Esin Karahan

Esin Karahan

Postdoctoral researcher and data scientist

About

Hi, there! I am Esin. I am a postdoctoral research fellow in Cardiff University Brain Imaging Centre.

I received my BSc degree in electrical-electronics engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey and completed MSc and PhD degrees in Biomedical Engineering Institute of the same university. During my PhD I worked on the integration of EEG-fMRI signals on the cortical surface by decomposing the signals of these modalities on the common and discrimininant subspaces with higher order dimensional methods (tensor). I visited Prof Pedro Valdes-Sosa in Cuban Neuroscience Center to develop Granger Causality methods for the quantification of the brain connectivity over higher number of nodes with tensor regression. Later, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the newly founded Neuroinformatics-Collaboratory in UESTC, Chengdu China with Pedro Valdes-Sosa. In this time I was interested in developing biophysically plausible state-space models for investigating the brain connectivity mostly for fMRI. I started to work as a research associate in CUBRIC in September 2017 and currently I am interested in the integration of behavioural models and the neuroimaging (DWI, FMRI and MEG) data and investigation of features in brain connectome that makes people unique.

Education

  • Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
    PhD in Biomedical Engineering
    • Data integration on common and discriminant subspace
    • High dimensional regression and regularization on brain space
    • Inverse problem for EEG source imaging
    • Decoding of brain signals with machine learning methods
    • Retinotopic imaging
  • Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
    MSc in Biomedical Engineering
    • Autoregressive modeling with exogenous inputs
  • Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
    BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
    • System identification for biomedical signals
    • Signal processing

Professional Experience

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cardiff University (September 2017- continue)
  • Data Science Fellow, Pivigo, UK (March - April 2021)
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UESTC, Chengdu, China (November 2015 - July 2017)
  • Visiting Researcher, UESTC, Chengdu, China (August 2014)
  • Visiting Researcher, Cuban Neuroscience Centre, Havana, Cuba (August - September 2013)
  • Research Assistant, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey (December 2008 - September 2015)