ECE Graduate Program. Koç University ECE Graduate Program

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Koç University – ECE Graduate Program

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Koç University – ECE Graduate Program

Faculty

• Engin Erzin Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering E-Mail: eerzin@ku.edu.tr

Home Page: http://home.ku.edu.tr/~eerzin

• Atilla Gürsoy Associate Professor of Computer Engineering E-Mail: agursoy@ku.edu.tr

Home Page: http://home.ku.edu.tr/~agursoy/

• Öznur Özkasap Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering E-Mail: oozkasap@ku.edu.tr

Home Page: http://home.ku.edu.tr/~oozkasap

• Tevfik Metin Sezgin

will start at Koç University in Jan. 2009

E-Mail: mtsezgin@ku.edu.tr

Home Page: http://home.ku.edu.tr/~mtsezgin

• Serdar Taşıran Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering E-Mail: stasiran@ku.edu.tr

Home Page: http://home.ku.edu.tr/~stasiran

• Yücel Yemez Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering E-Mail: yyemez@ku.edu.tr

Home Page: http://network.ku.edu.tr/~yyemez

• Deniz Yüret Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering E-Mail: dyuret@ku.edu.tr

Home Page: http://home.ku.edu.tr/~dyuret

• İrşadi Aksun Professor of Electrical & Electronics Engineering E-Mail: iaksun@ku.edu.tr

Home Page:http://home.ku.edu.tr/~iaksun

Alper Demir Associate Professor of Electrical & Electronics Engineering E-Mail: aldemir@ku.edu.tr

Home Page: http://home.ku.edu.tr/~aldemir

Alper Tunga Erdoğan Associate Professor of Electrical & Electronics Engineering E-Mail: alperdogan@ku.edu.tr

Home Page: http://home.ku.edu.tr/~alperdogan

Serdar Kozat Assistant Professor of Electrical & Electronics Engineering E-Mail: skozat@ku.edu.tr

Home Page:http://home.ku.edu.tr/~skozat

Oğuz Sunay Assistant Professor of Electrical & Electronics Engineering E-Mail: osunay@ku.edu.tr

Home Page: http://home.ku.edu.tr/~osunay

Murat Tekalp Professor of Electrical & Electronics Engineering E-Mail: mtekalp@ku.edu.tr

Home Page: http://home.ku.edu.tr/~mtekalp

Hakan Ürey Associate Professor of Electrical & Electronics Engineering E-Mail: hurey@ku.edu.tr

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Koç University – ECE Graduate Program

Degrees Offered

• M.S. in ECE

• Ph.D. in EE

• Ph.D. in CE

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MS Degree Requirements

• 21 credits (or 7 courses) beyond a Bachelor’s degree.

• Up to 2 courses from other science and engineering graduate

level courses with the consent of the student’s advisor.

• M.S students have to complete a thesis under the supervision

of his/her advisor, and must pass an oral thesis defence to

fulfil the M.S. Degree requirement.

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PhD Degree Requirements

• Students can apply to the Ph.D. programs with a B.S. or M.S. degree.

• 42 credits (or 14 courses) beyond the B.S. degree, or

• 21 credits (or 7 courses) beyond the M.S. degree.

• All students must pass the Ph.D. Qualifying Examination in their first year.

• Up to 2 courses from other science and engineering graduate level courses

with the consent of the student’s advisor.

• Students who have passed the Ph.D. qualifying examination are assisted in

matters pertaining to their thesis research by a faculty thesis advisory

committee. The research advisor serves as the chair of this committee. The

committee meets with the student at least once each semester. Ph.D.

students must submit a satisfactory written Ph.D. thesis proposal in their

second year of study. At the completion of the Ph.D. research, the students

must submit a written Thesis and pass an oral defense to complete the degree

requirements.

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Koç University – ECE Graduate Program

Research Areas

• Computational EM, Waves and Optics

–

Hakan Ürey

–

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ş

adi Aksun

–

Alper Demir

• Micro & Nano Systems (MEMS & NEMS)

–

Hakan Ürey

• Communications

–

O

ğ

uz Sunay

–

Alper Demir

–

Alper Erdo

ğ

an

• Digital Signal Processing

–

Murat Tekalp

–

Engin Erzin

–

Alper Erdo

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an

–

Serdar Kozat

• Design Technologies for Hardware, Software and

Biological Systems

–

Alper Demir

–

Serdar Ta

ş

ı

ran

• Integrated Circuits and Computer-Aided Design for

VLSI

–

Alper Demir

• Concurrent systems: Multi-threaded software,

multi-core systems

–

Serdar Ta

ş

ı

ran

–

Alper Demir

–

Attila Gürsoy

• Image Processing & Computer Vision

–

Yücel Yemez

–

Murat Tekalp

–

Tevfik Metin Sezgin

• Multimedia Signal Processing

–

Murat Tekalp

–

Engin Erzin

–

Yücel Yemez

–

Tevfik Metin Sezgin

• Multimedia & Networking

–

Öznur Özkasap

–

O

ğ

uz Sunay

• Distributed & Parallel Computing

–

Attila Gürsoy

–

Öznur Özkasap

• Computational Biology & Bioinformatics

–

Attila Gürsoy

–

Serdar Ta

ş

ı

ran

–

Deniz Yüret

• Intelligent Systems & Machine Learning

–

Tevfik Metin Sezgin

–

Deniz Yüret

–

Engin Erzin

• Natural Language Processing

–

Deniz Yüret

–

Engin Erzin

–

Serdar Kozat

–

Tevfik Metin Sezgin

• Software Engineering: Reliability, Analysis,

Verification

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Potential Courses - I

• ECOE501

Random Processes

• ECOE502

Convex Optimization and Its Applications

• ECOE504

Digital Speech and Audio Processing

• ECOE505

Linear Systems and Estimation Theory

• ECOE506

Digital Image Processing

• ECOE507

Digital Video Processing

• ECOE508

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

• ECOE509

Information Theory

• ECOE510

Computer Graphics

• ECOE511

Digital Communications

• ECOE512

Advanced Digital Signal Processing

• ECOE513

Multiuser Communications

• ECOE514

Wireless Communications

• ECOE515

Distributed Computing Systems

• ECOE516

Computer Networks

• ECOE517

VLSI and Digital Design

• ECOE518

Numerical Analysis of Circuits and Systems

• ECOE519

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

• ECOE520

Advanced Computer Architecture

• ECOE521

Photonics and Lasers

• ECOE522

Micro-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Systems

• ECOE523

Information Optics

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Potential Courses - II

• ECOE524

Near-Field Optics and Imaging

• ECOE525

Waves and Fields in Inhomogenous Media

• ECOE526

Antennas and Propagation

• ECOE527

Optical Fiber Communications

• ECOE529

Parallel Computing

• ECOE534

Computer and Network Security

• ECOE531

Modern Control Systems

• ECOE532

Internet Services

• ECOE535

Geometry Modeling

• ECOE540

Compiler Design

• ECOE542

Mechatronics

• ECOE545

Theory of Computation

• ECOE550

Natural Language Processing

• ECOE552

Introduction to Biomechanics

• ECOE555

Machine Learning

• ECOE556

Algorithms and Complexity Theory

• ECOE560

Design, Synthesis and Verification of Digital System

• ECOE561

Visualization

• ECOE562

Nanotechnology

• ECOE564

Biomimetics

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Koç University – ECE Graduate Program

Admissions

• Application Deadlines:

– Early Admissions:

April 25, 2008

– Late Admissions:

June 27, 2008

• Documents:

– Application Form (available from the web)

– Recommendation Letters

– TOEFL Score

• New Internet Based: Minimum Score 80

• Computer Based: Minimum Score 213

• Paper Based: Minimum Score 550

– ALES and/or GRE Scores

– Official Transcript(s)

• Applicants will be invited for interview based on their qualifications

• Apply early to maximize your chances of getting a scholarship

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Koç University – ECE Graduate Program

MS Scholarships

• TYPE I:

– Tuition waiver (25,000 YTL/year)

– 1,200 YTL monthly stipend

• TYPE II:

– Tuition waiver (25,000 YTL/year)

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PhD Scholarships

• TYPE I: Students with a BS/BA degree

–

Tuition waiver (25,000 YTL/year)

–

1,200 / 1,500 YTL monthly stipend before/after the PhD qualifier

• TYPE II: Students with a BS/BA degree

–

Tuition waiver (25,000 YTL/year)

–

800 /1,200 YTL monthly stipend before/after the PhD qualifier

and housing

• TYPE III: Students with a MS/MA degree

–

Tuition waiver (25,000 YTL/year)

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1,400 / 1,500 YTL monthly stipend before/after the PhD qualifier

• TYPE IV: Students with a MS/MA degree

–

Tuition waiver (25,000 YTL/year)

–

1,000 /1,200 YTL monthly stipend before/after the PhD qualifier

and housing

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Additional Benefits

• All students receive a laptop computer and private health insurance.

• Students with successful standing receive travel funds to attend

scientific conferences and meetings.

• PhD students may be offered monthly stipend up to 2,500 YTL

through externally funded research grants and projects.

• Students who receive their stipend from other sources (like TÜB

İ

TAK

scholarships or externally funded research grants and projects) are

eligible for the following benefits provided by the university:

–

Research Award

: 1,200 YTL

–

Free Housing:

This includes all costs except telephone expenses.

–

Housing Allowance:

400 YTL/month for students who do not use

the free housing benefit.

–

Research Award for PhD students:

2,000 YTL/year after they

pass the qualifier.

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Current Research Grants

(European)

• EC – FP7

–

Hakan Urey

• Helium 3D (High Efficiency Laser-Based Multi-User Multi-Modal 3D Display)

• MEMFIS-Ultrasmall MEMS Fourier Transform InfraRed Spectrometer

• EC - FP6

–

M. Tekalp, Y. Yemez & E. Erzin

• NoE - The European taskforce creating human-machine interfaces SIMILAR to human-human

communication

–

Hakan Urey, Alphan Sennaroglu, Ipek Basdogan, Ali Serpenguzel

• NoE – NEMO

–

Murat Tekalp, Yucel Yemez, Hakan Urey

• NoE - Integrated 3-D Television- Capture, Transmission and Display

• EC - COST

–

M. Tekalp, Y. Yemez & E. Erzin

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Current Research Grants

(International)

• MICROVISION INC., USA

–

H. Ürey

• MICROVISION3-Polymer Scanners and Microoptical System Development

• Fraunhofer IPMS, Germany

–

H. Ürey

• MEMS Fourier Transform Spectrometer Development

• NEDO

–

E. Erzin, Y. Yemez, A.M. Tekalp

• International Research Coordination of Driving Behavior Signal Processing based on Large Scale Real World Database

• Microsoft Research

–

S. Tasiran

• Concurrent Program Verification

• Deep Green

–

T. M. Sezgin

• Intelligent Multi-Modal Interfaces for Military Planning (Joint project with Cambridge Univ., Texas A&M Univ. and Harvey Mudd College)

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Current Research Grants

(National)

• TÜB

İ

TAK

–

Alper Demir

• Kariyer - Modeling and Analysis of Analog Phenomena in Electronic Circuit and System Design

–

Alper Erdogan

• Kariyer - Convex Optimization Based Fast and Low Complexity Blind Algorithm Development For Mimo Systems

–

Oguz Sunay

• Kariyer - Cross-Layer Optimized Design for Wireless Multimedia

–

Oznur Ozkasap

• Kariyer - Peer-to-Peer Algorithms and Applications for Distributed Computing Systems

–

Serdar Tasiran

• Formal Functional Validation of Hardware and Software Systems

–

Engin Erzin

• Joint Processing of Throat-, Bone- and Acoustic-Microphone Recordings

–

Yucel Yemez

• 3D reconstruction and Space-Time Surface Modeling of Time Varying Real Scenes from Multiple Video Streams

–

Hakan Urey, Irsadi Aksun

• Development of a Laser Scanning Based Microsystem for Endoscopic Imaging and DNA synthesis Applications

–

Atilla Gursoy, Ozlem Keskin

• DEVELOPMENT OF ALGORITHMS FOR PREDICTION AND ANALYSIS OF PROTEIN-PROTEIN

–

Irsadi Aksun

• Metamaterials and Photonic Crystals: Development of an efficient and accurate EM based simulation tool for characterization, analysis and design

• DPT

–

M. Tekalp, Y. Yemez & E. Erzin

• DRIVE-SAFE: Signal Processing and Advance Information Technologies for Improving Driver/Driving Prudence and Accident Reduction

• ASELSAN

–

Hakan Urey

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Selected Graduates

TANIR ÖZÇELEB

İ

(PhD)

Multiple Objective Optimization for Video Streaming, 2007, (Adv. M. Tekalp)

Post-Theses Position

: Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University, Netherlands

Selected Publications

:

T. Ozcelebi, A. M. Tekalp, and M. R. Civanlar, ``Delay-distortion optimization for

content-adaptive video streaming" IEEE Trans. Multimedia, vol. 9, no. 4, pp.

826-836, June 2007.

T. Ozcelebi, O. Sunay, A. M. Tekalp, and M. R. Civanlar, ``Cross-layer optimized

rate adaptation and scheduling for multiple-user wireless video streaming" IEEE

Jour. Select. Areas in Commun., vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 760-769, May 2007.

A. Aksay, S. Pehlivan, E. Kurutepe, C. Bilen, T. Ozcelebi, G. Bozdagi Akar, M. R.

Civanlar, and A. M. Tekalp, ``End-to-end stereoscopic video streaming system

with content-adaptive rate and format control," Signal Processing: Image

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Selected Graduates

SONER YALDIZ(MS), Stochastic Application Models For Energy Management In Multicore Systems, 2006, (Adv. A. Demir, S. Tasiran)

Post-Theses Position: PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Selected Publications:

S. Yaldiz, A. Demir, S. Tasiran, P. Ienne, Y. Leblebici, “Characterizing and Exploiting Task-Load Variability and Correlation for Energy

Management in Multi-Core Systems”, IEEE Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia, September 2005. S. Yaldiz, A. Demir and S. Tasiran, “Stochastic Modeling and Optimization

for Energy Management in Multi-Core Systems: A Video Decoding Case Study”. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, accepted for publication, 2008.

MEHMET EMRE SARGIN(MS), Audio-Visual Correlation Modeling for Speaker Identification and Synthesis, 2006, (Adv. M. Tekalp, E. Erzin, Y. Yemez)

Post-Theses Position: PhD student at University of California, Santa Barbara

Selected Publications:

M.E. Sargın, Y. Yemez, E. Erzin, and A.M. Tekalp, "Analysis of Head Gesture and Prosody Patterns for Prosody-Driven Head-Gesture Animation," to appear IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

M.E. Sargın, Y. Yemez, , and A.M. Tekalp, "Audio-Visual Synchronization and Fusion using Canonical Correlation Analysis," IEEE

Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 9, No. 7, pp. 1396-1403, November 2007.

M. E. Sargin, E. Erzin, Y. Yemez, A. M. Tekalp, A. T. Erdem, C. Erdem, M. Ozkan "Prosody-Driven Head-Gesture Animation," IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustic, Speech, Signal Proc. (ICASSP'07), 2007.

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Selected Graduates

TAYFUN ELMAS(MS), Runtime Checking of Refinement for Concurrent Software Components, 2005, (Adv. S. Tasiran)

Post-Thesis Position: PhD student at Koç University, İstanbul, Turkey Visiting Graduate Student, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

Summer intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, USA.

Selected Publications:

T. Elmas, S. Qadeer ve S. Taşıran, “Goldilocks: A Race- and Transaction-Aware Java Runtime,” Proc. ACM SIGPLAN 2007 Conf. on

Programming Language Design and Implementation, PLDI '07. 245-255, San Diego, CA, USA, June 10-13, ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, 2007.

Tayfun Elmas, Serdar Tasiran, Shaz Qadeer. VYRD: VerifYing Concurrent Programs by Runtime Refinement-Violation Detection. ACM

SIGPLAN 2005 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). ACM SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 40 No. 6. pp 27-37. June 2005.

Tayfun Elmas, Serdar Tasiran. VyrdMC: Driving Runtime Refinement Checking with Model Checkers. Fifth Workshop on Runtime Verification (RV'05). Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 144, Number 1, pp. 41-56. January 2006.

• Goldilocks: A Java runtime that detects concurrency errors

• Race detection algorithm and tool

– Developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research

• Theoretical contribution:

– First completely precise race-detection algorithm

• Practical contribution:

– Competitive with all existing Java race checkers

• Recognition:

– Included in course curricula at four US universities

– Independently re-implemented in industry, academia

• Microsoft Research, Microsoft Product Groups

• Williams College

– Patented

• FATES/RV ‘06, PLDI ‘07

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Post-Thesis Positions

Our graduates admitted with full scholarship to the

following selected list of universities:

Carnegie Mellon University, USA

University of California, Berkeley, USA

University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Ohio State University, USA

University of Toronto, Canada

Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada

University of Nottingham, UK

Bilkent, Turkey

University of Florida, USA

EPFL, Switzerland

EURECOM Institute, France

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Patents and Technology Licensing

Microvision Inc.

(USA) licensed and patented the

Polymer/MEMS scanner

technology

developed at the Optical Microsystems Laboratory by

Prof. Hakan Urey

, post-doc

Dr.

Arda Yalcinkaya

, and graduate students

Olgac Ergeneman

and

Serhan Isikman

.

http://mems.ku.edu.tr

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ASELSAN

, Turkey licensed and patented the

Uncooled Thermal Imaging Camera

technology

developed at the Optical Microsystems Laboratory by

Prof. Hakan Urey

and graduate

students

Hamdi Torun

,

Onur Ferhanoglu

, and

Fatih Toy

.

http://mems.ku.edu.tr

Infrared Camera Pixels

50um

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Fraunhofer Institute

for Photonic Microsystems, Germany licensed and patented the MEMS Fourier

Transform Spectrometer technology developed at the Optical Microsystems Laboratory by

Prof.

Hakan Urey

and graduate students

Caglar Ataman

.

http://mems.ku.edu.tr

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Recent Graduates

EMRE ATSAN(MS), A Scalable and Reactive Replication Framework For Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, 2007, (Adv. Ö. Özkasap)

Post-Theses Position: PhD student at Bilkent University

E. Atsan, Ö. Özkasap, “SCALAR: Scalable Data Lookup and Replication Framework For Mobile Ad-hoc Networks”, accepted to Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks WWASN’08, in

conjunction with International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), China, June 2008.

E. Atsan, Ö. Özkasap, Applicability of Eigenvector Centrality Principle to Data Replication in MANETs, ISCIS’07, International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Ankara, Nov 2007.

E. Atsan, Ö. Özkasap, Seed-based Distributed Group Key Selection Algorithm for Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication, Dubai, Nov 2007.

E. Atsan, Ö. Özkasap, “A Classification and Performance Comparison of Mobility Models for Ad Hoc Networks”, 5th International Conference on AD-HOC Networks & Wireless (AdHocNOW’06), LNCS 4104, Ottawa, Aug 2006.

AYTUNÇİŞSEVEN(MS), Dual Mode Quadruple Precision Floating-Point Division and Square-Roots Units, 2007, (Adv. A. Akkas)

ERHAN BAŞ(MS), Road and Traffic Analysis from Video, 2007, (Adv. M. Tekalp)

Post-Theses Position: PhD student at Oregon Health and Sciences University

E. Bas, A. M. Tekalp, and S. Salman, ``Automatic vehicle counting from video for traffic flow analysis," Proc. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symp., Istanbul, Turkey, June 2007.

İSTEMİEKİN AKKUŞ(MS), Peer To Peer Multipoint Video Conferencing Using Layered Video, 2007, (Adv. M.R. Civanlar, Ö. Özkasap)

Post-Theses Position: PhD student at University of Toronto

İ.E. Akkuş, Ö. Özkasap, M.R. Civanlar, “Multi-objective Optimization For Peer-to-Peer Multipoint Video Conferencing Using Layered Video”, PV 2007 (16th International Packet Video Workshop), Lausanne, Nov 2007.

İ.E. Akkuş, M.R. Civanlar, Ö. Özkasap, “Peer-To-Peer Multipoint Video Conferencing Using Layered Video”, IEEE (International Conference on Image Processing) ICIP 2006, Atlanta.

İ.E. Akkuş, Ö. Özkasap, M.R. Civanlar, “Secure Transmission of Video on an End System Multicast Using Public Key Cryptography”,

MRCS’06, Multimedia Content Representation, Classification and Security, LNCS, 4105, p.603-610, İstanbul, 2006.

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Recent Graduates

MEHMET ALİYATBAZ(MS), The Stretch method: A Linear

Transformation of Training Data Matrix, 2007, (Adv. D. Yuret) Post-thesis position: PhD student at Koc University

MEHMET ERKAN KEREMOĞLU(MS), “The LP Coverage Metric for

Testing of Concurrent Programs, 2007, (Adv. S. Tasiran)

Post-Thesis Position: PhD student at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Selected Publications:

S. Tasiran, T. Elmas, G. Bolukbasi, M. E. Keremoglu, “A Novel Test Coverage Metric for Concurrently-Accessed Software Components” Proc. 5th International Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software (FATES 2005). University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 11, 2005.

M. E. Keremoglu, S. Taşıran ve T. Elmas, “A Classification of

Concurrency Bugs in Java Benchmarks by Developer Intent,” Proc. Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Systems: Testing and Debugging (PADTAD'06), International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA ’06) Portland, Maine, USA. July 17, 2006. 23-26. ACM Press, New York. NY, USA. (2006).

EMRE GÜNEY(MS), 2007, (Adv. A. Gursoy)

Post-Theses Position: PhD student at Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

E. Guney E, N. Tuncbag, O. Keskin, A. Gursoy, “HotSprint: database of computational hot spots in protein interfaces”, Nucleic Acids Res. Vol. 36 D662-6 (2008)

ZÜLKÜF GENÇ(MS), Epidemic -based Reliable and Adaptive Multicast for Mobile Ad hoc Networks, 2006, (Adv. Ö. Özkasap)

Post-Theses Position: PhD student at Delft University of Technology

Z. Genç, Ö. Özkasap, “EraMobile: Epidemic-based Reliable and Adaptive Multicast for MANETs”, IEEE WCNC (Wireless Communications and Networking Conference), Hong Kong, March 2007.

Ö. Özkasap, Z. Genç, E. Atsan, “Epidemic-based Approaches for Reliable Multicast in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, (invited article), ACM

Operating Systems Review, Special Issue on Self-Organizing Systems, vol.40, no.3, 73-79, July 2006.

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Recent Graduates

UTKAN ÖĞMEN(MS), Prism: A System for the Query,Visualization and Analysis of Protein Interfaces and Their Networks, 2006, (Adv. A. Gursoy)

U. Ogmen, O. Keskin, S. Aytuna, R.Nussinoiv, A.Gursoy, "PRISM: Protein interactions by Structural Matching", Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 33, Web server issue, pp.W331-W336, (2005).

SELEN PEHLİVAN(MS), End To End Stereoscopic Video Streaming System, 2006, (Adv. R. Civanlar)

Post Thesis Position: PhD. Student at Bilkent Selected Publications:

Aksay, S. Pehlivan, E. Kurutepe, C. Bilen, T. Ozcelebi, G. Bozdagi Akar, M. R. Civanlar, and A. M. Tekalp, ``End-to-end stereoscopic video streaming system with content-adaptive rate and format control," Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 157-168, Feb 2007.

BENGİMİZRAHİ(MS), Paraphrase Extraction From Parallel News Corpora, 2006, (Adv. D. Yuret)

Post-Thesis Position: ARGELA Technologies, Istanbul

TURGUT MUSTAFA ÖKTEM(MS), A Low Complexity Adaptive

Framework for the Rate and Performance Enhancement of PMD limited Fiber Optic Communication Systems, 2006, (Adv. A. Erdogan)

Post Thesis Position: PhD. Student at EURECOM Institute, France. Selected Publications:

Alper T. Erdogan, Alper Demir, Turgut M. Oktem, “Automatic PMD Compensation by Unsupervised Polarization Diversity Combining Coherent Receivers”, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, to appear.

Turgut Oktem and Alper T. Erdogan, "Adaptive Paraunitary Filter Methods for The Blind Equalization of Frequency Selective Multiple-Input-Multple-Output Channels'', to appear in Proceedings of IEEE SIU, April 2006.

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Recent Graduates

EMİNE PINAR KARABULUT(MS), Study of Planar Stratified Structures And Their Novel Applications: Chirped Mirrors and Photonic Crystals, 2006, (Adv. I. Aksun)

Post-Theses Position: PhD student at Koc University

M. I. Aksun, A. Alparslan, E. P. Karabulut, Erdinç Ircı, and Vakur Ertürk, “Determining the effective constitutive parameters of finite periodic structures: Photonic Crystals and Metamaterials,” To appear in IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech.

ERHAN YILMAZ(MS), An Information Theoretic Study Of Spatial

Diversity Techniques For Wireless Relay Networks, 2006, (Adv. O. Sunay)

Post-Thesis Position: PhD student at Eurecom Institute, Sophia Antipolis, France

Erhan Yilmaz, M. Oguz Sunay, “Impact of Channel Side Information Availability at the Source Node on the Capacity of Multi-Hop MIMO Relay Networks,” Proceedings of the IEEE ISWPC 2008, Santorini, Greece, May 7-9, 2008.

Erhan Yilmaz, M. Oguz Sunay, “Amplify-and-Forward Capacity with Transmit Beamforming for MIMO Multiple-Relay Networks,”

Proceedings of the IEEE GLOBECOM'07 Conference, Washington D.C., USA, November 26-30, 2007.

Erhan Yilmaz, M. Oguz Sunay, “Effects of Transmit Beamforming on the Capacity of Multi-Hop MIMO Relay Channels," Proceedings of the IEEE PIMRC'07 Conference, Athens, Greece, September 3-6, 2007.

AHMET ATA AKATAY(MS), Beam Steering Using Microlens Arrays,

2006, (Adv. H. Urey)

Post-Theses Position: PhD student at EPFL, Switzerland

Ata Akatay, Hakan Urey, “Design and Optimization of Microlens Array Based High Resolution Beam Steering System,” Optics Express, Vol. 15, No. 8, p. 4523-4529, 2007

Ata Akatay, Caglar Ataman, Hakan Urey, “High-resolution beam steering using microlens arrays,” Optics Letters, Vol. 31(19), p. 2861-2863, Oct 2006

Akatay, H. Suyal, A. J. Waddie, M. R. Taghizadeh, H. Urey, “Comparative performance analysis of 100% fill-factor microlens arrays: fabricated by various methods,” in Micro-Optics, VCSELs, and Photonic Interconnects: Fabrication, Packaging, and Integration, Proc. SPIE Vol. 6185, Strasbourg, France, April 2006

Ata Akatay, Çaglar Ataman, Hakan Ürey, “Mikromercek Dizinleri ile Yüksek Çözünürlüklü Lazer Tarayıcı” 7. Ulusal Elektro-Optik ve Fotonik Calisma Toplantisi, Bilkent Univ, Istanbul, Dec 2005

YUSUF SAHİLLİOĞLU(MS), A Surface Deformation Framework For 3D Shape Recovery, 2006, (Adv. Y. Yemez)

Post-Theses Position: PhD student, University of Florida, USA.

Y. Sahillioğlu and Y. Yemez, “A Surface Deformation Framework for 3D Shape Recovery,”Lecture Notes in Computer Science (MCRS’06), Vol. 4105, pp. 570-577, 2006.

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Recent Graduates

ENGİN KURUTEPE(MS), Client-Driven Streaming of Multi-View Videos For Interactive 3DTV, 2006, (Adv. M. Tekalp)

Post-Theses Position: PhD student at Technical University of Berlin Selected Publications:

E. Kurutepe, R. Civanlar, and A. M. Tekalp, ``Client-driven selective streaming of multi-view video for interactive 3DTV" to appear in the special issue of IEEE Trans. on Circ. and Syst. for Video

Technology, Nov. 2007.

A. M. Tekalp, E. Kurutepe, and M. R. Civanlar, ``3DTV over IP: End-to-end streaming of multi-view video" to appear in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Nov. 2007.

A. Aksay, S. Pehlivan, E. Kurutepe, C. Bilen, T. Ozcelebi, G. Bozdagi Akar, M. R. Civanlar, and A. M. Tekalp, ``End-to-end stereoscopic video streaming system with content-adaptive rate and format control," Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 157-168, Feb 2007.

ALPER TOLGA KOCATAŞ(MS), Integrating Gene Expression, Protein Interaction and protein Domain Data to Improve Gene Expression Clustering, 2005, (Adv. A. Gursoy)

A. Kocatas, A. Gursoy, R. Cetin-Atalay, "Application of Data Mining Techniques to Protein-Protein Interactions", LNCS Vol 2869 pp. 316-323, 2003 (ISCIS 2003)

UMUT KÜÇÜKKABAK(MS), Design and Implementation of Reciprocal Unit for Interval and Floating Point Arithmetic, 2005, (Adv. A. Akkas)

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Recent Graduates

TAYYAR ÖNAL(MS), Development of a Rigorous and Efficient

Electromagnetic Simulation Algorithm for 3-D Printed Structures in Multilayer Environment, 2005, (Adv. I. Aksun)

Post-Theses Position: Working in Industry

T. Onal, M. I. Aksun and N. Kinayman, “An efficient full-wave simulation algorithm of multiple vertical conductors in printed circuits,” IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech, vol. 54, pp. 3739 – 3745, Oct. 2006. T. Onal, M. I. Aksun and N. Kinayman, “A rigorous and efficient analysis of

3D printed circuits: vertical conductors arbitrarily distributed in multilayer environment,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagation, vol. AP-55, no. 12, pp. 3726-3729, Dec. 2007.

T. Onal, M. I. Aksun and N. Kinayman, “Analysis of Multiple Vertical Strips in Planar Geometries via DCIM-MoM,” Complex Computing

Networks, Springer in Physics Series, vol. 104, pp. 133-140, Jan. 2006.

M. I. Aksun, T. Onal, “Critical Study of DCIM, and Development of Efficient Simulation Tool for 3D Printed Structures in Multilayer Media,” PIERS 2006 in Cambridge, 26-29 March 2006.

CAN JAMES WETHERILT(MS), A Volumetric Fusion Technique for Surface Reconstruction from Silhouettes and Optical Triangulation, 2005, (Adv. Y. Yemez)

Post-Theses Position: Graphics & Animation, Yogurt Tech., Istanbul.

Y. Yemez and C.J. Wetherilt, “A volumetric fusion technique for surface reconstruction from silhouettes and range data,”Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 105, No. 1, pp. 30–41, 2007.

MUSTAFA CAN FİLİBELİ(MS), Embedded Web Server Based Home Appliance Networks, 2005, (Adv. R. Civanlar, Ö. Özkasap)

Post-Theses Position: Kreatif Bilişim Teknolojileri

Filibeli, M.C., Özkasap, Ö. and Civanlar, M.R., “Embedded Web Server Based Home Appliance Networks”, Journal of Network and

Computer Applications, Elsevier Science, 30/2, 499-514, April 2007. Filibeli, M.C., Özkasap, Ö. and Civanlar, M.R., “Embedded Web Server

based Home Appliance Networks”, IASTED PDCN 2005,

International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2005.

Filibeli, M.C, Özkasap, Ö., Civanlar, M.R., Internet Erişimli Ev Cihaz Ağları, ASYU-INISTA 2004, Akıllı Sistemlerde Yenilikler ve Uygulamaları Sempozyumu, Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, 23-25 Haziran 2004.

ALİSELİM AYTUNA(MS), A High Performance Algorithm for Automated Prediction of Post-Theses Position: Protein-Protein Interactions, 2005, (Adv. A. Gursoy)

Application Architect, Software Developer - Kreatif BT, Istanbul

A.S. Aytuna, A.Gursoy, O.Keskin, "Predictions of protein-protein interactions by combining structure and sequence conservation in protein interfaces", Bioinformatics, Vol. 21. No. 12, pp. 2850-2855, 2005.

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Recent Graduates

HASAN ERTAN ÇETİNGÜL(MS), Discrimination Analysis of Lip Motion

Features for Multimodal Speaker Identification and Speech-Reading, 2005, (Adv. M. Tekalp, E. Erzin, Y. Yemez)

Post-Theses Position: PhD student at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Selected Publications:

H.E. Cetingul, E. Erzin, Y. Yemez, A.M. Tekalp, ``Multimodal

Speaker/Speech Recognition using Lip Motion, Lip Texture and Audio,'' Signal Processing, Special Section: Multimodal Human-Computer Interfaces, Vol 86, Issue 12, pp. 3549-3558, Dec 2006. H.E. Cetingul, Y. Yemez, E. Erzin, A.M. Tekalp, ``Discriminative Analysis

of Lip Motion Features for Speaker Identification and Speech-Reading,'' IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol: 15 , Issue: 10, pp: 2879 - 2891, Oct. 2006.

H.E. Cetingul, Y. Yemez, E. Erzin, A. M. Tekalp "Robust Lip-Motion Features For Speaker Identification," IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, March 2005.

OLGAÇ ERGENEMAN(MS), Design and Fabrication of Polymer Magnetic Actuators for Scanning, 2005, (Adv. H. Urey) Post-Theses Position: PhD student at ETH-Zurich

Serhan O. Isikman, Olgac Ergeneman, Arda D. Yalcinkaya, Hakan Urey, “Modeling and Characterization of Soft Magnetic Film Actuated 2D Scanners,” J. Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 12, pp.283-289, Mar/Apr. 2007

Arda D. Yalcinkaya, Olgac Ergeneman, Hakan Urey, “Polymer Magnetic Scanners for Bar Code Applications,” Sensors and Actuators A, Vol. 135, pp.236-243, 2007

Olgaç Ergeneman, Arda D. Yalçinkaya, Melih Altun, Rifat Türsen, Hakan Urey, “Polymer Magnetic Scanner,” MME Conference, Sep, 2005, Goteborg, Sweden

Arda D. Yalçınkaya, Olgaç Ergeneman, Hakan Ürey, “Elektro-manyetik Tahrikli Polimer Bazlı Optik Tarayıcı,” 6. Ulusal Elektro-Optik ve Fotonik Calisma Toplantisi, Sabanci Univ, Istanbul, Dec 2004

ULAŞBAĞCI(MS), Boosting Classifiers For Automatic Music Genre Classification, 2005, (Adv. E. Erzin)

Post-Theses Position: PhD student at University of Nottingham, UK Selected Publications:

U. Bagci, E. Erzin "Automatic Classification of Musical Genres Using Inter-Genre Similarity," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 14, No. 8, pp. 521-524, August 2007.

U. Bagci, E. Erzin "Boosting Classifiers for Music Genre

Classification," 20th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 3733, pp. 575-584, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.

U. Bagcı, E. Erzin "Müzik Türlerinin Sınıflanmasında Benzer Kesişim Bilgileri Uygulamaları," SIU 2006, Antalya

HAMDİTORUN(MS), Design and Fabrication of Thermo-Mechanical Thermal Detector Arrays with Optical Readout, 2005, (Adv. H. Urey) Post-Theses Position: PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology Selected Publications:

H. Urey, H. Torun, US Patent Pending, European Patent EP1757914, Issued 2007-02-28

Hamdi Torun, Hakan Urey, “Thermal Deflections in Multilayer MEMS Structures and Athermalization,” J. Applied Physics 100 (2): Art. No. 023527, p. 1-6, July 2006

Hamdi Torun, Hakan Urey, “Uncooled Thermo-mechanical Detector Array with Optical Readout,” Opto-Electronics Review, Vol. 14 (1), p. 55– 60, 2006

H. Torun, O. Ferhanoglu, H. Urey, “Thermo-Mechanical Detector Array with Optical Readout,” P18, IEEE-LEOS Optical MEMS Conference, Big Sky, Montana, USA, August 2006

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Recent Graduates

ÖMER OZAN SÖNMEZ(MS), A novel Scheduling Model for

Computational Grid Economy Systems, 2005, (Adv. A. Gursoy)

Post-Thesis Position: PhD student at Parallel and Distributed Systems Group, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

O. Sonmez and A. Gursoy,''A Novel Economic-based Scheduling Heuristic for Computational Grids", International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 21(1), 21-29, 2007.

O. Sonmez and A. Gursoy, "Comparison of Pricing Policies for a Computational Grid Market", LNCS Vol. 3911 pp. 766-773, 2006 (PPAM 2005)

ÇAĞLAR ATAMAN(MS), Design Modeling and Characterization of

Electrostatically Actuated Microscanners, 2004, (Adv. H. Urey) Post-Theses Position: PhD student at Koç University

H. Urey, C. Ataman, European Patent 1677086, Issued: 2006-07-05 Caglar Ataman, Hakan Urey, “Modeling and characterization of comb

actuated resonant microscanners,” J. Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 16, p. 9-16, 2006

Caglar Ataman, Hakan Urey, Alexander Wolter, “MEMS-based Fourier Transform Spectrometer,” J. Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol.: 16, Pages: 2516-2523, 2006

Hakan Urey, Cihan Kan, Caglar Ataman, “Dynamic Modeling of Comb-Driven Microscanners,” Optical MEMS 2004, Transactions of IEEE-LEOS, Paper I4, Takamatsu, Japan, August 2004

TAHİR ÇELEBİ(MS), Design and Implementation of a Novel Peer to Peer

Approach to Multipoint Videoconferencing, 2005, (Adv. M.R. Civanlar, Ö. Özkasap)

Post-Theses Position: Atos Origin Selected Publications:

Civanlar, M.R., Özkasap, Ö., and Çelebi, T., "Peer-to-Peer Multipoint Videoconferencing on the Internet", Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal, Elsevier Science, 20/8, 743-754, (2005). Çelebi, T., Civanlar, M.R. and Özkasap, Ö., “P2P Multi-Point

Videoconferencing on the Internet”, IASTED PDCN 2005,

International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2005.

Civanlar, M.R., Özkasap, Ö., Çelebi, T., Peer-to-Peer Multipoint Videoconferencing, ICIP04, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Singapore, October 2004.

EMRAH AKYOL(MS), Adaptive Scalable Video Coding, 2005, (Adv. M.

Tekalp)

Post Thesis Position: PhD Student at University of California, Santa Barbara

E. Akyol, A. M. Tekalp, and R. Civanlar, ``A flexible multiple description coding framework for adaptive peer-to-peer video streaming" IEEE Jour. Selected Topics in Signal Proc, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 231-245, August 2007.

E. Akyol, A. M. Tekalp, and M. R. Civanlar, ``Content-aware scalability type selection for rate adaptation of scalable video," EURASIP Jour. on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2007, Article ID 10236, 11 pages, April 2007.

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Recent Graduates

CAN KIZILKALE(MS), Fast Blind Equalization Using Subgradient-Based

Algorithms, 2004, (Adv. A. Erdogan)

Post Thesis Position: PhD. Student at Bilkent University, Ankara. Selected Publications:

Alper T. Erdogan and Can Kizilkale, "Fast and Low Complexity Blind Equalization via Subgradient Projections'', IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol:53, p: 2513-2524, July 2005.

Can Kizilkale and Alper T. Erdogan, "A Fast Blind Equalization Method Based On Subgradient Projections'', Proceedings of IEEE ICASSP, Vol: 4, pp:873-876, May 2004.

Can Kizilkale and Alper T. Erdogan, "A Moving Window Approach for Blind Equalization Using Subgradient Projections'', Proceedings of IEEE SIU, April 2004.

BAŞAK MUTLUM(MS), Word Sense Disambiguation Based on Sense

Similarity and Syntactic Context, 2005, (Adv. D. Yuret) Post-Thesis Position: Microsoft, Redmond

ALPER KANAK(MS), Multimodal Speaker Identification with Audio-Video

Processing, 2004, (Adv. M. Tekalp, E. Erzin, Y. Yemez) Post Thesis Position: TUBITAK-UEKAE

Kanak, E. Erzin, Y. Yemez and A. M. Tekalp, "Speaker Identification Using Multimodal Audio-Video Processing,'' IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Barcelona, Spain, September 2003.

A. Kanak, E. Erzin, Y. Yemez and A. M. Tekalp, "Joint Audio-Video Processing for Biometric Speaker Identification," IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing, Hong Kong, China, April 2003.

MEHMET EMRE YAVUZ(MS), Development of an Efficient

Electromagnetic Simulation Algorithm for Planar Geometries with Multiple Vertical Conductors, 2003, (Adv. I. Aksun)

Post-Theses Position: PhD student at Ohio State University Selected Publications:

M. E. Yavuz, M. I. Aksun, N. Kinayman,” An Efficient Approach for the Analysis of Printed Geometries with Multiple Vertical Metallizations and Their Optimization,” IEEE AP-S International Symposium, Colombus, Ohio, June 22-27, 2003.

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Recent Graduates

FERİT OZAN AKGÜL(MS), Statistical QoS Assurances for Wireless

Packet Data and Integration Methodologies for 3G/WLAN, 2004, (Adv. O. Sunay)

Post-Thesis Position: PhD Student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute Selected Publications:

Ferit O. Akgul and M. Oguz Sunay, “Enhancing 3G High Speed Wireless Data Performance Through Utilization of 3G-WLAN System Integration: A Cross-Network, Cross-Layer Approach,” Personal Wireless Communications Journal, Springer, vol. 43, pp. 89-106, October 2007.

Ferit O. Akgul and M. Oguz Sunay, “QoS-Aware Scheduling for 3G Wireless Packet Data Systems,” Journal of Internet Engineering, Klidarithmos, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 24-30, January 2007.

Ferit O. Akgul and M. Oguz Sunay, “Energy Efficient Utilization of IEEE 802.11 Hot Spots in 3G Wireless Packet Data Networks,” Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, LNCS 4217, pp. 518-529, 2006.

Ferit O. Akgul and M. Oguz Sunay, “Statistical QoS Assurances for High Speed Wireless Communication Systems,” Lecture Notes in Computer Science,} Springer, LNCS 3970, pp. 287-298, 2006.

ALİEKŞİM(MS), Spectrally Efficient Wireless Packet Data Transmission for Multimedia Services Provisioning, 2004, (Adv. O. Sunay) Post-Thesis Position: TUBITAK-UEKAE

Ali Eksim and M. Oguz Sunay, “Fair Scheduling for Spectrally Efficient Multi-Service Data Provisioning,” International Journal on

Communication Systems, Wiley, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 615-642, August 2004.

M. Oguz Sunay and Ali Eksim, “Wireless Multicast with Multi-User Diversity,” Proceedings of the IEEE VTC-Spring 2004 Conference, Milan, Italy, May 11-14, 2004.

M. Oguz Sunay and Ali Eksim, “Wireless Multicast Packet Data

Provisioning using Opportunistic Multiple Access,” Proceedings of the 10'th IEEE Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands, November 13, 2003.

Ali Eksim and M. Oguz Sunay, “On Scheduling for Delay Tolerant Data in HDR,'” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advances in Wireless Communications, Victoria, Canada, September 23, 2002.