Electrical Engineering, University of Rochester, 1990

Electrical Engineering, University of Rochester, 1988

Electrical and Electronics Engineering + Physics, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, 1986

Digital video processing, computer graphics

Arif Tanju Erdem received a B.S. degree in electrical and electronics engineering and a B.S. degree in physics from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in 1986. He received an M.S. degree in 1988 and a Ph.D. degree in 1990, both in electrical engineering, from University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA. He was a member of the Research Laboratories of Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York, USA, from 1990 to 1998, where he worked on various aspects of image and video processing. He has co-founded in 1998, and served until 2009 as the CTO of Momentum, A.S., a 3D digital media technologies company established in Istanbul, Turkey. He joined Ozyegin University in 2009, where he has served as Head of the Computer Science Department during 2012-2014, as Dean of the School of Engineering and Director of the Graduate School of Engineering and Science during 2014-2018, and has been serving as Vice Rector for Academic Affairs since 2018. 

Dr. Erdem has served on the ISO-MPEG committee from 1991 to 1998. He was the Chair of the Rochester Chapter of IEEE Signal Processing Society during 1992–1994, the Chair of the Turkey Chapter of IEEE Signal Processing Society during 2012–2014, and the Region 8 Representative for IEEE Signal Processing Society Chapters Committee during 2012–2014. He has served as an Associate Editor for Signal Processing: Image Communication during 2010-2014. He was the Program Co-Chair for 3DTV Conference: Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video, Antalya, Turkey, 2011 and the Conference Co-Chair for IEEE Turkey Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Fethiye, Turkey, 2012.