Selim Balcisoy
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Sabanci University
ISEA Bio(s) Available:
ISEA2011
Dr. Selim Balcisoy After living in US and Switzerland over 14 years Dr. Balcisoy joined Sabanci University, Istanbul as Faculty in 2004 and founded one of the first visual business analysis companies VisioThink in 2006. His main interest is interactive technologies for visual storytelling and decision-making.
Selim Balcisoy obtained his BS in Electronic Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH) in 1996. He received his PhD in Computer Science with his dissertation Analysis and Development of Interaction Techniques between Real and Synthetic Worlds in 2001 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). Between 2001 and 2004, he was a Senior Research Engineer at Nokia Research Center USA, where he conducted research on mobile graphics. His research interests include Augmented Reality, Virtual Environments, Cultural Heritage and Mobile Graphics. Dr. Balcisoy has (co)authored over 30 publications in refereed international journals and conference proceedings, and has been granted one US patent. Dr. Balcisoy joined Sabanci University’s Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences in 2004 and where he has established the Computer Graphics Laboratory (CGL).
