Mehmet Akçakaya
Jim and Sara Anderson Chair, Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota
Email: [email protected]
Mehmet Akçakaya was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He went to Robert College for high school, moved to Montreal for undergraduate studies at McGill University, where he graduated with great distinction and Charles Michael Morssen Gold Medal. He got his PhD degree in May 2010 under the supervision of Professor Vahid Tarokh in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard University. Prior to joining the University of Minnesota, he was a post-doctoral fellow at BIDMC CMR Center between 2010–12, and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School between 2012–15.
He is the recipient of an NIH K99/R00 award (2012/15 respectively), an NSF CAREER award (2017), a McKnight Land-Grant professorship (2018), the Guillermo E. Borja Award (2020), an NIH NIBIB Trailblazer Award (2020) and multiple NIH R01 Awards.
Teaching - Style 1
EE 8520
Generative AI, Inverse Problems and Conditional Generation
Fall 2025
University of Minnesota
EE 5561
Image Processing and Applications
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Fall 2016
University of Minnesota
EE 5531
Probability and Stochastic Processes
Fall 2019, Fall 2017
University of Minnesota
EE 3015
Signals & Systems
Spring 2018, Spring 2017
University of Minnesota
EE 5940
Medical Imaging Systems
Spring 2016
University of Minnesota