Mustafa Aksoy joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Fall 2017. Dr. Aksoy received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2015 from the Ohio State University, where he worked as a graduate research associate at the ElectroScience Laboratory. Prior to joining the University at Albany, Dr. Aksoy was a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. His research interests include microwave passive remote sensing of Earth and Space and electromagnetic theory. Dr. Aksoy has been the sole-investigator of several projects supported by NASA, NSF and ORAU, published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal and conference articles, and received NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program, NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate Early Career Faculty, NASA Robert H. Goddard Exceptional Achievement for Engineering, and ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement awards.
Dr. Aksoy is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), and the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society’s Frequency Allocations in Remote Sensing (FARS) Committee.
