Electrical & Electronics Engineering – (Ph.D.)

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The OzU Doctoral program at the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering is comprised of at least 7 courses, and a minimum of 21 credits, a qualifying exam, thesis proposal and thesis work for students who are admitted with a Master´s degree. Students who are admitted with a Bachelor´s degree, the Doctoral program is comprised of at least 14 courses, and a minimum of 42 credits, two seminar courses, a qualifying exam, thesis proposal and thesis work. According to the YÖK regulations, a Doctoral thesis has to satisfy at least of the below points:

* Make original contribution,
* Develop a new scientific method,
* Apply a known method to a new field.

Faculty

Reha Civanlar

Professor, Dean of Engineering and Director of The Institute of Physical Sciences

Dr. Civanlar is Dean of School of Engineering and Director of the Institute of Physical Sciences at Ozyegin Univ., Istanbul. He was a VP in DOCOMO USA Labs, Palo Alto, 2006 - 2008, and a visiting Prof. of Computer Engineering at Koc Univ., Istanbul, 2002- 2006. He is on advisory boards of Vidyo Inc., USA and Argela Tech. Inc., Turkey.
Before Koc University, he was head of Visual Comm. Research Dept. at AT&T Labs-Research, where he worked since '91. Prior to that, he was at Pixel Machines Dept. of Bell Labs. His career started in the Center for Comm. and Signal Proc. of NCSU, upon receiving his ECE PhD in 84 from the same university. He received his BS and MS degrees in EE from METU, Turkey.
He has numerous publications, several contributions to international standards, and over forty patents. He is a recipient of 1985 Senior Award of the ASSP. His current research interests include networked video and multimedia with emphasis on the Internet and wireless systems.
Dr. Civanlar is a Fulbright scholar and a member of Sigma Xi. He served as an editor for IEEE Trans. on Comm. and Trans. on Multimedia, JASP and EURASIP Image Comm. He served as a member of MMSP and MDSP TCs of the Sig. Proc. Society. Dr. Civanlar is a fellow of IEEE.
E-mail: Reha.Civanlar@ozyegin.edu.tr
Phone: +902165592320

Sirin Tekinay

Professor, Vice Rector for Research and Technology

Dr. Sirin Tekinay comes to Ozyegin University as Vice Rector for Research and Technology. She joined OzU from the US National Science Foundation where, in the last three years, she created two new programs while expanding the communications research program. She is the recipient of the NSF Director's Award for "Excellence in Program Management," and her multidisciplinary program "Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation" and entire team received the Award for "Collaborative Integrative Project." She has been on faculty at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology since 1997, where she is currently an associate professor. She received NJIT's "Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award" in 2003. Before joining the academia, she worked at Bell Labs -Lucent Technologies, and NORTEL. She holds nine patents. Sirin Tekinay received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from George Mason University in 1994. She holds MS (1991) and BS (1989) degrees in Electrical Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. Her current research interests include cross layer wireless communication and network science and engineering, traffic modeling, mobility, connectivity, and location problems, ad hoc and sensor networks. She has authored numerous publications, developed and offered courses. She is on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society, and the editorial board of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials.

E-mail: Sirin.Tekinay@ozyegin.edu.tr

Tanju Erdem

Professor

A. Tanju Erdem was born in Isparta, Turkey, in 1965. He received a B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and a B.S. degree in Physics in 1986 from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. He received an M.S. degree in 1988 and a Ph.D. degree in 1990, both in Electrical Engineering, from University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA. He was a member of the Research Laboratories of Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York, USA, from 1990 to 1998, where he worked on various aspects of video processing including compression, restoration, and motion tracking. He has co-founded and served as the CTO of Momentum A.S., a digital media technologies company established in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1998. He has served on the MPEG committee from 1991 to 1998, where he has participated in the development of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards. He currently serves as the Turkey Chapter Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and as an Associate Editor for Signal Processing: Image Communication. Dr. Erdem holds 8 U.S. patents in the fields of video processing and computer graphics and has authored and co-authored more than 60 technical publications in these fields.

E-mail: Tanju.Erdem@ozyegin.edu.tr

Yusuf Leblebici

Visiting Professor Visiting Professor Visiting Professor

E-mail: Yusuf.Leblebici@ozyegin.edu.tr

Oguz Sunay

Associate Professor

M. Oguz Sunay is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Özyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey since 2009. He was a Research Engineer at Nokia Research Center, USA between 1996-1998, a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, USA between 1998-2001 and a faculty member at Koç University, Turkey between 2001-2009. He received his B.Sc. degree from METU, Turkey and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Queen's University, Canada.
Dr. Sunay's current research interests include cross-layer, spectrally efficient design of wireless systems for multimedia services, adaptive resource allocation techniques, diversity techniques, relay and peer-to-peer networks. He has authored numerous articles in these areas at refereed journals and international conferences and has over 25 US and European patents.
He has served and contributed in various telecommunications standards bodies on cdma2000, 1xEV-DO and 1xEV-DV. Dr Sunay was a guest co-editor for the January 2000 issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine, titled "Telecommunications at the Start of the New Millennium" and served as the co-chair of the Wireless Communications Symposium at the IEEE ICC 2006 conference held in Istanbul. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters in 2000-2005 and an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications in 2004-2006. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

E-mail: Oguz.Sunay@ozyegin.edu.tr
Phone: +(90)216-559-2316

Murat Uysal

Visiting Associate Professor

Murat Uysal was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1973. He received the B.Sc. and the M.Sc. degree in electronics and communication engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1995 and 1998, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, in 2001. Since 2002, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, where he is now an Associate Professor. He is currently on sabbatical leave at Özyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey. His general research interests lie in communications theory and signal processing for communications with special emphasis on wireless applications. Specific research areas include MIMO techniques, space-time coding, diversity techniques and coding for fading channels, cooperative communications, and free-space optical communications.
Dr. Uysal is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Communications Letters. He was a Guest Co-Editor for Wiley Journal on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing's Special Issue on "MIMO Communications" (2004) and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications' Special Issue on "Optical Wireless Communications" (2009). Over the years, he has served on the technical program committee of more than 60 international conferences in the communications area. He recently co-chaired IEEE ICC'07 Communication Theory Symposium and CCECE'08 Communications and Networking Symposium. Dr. Uysal is a Senior IEEE member.

E-mail: Murat.Uysal@ozyegin.edu.tr
Phone: +90 (216) 559 2329

Ali Özer Ercan

Assistant Professor

Ali Özer Ercan received his B.S. degree from Bilkent University in 2000, and the M.S. and the PhD. degrees from Stanford University in 2002 and 2007 respectively, all in electrical engineering. From 2007 until 2009, he was with the Berkeley Wireless Research Center of University of California, Berkeley, for post-doctoral studies. Dr. Ercan joined Özyegin University in September 2009, where he is currently an assistant professor. His research interests include signal and image processing, computer vision and wireless communication networks.
E-mail: Ali.Ercan@ozyegin.edu.tr
Phone: +90 (216) 559-2339

Cenk Demiroglu

Assistant Professor

He obtained an undergraduate degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Bogazici University in 1999 and a PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005. After PhD, he has worked at the R&D groups of three small companies in USA for five years. He played lead role in the development of a large-vocabulary speech recognition system for three years and the development of an embedded text-to-speech synthesis system for one year.
Dr Demiroglu's research and consulting activities are focused on speech recognition, speech synthesis, speech analysis/coding, speech enhancement, and medical applications of the speech processing field.
E-mail: Cenk.Demiroglu@ozyegin.edu.tr

Erdal Bulgan

Assistant Professor

Professor Erdal Bulgan received his Bachelor Science (BSc) degree in Mechanical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, Master of Science (MSc) degree as a Turkish Government Fellow in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA, and Philosophy of Doctorate (PhD) degree as a Japanese Government Fellow in Nanomechanics from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. In his doctoral study, Dr. Bulgan has introduced a Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems, MEMS, actuated optical switch using physical contact of silicon nanowire waveguides. The findings of the study are expected to find numerous application areas for scientists and engineers dealing with nanometer-level motion, distance, and displacement sensing and measurement. In the course of master's study, he has developed a multi-tier client/server architecture to enable the Internet-based Computer Aided Design (CAD) for platform-independent distributed product development. The architecture enabled access to a remote platform-specific shape modeler over the Internet using low priced local computers with limited hardware resources anywhere around the world, which lead to the establishment of a start-up company called "inter3d.com LLC" in the US. Between 2001 and 2005, he was a lecturer at Izmir Institute of Technology, Urla, Turkey, where he has designed and implemented both the software and hardware of a "Reverse Engineering Device: 2½-Dimensional Component Geometry Extraction and Its Transfer into Computer Environment."
Professor Bulgan is currently an assistant professor initiating a nano/micro-scale research platform, Nanoscale Mechanical Systems Research Laboratory, NASREL, where he focuses on Nano-scale Mechanical Sensors and Actuators, Silicon Photonics and Optical MEMS with his group of researchers. Professor Bulgan has recently been awarded the prestigious European Commission's Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant, IRG, Award for his project entitled "NANO-DISP: Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Synchronous Silicon Nanowire Waveguide Displacement Sensors," intended to develop an optical nanometer scale (1 millionth of a millimeter) generic distance and displacement sensor technology. He is presently a member of Optical Society of America (OSA), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) and TMMOB Turkish Chamber of Mechanical Engineers (MMO).

E-mail: Erdal.Bulgan@ozyegin.edu.tr
Phone: +90 216 559 2309

Güray Erkol

Assistant Professor

He received his B.S. in 1999 and M.S. in 2001 in Physics from Middle East Technical University. He worked as a research assistant at METU and as a researcher in Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut (KVI) in the Netherlands. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from University of Groningen in 2006. He was selected for a long-term Japan Society for the Promotion of Science fellowship and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Tokyo Institute of Technology between 2006-2008.

E-mail: Guray.Erkol@ozyegin.edu.tr
Phone: +90.216.5592326

Rahmi Hezar

Assistant Professor

Dr. Rahmi Hezar has received his Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000 and has been working in the Wireless Analog Technology Center in Texas Instruments as a member of technical staff and section manager for Broadcast and Audio Systems. His initial thesis work is on low power digital filter architectures. He later has focused on development of continuous time sigma delta modulators for CMOS integrated wireless platforms that are now in many products. In the recent year he has been conducting research on advanced audio design and also on HD-radio/DAB anlog front end system. He holds 5 approved patents and 8 patents under review and several other publications on related mixed signal design subjects.

E-mail: Rahmi.Hezar@ozyegin.edu.tr