My Life: A Visual Story
This picture summarizes various stages of my life starting from my birth in Turkey, continuing with my education in Istanbul high school, Bogazici University, work experience in Alcatel Telecom (Istanbul), my marriage to Ozlem, move to USA to study in University of Illinois, getting my PhD degree, move to Germany where I started working in Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, the birth of my son Alper, and my assistant professorship in TU-Berlin, and the birth of my second son Altay. The story still continues...
Biography
Tansu Alpcan received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in 1998. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2001 and 2006, respectively. His research involves applications of distributed decision making, game theory, and control to various security and resource allocation problems in complex and networked systems. He has received Fulbright scholarship in 1999 and best student paper award in IEEE Conf. on Control Applications in 2003. Tansu Alpcan has received Robert T. Chien Research Award from the UIUC Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Ross J. Martin Research Award from the UIUC College of Engineering in 2006. He was an associate editor for IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA) in 2005 and has been TPC member of several conferences including IEEE Infocom 2007-2009. He was the co-chair of the workshop on Game Theory in Communication Networks (GameComm) 2008 and publicity chair of GameNets 2009. He is steering board member and general chair of Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec) 2010. He has received the best paper award in 2010 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications (ICC), Comm. and Inf. Sys. Security Symposium. Tansu Alpcan has been a member of IEEE since 1998. He is the (co-)author of more than 90 journal and conference articles as well as the book "Network Security: A Decision and Game Theoretic Appraoch" published by Cambridge University Press. He has worked as a senior research scientist in Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin, Germany, between 2006 and 2009. Tansu Alpcan is currently assistant professor (juniorprofessur) in Technical University Berlin while continuing his affiliation with Deutsche Telekom Laboratories.
