University of Missouri

Published on July 7, 2025

Filiz Bunyak Ersoy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Missouri. She is also a core faculty member of the MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics and the MU Materials Science & Engineering Institute. She earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Control and Computer Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, and her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Missouri University of Science and Technology. Dr. Bunyak Ersoy’s research focuses on image processing, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, with applications in biomedical image analysis, material science, and visual surveillance. Her work emphasizes deep learning, motion analysis, and level set methods. She has authored over 100 publications in high-impact journals, conferences, and books, and holds two U.S. patents. Her research has been supported by the Coulter Foundation, the University of Missouri, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and several branches of the U.S. military, including the Naval, Army, and Air Force Research Laboratories. She has served as chair or co-chair for major workshops such as the BIBM Workshop on Machine Learning Approaches in High-Resolution Microscopy Imaging, the ICPR/ICCV Workshop on Analysis of Aerial Motion Imagery, and the IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop. She also serves on the editorial board of ACM Computing Surveys.