Mehmet Akçakaya, PhD
Department of Medicine (Cardiovascular Division)
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School

Office: 330 Brookline Avenue
Boston, MA USA
Phone: (617)667-2194
Email: akcakaya AT fas.harvard.edu

Research Interests

Compressed sensing: signal recovery from partial information, information theoretic limits, recovery algorithms

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): reconstruction algorithms for MRI from partial k-space data, randomly undersampled acquisitions

Approximation theory: frame theory, theory of sparse representations, frame constructions, rate-distortion characterization

Coding theory: coding over arbitrary fields, algebraic and soft decision decoding

Information theory: high-dimensional geometric analysis, large deviations theory

About Me

I was born in Istanbul, Turkey. I moved to Montreal for my undergraduate studies at McGill University. I got my PhD degree in May 2010 under the supervision of Professor Vahid Tarokh in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard University. I am currently a research fellow at the Cardiac MR Center of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, working on cardiac MRI with Professor Reza Nezafat .

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