Electrical & Electronics Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1984

Electrical & Electronics Engineering, METU, 1981

Electrical & Electronics Engineering, METU, 1976

Atatürk Highschool, Ankara

Dr. Civanlar is Vice Rector at Ozyegin Univ., Istanbul. He was a VP in DOCOMO USA Labs, Palo Alto, 2006 - 2008, and a visiting Prof. of Computer Engineering at Koc Univ., Istanbul, 2002- 2006. He is on advisory boards of Vidyo Inc., USA and Argela Tech. Inc., Turkey.

Research Dept. at AT&T Labs-Research, where he worked since '91. Prior to that, he was at Pixel Machines Dept. of Bell Labs. His career started in the Center for Comm. and Signal Proc. of NCSU, upon receiving his ECE PhD in 84 from the same university. He received his BS and MS degrees in EE from METU, Turkey.

He has numerous publications, several contributions to international standards, and over forty patents. He is a recipient of 1985 Senior Award of the ASSP. His current research interests include networked video and multimedia with emphasis on the Internet and wireless systems.

Dr. Civanlar is a Fulbright scholar and a member of Sigma Xi. He served as an editor for IEEE Trans. on Comm. and Trans. on Multimedia, JASP and EURASIP Image Comm. He served as a member of MMSP and MDSP TCs of the Sig. Proc. Society. Dr. Civanlar is a fellow of IEEE.