Çağlar YARDIM was born in Ankara, Turkey, on December 5, 1977. He received both the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey in 1998 and 2001, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 2007.

    From 1998 to 2000, he was a Research and Teaching Assistant at METU. Between 2000 and 2002, he worked as a Research Engineer at ASELSAN Electronic Industries Inc., Microwave and System Technologies Division. Between 2002-2007, he was a Graduate Research Associate, and between 2007-2010 he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Marine Physical Laboratory, University of California, San Diego (MPL-UCSD). He is currently working as a Assistant Project Scientist at UCSD. His research interests include signal processing, Bayesian filtering, electromagnetic and acoustic propagation, optimization, modeling, and inversion of electromagnetic and acoustic signals.

    He is a member of IEEE and ASA.

Awards

1. ONR Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, 2008.
   
2. URSI Young Scientist Award, URSI General Assembly, Chicago, IL, 2008.
   
3. Best Student Paper Award,  IEEE Radar 2007 Conference, Waltham, MA, 2007.
   
4. Bulent Kerim Altay Best Undergraduate Student Award, METU, Ankara, Turkey, 1998.