Professional Service and Activities

2010

  • Steering board member and general chair of Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security - GameSec 2010.
  • Co-organizer of the session "Games and Mechanisms for Control" at IEEE CDC 2010 with Lacra Pavel.
  • Chair of the session "Communication Network/Visual Servo" in IEEE MSC-CCA 2010.
  • TPC member of the following conferences:
    - WiSec 2010
    - Rawnet 2010
    - WiOpt 2010
    - IEEE SMC 2010
    - GameNets 2011
    - Workshop on Game Theory and Resource Allocation for 4G (GeT-ReAl) 2011

2009

  • Co-organizer of the session "Spectrum Allocation and Mechanism Design" at the 47th Allerton Conference 2009, jointly with Holger Boche and Tamer Basar.
  • Publicity chair and chair of the session "Power Control I" of GameNets 2009.
  • Co-editor of GameComm special issue "Game Theory in Communication Networks" in Telecommunication Systems, Springer, (to appear), jointly with Nahum Shimkin, Laura Wynter, and Rachid ElAzouzi.
  • TPC member of the following conferences:
    - IEEE Infocom 2009
    - IFIP NTMS 2009
    - GameNets 2009
    - GameComm 2009
    - WiOpt 2009

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2008

  • Co-chair of GameComm 2008 Workshop jointly with Nahum Shimkin and Laura Wynter.
  • Co-organizer of the invited session "Game Theory for Networks and Security" at the 46th Allerton Conference 2008, jointly with Tamer Basar.
  • TPC member of the following conferences:
    - IEEE Infocom 2008
    - WiOpt 2008
    - IWQoS 2008

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2007

  • Chair of the session "MIMO, Diversity and Power Control" in WiOpt 2007.
  • Chair of the session "Pricing" in GameComm 2007.
  • Chair of the session "Optimization I" in IEEE Conf. on Control Applications (CCA) 2007.
  • TPC member of the following conferences:
    - IEEE Infocom 2007
    - ESAS 2007
    - GameComm 2007

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2006 and earlier

  • Associate editor of the IEEE Conf. on Control Applications (CCA) 2005.
  • Chair of the "Network Control II" session in IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control (CDC) 2003.

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Awards

Research and Publication

  • Best Paper Award in 5th Intl. Conf. on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP), 2010.
  • Best Paper Award in IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications (ICC), Comm. and Info. System Security Symposium, 2010.
  • Best Student-Paper Award (as co-author and supervisor) in ACM Multimedia, 2007.
  • Best Paper in Session Award, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2006.
  • Best Presentation in Session Award, IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), 2004.
  • Best Student-Paper Award in the IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA), 2003.
  • Travel award recipient in conferences: Infocom'03, WiOpt'03, CCA'03.

Personal Achievements

  • Robert T. Chien Research Award, Dept. of ECE, University of Illinois, 2006.
  • Ross J. Martin Research Award, College of Engineering, Univ. of Illinois, 2006.
  • Fulbright Scholarship, 1999-2001.
  • Ranked 29th among more than one million students in university entrance exams of Turkey, 1993.

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