prof. dr. ir. D. (Deniz) Baskent

Professional Positions:

Prof. Başkent was a Rosalind Franklin Fellow between 2009 - 2014, and has been a professor in the Audiology group of the Otorhinolaryngology Department, UMCG, since 2014.

2014 – Pres.       Full Professor (Hoogleraar), UMCG, RUG
2012 – 2014       Tenure-Track Professor (Adjunct Hoogleraar), UMCG, RUG
2011 – 2012       Associate Professor, UMCG, RUG
2009 – 2011       Assistant Professor, UMCG, RUG
2004 – 2009       Research Scientist
                             Starkey Hearing Research Center, Berkeley, CA, USA 
2003 – 2004       Postdoctoral Scientist
                             House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Education:

1998 – 2003       Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering
                             Univ. Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Thesis: Speech recognition under conditions of frequency-place compression and expansion, supervised by prof. dr. R.V. Shannon.

1996 – 1998       M.S., Electrical and Electronics Engineering
                             Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Master’s Thesis: Surface profile determination from multiple sonar data using morphological processing, supervised by prof. dr. B. Barshan.

1991 – 1996       B.S., Electrical and Electronics Engineering
                             Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Senior Project: Kalman filtering for robotic tracking , supervised by prof. dr. B. Barshan.