Ozgur Yilmaz
Education
Ph.D., Princeton University (2001) (Applied and Computational Math.)
B.Sc., Bogazici University (1997) (Mathematics and Electrical Eng.)
Appointments
Director, Pacific Institute for the
Mathematical Sciences, 2022-present
Interim Deputy Director, Pacific Institute for the
Mathematical Sciences, 2021-2022
Deputy Director, Banff
International Research Station (BIRS), 2019-2020
Associate Head, Research, Mathematics,
UBC, 2018-2019
Professor, Mathematics,
UBC, 2014 - present
Associate Professor, Mathematics,
UBC, 2009-2014
Assistant Professor, Mathematics,
UBC, 2004-2009
Avron Douglis Lecturer, Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, 2002-2004
Postdoc, Prog. in Appl. and Comp. Math, Princeton University,
2001-2002
AT&T Labs-Research , Shannon Laboratory, Florham Park, NJ
(Summer 2000)
Siemens Corp. Research , IASP, Princeton, NJ (Summer 1999)
Other affiliations
Data Science Institute (DSI),
UBC
Centre
for Artificial Intelligence Decision-making and Action
(CAIDA), UBC
Institute of Applied Mathematics (IAM), UBC
Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS), UBC
Funding
NSERC Discovery Grant on "Mathematical problems in analysis, processing, and use of deep neural networks in signal processing" (PI) (2023-2028)
UBC Data Science Institute PDF Grant on “A deep learning
approach to analyzing retinal imaging for medical diagnosis
and prediction” (Co-PI) (2020-2021)
PIMS CRG on "High Dimensional Data Analysis" (Co-PI)
(2018-2021)
NSERC Discovery Grant on "Compressed sensing and related
areas: bridging theory with practice" (PI) (2017-2023)
UBC Data Science Institute PDF Grant on “From heuristics to
guarantees: the
mathematical foundations of algorithms for data science ”.
(Co-PI) (2017-2018)
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (PI) (2012-2014)
NSERC Discovery Grant on "Frames, quantization, and compressed sensing" (PI) (2011-2016)
PIMS CRG on Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis (Co-leader) (2011-2013)
NSERC CRD Grant "Dynamic non-linear optimization for imaging in seismic exploration II" (Co-PI) (2009-2016)
NSERC CRD Grant "Dynamic non-linear optimization for imaging in seismic exploration" (Co-PI) (2006-2008)
NSERC Discovery Grant on "Approximation Theory of Quantization of Redundant Expansions" (PI) (2005-2010)