T. Barış Aktemur

Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

E-Mail: baris.aktemur at ozyegin dot edu dot tr

Tel: +90(216)559-23xx

Current Research Projects for Prospective Graduate Students

Research Interests:

• Runtime program generation
• Applications of program generation
• Programming language design and semantics
• Static program analysis and transformation
• Software engineering
• Type theory

Ismail Arı

Ph.D. University of California at Santa Cruz

E-Mail: ismail.ari at ozyegin dot edu dot tr

Tel: +90(216)559-2331

Current Research Projects for Prospective Graduate Students

Research Interests:

• Data stream and complex event processing
• Data mining models and model management
• Web services, Service-oriented computing, web sessions
• Autonomic computing, business process implementation, system integration
• File and storage systems: design of large-scale, networked systems
• Novel caching and prefetching techniques
• Providing Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees for storage and applications
• Computer networks; design of efficient data transfer protocols

Reha Civanlar

Ph.D. North Carolina State University

E-Mail: reha.civanlar at ozyegin dot edu dot tr

Tel: +90(216)559-2320

Research Interests:

• Media delivery over networks: Multimedia data stream delivery techniques over existing networks such as the Internet and designing new architectures for improved services such as videoconferencing, IPTV, 3DTV, VoD, and alike
• Next generation Internet: Designing a new architecture for the Internet of tomorrow to solve problems like real-time, low-delay transport, security, etc.
• Factoring finance in engineering design: Developing design techniques considering the target markets from the beginning

Cenk Demiroğlu

Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology

E-Mail: cenk.demiroglu at ozyegin dot edu dot tr

Tel: +90(216)559-23xx

Current Research Projects for Prospective Graduate Students

Research Interests:

• Text-to-speech synthesis
• Noise-robust automatic speech recognition
• Large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition system development
• Word spotting in massive speech databases
• Embedded text-to-speech and speech recognition
• Speaker identification/verification
• Noise-robust multi-sensor speech coding
• Speech quality and intelligibility enhancement and testing
• Speech analysis, forensic analysis, automatic mood detection
• Automatic speech pathology detection
• Signal processing for hearing aids and cochlear implants

Ali Özer Ercan

Ph.D. Stanford University

E-Mail: ali.ercan at ozyegin dot edu dot tr

Tel: +90(216)559-23xx

Current Research Projects for Prospective Graduate Students

Research Interests:

• Signal processing
• Circuit and system design
• Theory and implementation for future wireless communication applications: Sensor and actuator networks, Cross-layer optimization, System design for reliability in wireless
• CMOS cameras and digital imaging systems
• Image processing and computer vision
• Intelligent vehicles and swarm robotics

Tanju Erdem

Ph.D. University of Rochester

E-Mail: tanju.erdem at ozyegin dot edu dot tr

Tel: +90(216)559-23xx

Current Research Projects for Prospective Graduate Students

Research Interests:

• Image and video processing
• Computer vision and pattern recognition
• Computer graphics, real-time graphics rendering, GPU-based image processing
• 3D face modeling and animation, human body motion capture
• Speech-driven lip, expression, and gesture animation
• Serious games, interactive story telling, game tools development
• Virtual and augmented reality
• Video Compression
• Interactive TV

Rahmi Hezar

Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology

E-Mail: rahmi.hezar at ozyegin dot edu dot tr

Tel: +90(216)559-23xx

Current Research Projects for Prospective Graduate Students

Research Interests:

• Mixed signal system design for machine-human interface including audio and sensors in advanced nano-scale CMOS technologies
• Ultra low power data converters for wide band OFDM radio systems
• Mixed signal systems and analog front ends for medical products with a focus on portable ultra-sound and hearing aid devices
• Digitally assisted analog mixed signal design: developing smart pre-signal conditioning to immunize the system to analog nonlinearities

Yusuf Leblebici (Visiting)

Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

E-Mail: yusuf.leblebici at ozyegin dot edu dot tr

Tel: +90(216)559-2365

Research Interests:

• Digital and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits and VLSI: High-speed low-power circuit design techniques; reduction of substrate noise
• 3D system integration technologies, pipelined data converters Silicon Nanowire Devices: Hybrid fabrication methodologies
• SINW characterization, fault-tolerance and reliability modeling Opti-electronic Sensors and Interfaces: Focal-plane image processing arrays and read-out
• High-data-rate optical links Bio-Electronic Sensors: Multi-electrode arrays and read-out circuits, integrated DNA sensor arrays

M. Oğuz Sunay

Ph.D. Queen’s University

E-Mail: oguz.sunay at ozyegin dot edu dot tr

Tel: +90(216)559-2316

Current Research Projects for Prospective Graduate Students

Research Interests:

• Future Wireless Communications Systems: LTE and Beyond
• Multimedia Communications: Video over Wireless, 3D over Wireless, Streaming and Broadcasting Issues
• Wireless Virtualization
• Wireless Networks: Cooperative Networks, Wireless P2P and P4P Networks, Wireless DCCP
• Cross-Layer Design for Wireless Communications
• Dynamic Resource Allocation in Wireless Communications
• Information Theory
• Finance and Marketing-Driven Communication System Design

Şirin Tekinay

Ph.D. George Mason University

E-Mail: sirin.tekinay at ozyegin dot edu dot tr

Tel: +90(216)559-2380

Research Interests:

• Network Science, Complex Dynamic Systems, Science of Interaction
• Networks of Communication, Sensor and Control systems, Infrastructure systems, Urban Engineering
• Mobility, Location

Murat Uysal (Visiting)

Ph.D. Texas A&M University

E-Mail: murat.uysal at ozyegin dot edu dot tr

Tel: +90(216)559-23xx

Current Research Projects for Prospective Graduate Students

Research Interests:

• Communications theory with special emphasis on wireless applications
• Multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communications
• Space-time coding
• Diversity techniques and coding for fading channels
• Cooperative transmission (relaying, multihop, mesh networks)
• Channel estimation and equalization
• Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
• Cognitive radio
• Wireless optical communications

Çağdaş Atıcı

Ph.D. Koç University

E-Mail: cagdas.atici at ozyegin dot edu dot tr

Tel: +90(216)559-2353

Research Interests:

• Wireless Multimedia Broadcasting
• CDMA
• Cross-Layer Design
• H.264 AVC & Scalable Video Coding
• Fountain Coding
• Multihop Ad-Hoc Networks

Güray Erkol

Ph.D. Groningen University

E-Mail: guray.erkol at ozyegin dot edu dot tr

Tel: +90(216)559-2326

Research Interests:

• Hadron Physics with QCD Sum Rules: Meson-baryon coupling constants, Meson-baryon sigma terms, Spectral properties of spin-3/2 baryons, Finite-width effects on Delta baryons, Spin physics
• Hadron Physics with Lattice QCD: Hadron coupling constants, Spectral properties of baryons

• Phenomenology of high-energy physics: Semi-leptonic B-meson decays, Two-Higgs doublet models, Physics beyond the Standard Model