Ercan E. Kuruoglu was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1969. He obtained his MPhil and PhD degrees in Information Engineering at the Cambridge University, in the Signal Processing Laboratory, in 1995 and 1998 respectively. Upon graduation, he joined the Xerox Research Center in Cambridge, Collaborative Multimedia Systems Group. In 2000, he was in INRIA-Sophia Antipolis, with the Ariana Project as an ERCIM fellow. In 2002, he joined ISTI-CNR, Pisa as a permanent member. Since 2006, he is an Associate Professor and Senior Researcher. He was a visiting professor in Georgia Institute of Technology graduate program in Shanghai in Autumn 2007. He was a visiting researcher/lecturer for extended periods in Bogazici University, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey, Xidian University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing in 2002-2006 and for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing in 2005-2009. He is currently in the editorial boards of Digital Signal Processing and EURASIP Journal of Advances in Signal Processing. He was the Technical co-Chair for EUSIPCO 2006. He is also an elected member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Signal Processing Theory and Methods and a Senior Member of IEEE. He is the author of more than 80 peer reviewed publications and holds 4 US and European patents. His research interests are in statistical signal processing and information and coding theory with applications in image processing, astronomy, telecommunications and bioinformatics.