SCI Institute Director search committee . 04/2020 - 07/2020. Other service.
  • AI/ML/Data Science Faculty Search Committee . Chair, 08/2019 - 05/2020. Department service.
  • Chair of EE Undergraduate Committee . 09/2017 - 08/2019. Department service.
  • Undergraduate committee . 09/2015 - 08/2019. Department service.
  • UROP Review Committee . 08/2015 - 12/2018. College service.

Outreach

  • Mentoring high school student Bala Tella . 01/2024 - present
  • Mentoring high school student Joseph Lieskovan . 05/2023 - present
  • Mentoring high school student Sang Hyun Chun. 05/2023 - present
  • Mentoring high school student Baran Cinbis. 06/01/2018 - 08/2019
  • Mentoring high school senior Ada Toydemir as an intern in our Department of Homeland Security Project. 10/2017 - 08/2018
  • Mentoring high school student (Alex Cheng) on image processing . 09/2016 - 05/2017

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