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Volkan Isler is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department, and a resident fellow at the Institute on Environment at the University of Minnesota. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a post-doctoral researcher at CITRIS at UC Berkeley. He obtained his MSE (2000) and PhD (2004) degrees in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, he was a member of the GRASP Lab and the Theory Group. He obtained his BS degree (1999) in Computer Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. In 2008, he received the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Award (CAREER). He is currently co-chairing IEEE Society of Robotics and Automation's Technical Committee on Networked Robots. His research interests are in robotics, sensor networks and computer vision.