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 am working in Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, and the birth of my son Alper. 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 PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2001 and 2006, respectively. His research interests include network security, game theory, control and optimization of wired and wireless communication networks, resource allocation, and intrusion detection. He has received Fulbright scholarship in 1999 and best student paper award in IEEE Conference on Control Applications in 2003. He is the (co-)author of more than 50 journal and conference articles. 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 in 2007, 2008, and 2009. He is the co-chair of the workshop on Game Theory in Communication Networks (GameComm) 2008. Tansu 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. Tansu Alpcan has been a member of IEEE since 1998. He is currently a senior research scientist in Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, which is affiliated with Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany.
