Kayhan Eritmen  Kayhan Eritmen has received his B.S. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2006. He then obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Electronics Engineering Program, Sabanci University Istanbul, Turkey in 2008 and 2014, respectively. During his graduate study, he has been affiliated with Communication Theories and Technologies (CTT) Group and supervised by Dr. Mehmet Keskinoz. His research interests are in the areas of distributed detection, data fusion, MIMO communication , network coding and  cross layer design  in wireless networks.                       CTT Related Publications : Journal Papers: K. Eritmen, M. Keskinoz, “Symbol-Error Rate Optimized Complex Field Network Coding for  Wireless Communications,” Wireless Networks, pp.1-17, Mar. 2015[published online 2015 DOI: 10.1007/s11276-015-0924-1] K. Eritmen, M. Keskinoz, “ Rate-Optimal Fair Power Allocation for Complex Field Network Coded Relay Communications,” Wireless Networks, pp.1-15, Aug. 2015[published online 2015 DOI: 10.1007/s11276-015-1031-z] K. Eritmen, M. Keskinoz, “Improving The Performance of Wireless Sensor Networks Through Optimized Complex Field Network Coding,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 15, no.5, pp. 2934-2946, May 2015.  K. Eritmen, M. Keskinoz, “Distributed Decision Fusion for Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks,” Wireless Networks, volume: 20, no: 5, pp. 987-1002 , 2014 Conference Proceedings: K. Eritmen, M. Keskinoz, “Distributed Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Complex Field Network Coding”, International Conference on Information Fusion, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2013. K. Eritmen, M. Keskinoz, “Distributed detection using superposition signaling with fusion center diversity”, IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, 2011. K. Eritmen, E. Masazade, M. Keskinoz, “A Simplified Parallel Distributed Detection Method for Wireless Sensor Networks under Fading Channels”, IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, 2007.     Engin Maşazade Engin Masazade received the B.S. degree from the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering , Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, in 2003. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 2006 and 2010, respectively from Electronics Engineering Program of Sabanci Universityas a CTT member under the supervision of Dr. Mehmet Keskinoz. Between, 2008 and 2012, he worked as a Pre-doctoral and Post-doctoral Research Associate with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor working with Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey. His research interests include distributed detection, localization, and tracking for wireless sensor networks, dynamic resource management in sensor/communication networks. In July 2013, he has been awarded the Career Award on ``Adaptive resource management for wireless sensor networks'' by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). E-mail: engin.masazade AT yeditepe DOT edu DOT tr URL: http://ee.yeditepe.edu.tr/tr/staff/e_masazade/ CTT Related Publications : Journal Papers: E. Masazade, R. Niu, P. K. Varshney, M. Keskinoz, “Energy Aware Iterative Source Localization Schemes for Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol.58, no.9, pp.4824-4835, Sept. 2010. E. Masazade, R. Rajagopalan, P. K. Varshney, C. K. Mohan, G. K. Sendur, M. Keskinoz, “A Multiobjective Optimization Approach to Obtain Decision Thresholds for Distributed Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics–Part B, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 444 -457, 2010. M. Keskinoz, O. Gurbuz, E. Masazade, “Cross-Layer Enhanced Time Scheduling for Multi-Band OFDM UWB Networks”, Wireless Networks, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 863 - 873 , 2010. E. Masazade, M. Keskinoz, “An Efficient Realization Bit Error Rate Estimation Method for Multiband OFDM based UWB Systems”, European Transactions on Telecommunications, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 617 - 624, 2009. Conference Proceedings: E. Masazade, R. Niu, P. K. Varshney, M. Keskinoz, “Channel aware iterative source localization for wireless sensor networks” In Proc. International Conference on Information Fusion, Edinburgh, UK, July, 2010. E. Masazade, R. Niu, P. K. Varshney, M. Keskinoz, “A Probabilistic Transmission Scheme for Distributed Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks” In Proc. IEEE 44rd Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS’10), Princeton, NJ, March 2010. E. Masazade, R. Niu, P. K. Varshney, M. Keskinoz, “A Monte Carlo Based Energy Efficient Source Localization Method for Wireless Sensor Networks”, In Proc. IEEE 3rd International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, CAMSAP’09, Aruba, Dutch Antilles, December 13-16 2009. E. Masazade, R. Niu, P. K. Varshney, M. Keskinoz, “An Energy Efficient Iterative Method for Source Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks”, In Proc. IEEE 43rd Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS’09), Baltimore, MD, March 2009. E. Masazade, R. Rajagopalan, P. K. Varshney, G. K. Sendur, and M. Keskinoz, “Evaluation of local decision thresholds for distributed detection in wireless sensor networks using multi-objective optimization”, In Proc. IEEE. 42nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, October 2008. K. Eritmen, E. Masazade, M. Keskinoz,“A Simplified Parallel Distributed Detection Method for Wireless Sensor Networks under Fading Channels” In Proc. IEEE 15th Signal Processing and Communications Applications, SIU, 11-13 June 2007 Page(s):1 - 4, Eskisehir, Turkey (in Turkish). E. Masazade, M. Keskinoz, O. Gurbuz, “Proportional Time Sharing with Frame Size Adaptation for MB-OFDM based UWB WPANs”, In Proc. IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications and Technology Conference, 2006 (LISAT), 5 May 2006 Page(s):1 - 7. E. Masazade, M. Keskinoz, O. Gurbuz; “A Proportional Time Scheduling Scheme with Frame Size Adaptation for MB-OFDM UWB WPANs”, In Proc. IEEE 14th Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU), 17-19 April 2006 Page(s):1 - 4, Antalya, Turkey (in Turkish).   Ali Çağatay Cırık Ali received the B.S and M.S. degrees in telecommunications and electronics engineering from Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2007 and 2009, respectively. While he is a member of CTT Group at Sabanci University, we completed his M.S. thesis entitled “Iterative Low-Complexity Detection for LDPC Coded Multi-Relay Channels” under the supervision of Dr. Mehmet Keskinoz. As a successful CTT member, we has got scholarship from the Department of Electrical engineering at University of California, Riverside(http://www.ee.ucr.edu/) to pursue his Ph.D study. He is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree on “Transceiver Designs for Full-Duplex MIMO Radios with Self-Interference”, where he has developed efficient algorithms for the optimization problems related to full-duplex MIMO systems for such a promising technology of future mobile networks. His industry experience includes internships at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (http://www.merl.com), Cambridge, MA, in 2012 and at Broadcom Corporation (http://www.broadcom.com/), Irvine, CA, in 2013.   Mümin İmamoğlu Mümin İmamoğlu was a member of CTT group durin 2006-2008 for his M.S. thesis entitled “Distributed Detection Strategies for Wireless Serial Sensor Networks”. In his thesis, suboptimal fusion rules to the optimal fusion rule for serial distributed detection were proposed . In particular, the low and high SNR approximations of the optimal rule have been derived. Then, the effects of node failure on the serial distributed detection performance were investigated and robust decision fusion rules under node failure have been devised. Lastly, feedback strategies have been proposed and appropriate decision fusion rules for the suggested strategies have been derived. From 2009-2011, he worked in Nortel Netaş, Istanbul/Turkey as a Design & Software Engineer. Now, Mumin Imamoglu works as a researcher at the Informatics and Information Security Center of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), Kocaeli, Turkey.                             CTT Related Publications : Mumin Imamoglu, Mehmet Keskinoz, “Node Failure Handling for Serial Distributed Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks,” in The 21st Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2010), September 26 – 29, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey.   Merve Peyic         Merve Peyic was a member of CTT group during 2006-2008 for her M.S. thesis entitled “Low Power IEEE 802.11n LDPC Decoder Hardware Design” (jointly supervised with Ilker Hamzaoğlu). In this thesis, a low power multi-rate hybrid LDPC decoder hardware implementing layered min-sum decoding algorithm for IEEE 802.11n Wireless LAN Standard has been developed. She worked as a Digital Design Engineer at ST-Ericsson, Istanbul, Turkey during 2010-2011 and now are working at Cateno Radio Design. CTT Related Publications : M. Peyic, H. Baba, E. Guleyuboglu, I. Hamzaoglu, M. Keskinoz, “A Low Power Multi-Rate Decoder Hardware for IEEE 802.11n LDPC Codes,” Microprocessors and Microsystems ,Elsevier, vol.26, issue.3, pp.159-166, May 2012 [published online 2011 DOI:10.1016/j.micpro.2011.12.006] M. Peyic, H. A. Baba, I. Hamzaoglu, M. Keskinoz, “Low-Power IEEE 802.11n LDPC Decoder Hardware,” The 16th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration VLSI-SOC, 2008.   Other CTT Alumni: Çagatay Karabat,M.S.(2007),“Robust Blind and Nonblind Detection for Digital Watermarking,” working at TUBİTAK UEKAE Riza Donmez, M.S. (2003), “Digital Implementation of ETSI OFDM Symbol Synchronizer Based on Sliding Correlation,” working at ST microelectronics. H. Ercument Zorlu,M.S.(2003) “Experimental Evaluation of Synchronization Errors on the Performance of Smart Antenna Algorithms for CDMA,”   working at TUBİTAK-MAM.        Hakan Baba,B.S. (2007), pursuing Ph.D. at  Stanford University. Umut Arslan,B.S. (2003), pursuing Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University. Ersin Tuysuzoglu, B.S. (2007), working at Garanti Technology. Deniz Turdu, B.S. (2006) Mehmet Abbak, B.S. (2006) Arman Cagdas Kizilkale, (2004).