Dr. Hatice Cinar Akakin has joined the Clinical Image Analysis group as a Biomedical Imaging Specialist. Dr. Cinar Akakin received her BS and MS degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Eskisehir Osmangazi University and Anadolu University, in 2000 and 2003 respectively. She got her PhD degree from Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Bogazici University, Turkey, in 2010. She was a teaching and research assistant at Bogazici University, Signal and Image Processing Laboratory (BUSIM) from 2004 to 2010. During her PhD, she got experience in developing algorithms for face image analysis from low level image processing to high level interpretations. Dr. Cinar Akakin’s research interests are in the areas of computer vision, image and video analysis and machine learning.