Banu Onaral
Professor
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems
Drexel University
United States of America
Biography
Banu Onaral is H. H. Sun Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. She received her BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1973 and 1974, respectively, and earned her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. Dr. Onaral joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Biomedical Engineering and Science Institute at Drexel University in 1981. Starting in 1995, she led the strategic planning to transform the Biomedical Engineering and Science Institute into a university-level interdisciplinary school. She served as the Founding Director of the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems since its creation in 1997 to 2014. She currently leads the ‘Global Innovation Partnerships’ initiative as Senior Presidential Advisor at Drexel University.
Research Interest
Functional optical brain imaging, biomedical signal processing, complexity and scaling in biomedical signals, systems, and imaging
Publications
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"B. Yazici, M. Izzetoglu, B. Onaral, N. Bilgutay, Kalman Filtering for Self-Similar Processes. Signal Processing Journal. in press "
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"K. Izzetoglu, S. Bunce, B. Onaral, K. Pourrezzaei, B. Chance., Functional Optical Brain Imaging Using NIR during Cognitive Tasks. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. Special Issue on Augmented Cognition. in press "
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"M. Izzetoglu, A. Devaraj, S. Bunce, B. Onaral, Motion Artifact Cancellation in NIR Spectroscopy Using Wiener Filtering. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. in press "
