Awards

SENIHA ESEN YUKSEL

REVIEWER

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics.

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.

Information Fusion.

Sensors.

Signal, Image and Video Processing.

Soft Computing.

Conferences: SIU, SAVTEK, Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, IEEE Congress for Evolutionary Computing and others.

AWARDS

Selected by Schiphol International Airport to field test our prototype at an active security checkpoint in 2012, Schiphol Security Innovation Days.

Winner, College of Engineering Outstanding International Student Award, University of Florida , 2010.

1st Place , Innovation through Institutional Integration NSF Contest, UF-NSF I3 program , 2010.

1st Place in Research!Louisville, awarded by the Jewish Hospital , 2005.

Winner, Phyllis M. Meek Spirit of Susan B. Anthony Award, University of Florida , 2008.

Travel award to attend the Grace Hopper Conference, from National Science Foundation (NSF) , 2011.

Travel award from Department of CISE, University of Florida, 2010.

Travel award to attend the Grace Hopper Conference, from Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2010.

Travel award from Graduate Student Council (GSC), University of Florida, 2010.

Travel award from Office of Research, University of Florida, 2010.

Travel award to attend the Google Workshop for Women Engineers, from Google ,2008.

Travel awards to attend CRA-W Grad Cohort, by CRA (Computing Research Association) , 2008 and 2009.

Full assistantship from Dept. of CISE, University of Florida, 2006-2011.

Full assistantship by the CVIP Lab, University of Louisville, 2003-2005.

Listed in Who is Who in American Universities , 2006.

Travel award from Graduate School of University of Louisville, 2005.

Travel award from the International Center of University of Louisville, 2005.

Ranked 153rd in 1.5million students in the university entrance exams, 1999.

1st Place in Ministry of National Education (MEB) writing contest, 1995.

LEADERSHIP & SERVICE

Session Chair, SIU, Trabzon, 2014.

Panel Organizer, Grace Hopper Conference, Baltimore, 2012.

Title: "Securing our borders: are we there yet?"

Speaker in Birds of a Feather, Grace Hopper Conference, Baltimore, 2012.

Title: "How you can make a difference: Bootstrapping efforts toward gender balance?"

Seminar Organizer, CSI:Florida Lab, University of Florida, 2009 - 2010.

Organized the weekly seminars where students from CSI:Florida Lab and professors from other departments and universities are invited to present their latest work.

Graduate Advisor, Society of Women Engineers (SWE), University of Florida, 2009 - 2010.

Organized meetings and facilitated interaction among the graduate members of SWE.
Invited speakers (faculty and professionals) to these meetings.

President, Turkish Student Association at University of Florida, 2006 - 2007.

Facilitated social interaction among Turkish students in Gainesville.
Organized events to introduce Turkish culture to Gainesville community.
Doubled the funds of the association.

Student Member, Society of Women Engineers (SWE), 2004 - Present.

Introduced high school girls to engineering, organized lab tours.
Encouraged women to pursue graduate studies via information sessions.

Student Volunteer at the IEEE Visualization Conference, Austin, Texas, 2004.

ECE representative, University of Louisville Graduate Student Council, 2003 - 2005.

Member, Eta Kappa Nu (national electrical engineering honor society), 2004. Link/Picture

Member, Phi Kappa Phi (honor society), 2004.

Member, MICCAI (Medical Image Computing) Society, 2005.

Member, METU departmental magazine BILTEK, IEEE student section, 2001.

One of the editors and writers of ADA school magazine, 1995 - 1997.