Tell me something about yourself?
I’m Ipek Anil Atalay Appak. I completed my bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey. Meanwhile, I worked as a research assistant in the same place. The main subject of my master’s was about photonics, but in my bachelor’s, I was also interested in image processing and took courses about signal processing.
Why did you apply to the PLENOPTIMA project?
PLENOPTIMA is a multidisciplinary project, and the part of the project I am involved in covers plenty of my interests. It’s an excellent opportunity to integrate photonics and signal/image processing and bring them to life.
What kind of expectations do you have for your research project and the upcoming network training?
In my thesis project, I will construct a general framework for designing computational plenoptic cameras adapted for light field microscopy. In the photonics part of the project, I will optimize metasurface-based masks and then fabricate them. In the signal/image processing part, I will use advanced reconstruction algorithms based on learned reverse imaging CNNs. I look forward to working with experienced people in different fields and learning relevant information by participating in the training events organized by the PLENOPTIMA network.
Anil works as Early Stage Researcher at Tampere University (TAU), Finland, and her research topic is “Wavefront Coding for Computational Plenoptic Cameras”.