Aydin Akan (Senior Member, IEEE) received a Ph.D. degree in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA,
in 1996. He has been with the
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Istanbul University
between 1996 and 2017. He was appointed as Professor and Chair
of the Department of Biomedical Engineering between March 2017 and January
2020, where he served as the Dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture,
Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey. Currently he holds a professor
position at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Izmir
University of Economics, where he serves as the Department Chair. His
current research interests include nonstationary signal processing, especially Electroencephalogram
(EEG) signal analysis, time-frequency signal processing, artificial
intelligence methods, and their applications to early detection and classification
of neurological and neurodevelopmental diseases, human emotion estimation, biomedical
engineering and machine fault diagnosis systems. He is a senior member of the IEEE
Signal Processing (SP) and Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMB) Societies,
and a member of the European Signal Processing Association (EURASIP). He serves as an Associate Editor of Elsevier
Digital Signal Processing, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience and Electronics and
Signal Processing Journals, and Section Editor of the Franklin Open Journal of
the Franklin Institute.
Aydin Akan (Senior Member, IEEE) received a Ph.D. degree in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA,
in 1996. He has been with the
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Istanbul University
between 1996 and 2017. He was appointed as Professor and Chair
of the Department of Biomedical Engineering between March 2017 and January
2020, where he served as the Dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture,
Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey. Currently he holds a professor
position at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Izmir
University of Economics, where he serves as the Department Chair. His
current research interests include nonstationary signal processing, especially Electroencephalogram
(EEG) signal analysis, time-frequency signal processing, artificial
intelligence methods, and their applications to early detection and classification
of neurological and neurodevelopmental diseases, human emotion estimation, biomedical
engineering and machine fault diagnosis systems. He is a senior member of the IEEE
Signal Processing (SP) and Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMB) Societies,
and a member of the European Signal Processing Association (EURASIP). He serves as an Associate Editor of Elsevier
Digital Signal Processing, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience and Electronics and
Signal Processing Journals, and Section Editor of the Franklin Open Journal of
the Franklin Institute.