Research Collaborations and Philosophy


Current Collaborations

It is a privilege and a source of joy for me to work with the following distinguished researchers:
  • University of Illinois, USA:

    Coordinated Science Lab. : Prof. Tamer Basar, Kien C. Nguyen, and the Information Trust Institute project Distributed Control of Trustworthy Networked Systems.

  • Stanford University, USA:

    Prof. Nick Bambos, Dr. Jatinder Singh (also T-Labs, USA), Dimitrios Tsamis, Michael Bloem, Jeff Mounzer.

  • University of Toronto, Canada:

    Prof. Lacra Pavel, Prof. Ashish Khisti, and Yan Pan.

  • Technical University Berlin, Germany:

    Prof. Holger Boche, Siddarth Naik, Dr. Slawomir Stanczak, Prof. Sahin Albayrak.

  • University of Bonn, Germany:

    Prof. Christian Bauckhage, Ashkan Sharifi.

  • IIT-Bombay, India:

    Prof. Vishwesh Kulkarni.

  • Sabanci University, Turkey:

    Prof. Ozgur Ercetin, Prof. Erkay Savas, Prof. Albert Levi, and Yunus Sarikaya.

Past Collaborations

University of Illinois: Prof. Prashant Mehta, Paul Wang. Iowa State University: Prof. Umesh Vaidya. Politecnico di Torino, Italy: Prof. Roberto Tempo. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Prof. Murat Arcak, Xingzhe Fan. Bogazici University, Turkey: Prof. Hakan Delic. University of Melbourne, Australia: Prof. Subhrakanti Dey. TUB - Dai-Labor: Robert Wetzker, Winfried Umbrath, Milena Ilic, Katja Luther, Rainer Bye, Stephan Schmidt. T-Labs: Sonja Buchegger, Olivier Dousse, Florian Metze, Pablo Vidales. Bogazici University: Prof. Kivanc Mihcak. EPFL: Prof. Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Panos Papadimitratos, Mohamed Kafsi.

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Research Philosophy

Talking about research and doing good research are two different things as evidenced by the non-negligible number of people doing one well better than the other. Nevertheless, all scientists have, in my opinion, a responsibility of communicating their work principles to peers and public. Some of the basic principles that guide my research are:

  • Scientific ethics: a scientists work is hard to check by ordinary people and even most of the peers. It is very important to be an honorable citizen of the community and set an example for the students.
  • Balance of theory and practice: a research engineer should not ignore one or the other.
  • Collaborations: in many cases good collaborations take the quality of work to the next level.
  • Teaching and supervision: it is a responsibility against knowledge itself to share it with the next generation. On the other hand, motivation and imagination are more important than knowledge since the latter immediately follows if the former two are present.
  • Open research: good research cannot be done behind closed doors. Results and code should be shared for the whole community to benefit from achievements as well as failures.
  • Scientific idealism: science should not be done for personal gain or satisfying own ego. It is should be motivated by the joy of learning, sharing (teaching), and contributing something (small or big) to humanity.
  • Modern research methods: as we enter the information age, it is a responsibility of scientists to improve their working methods to achieve higher efficiency and better information flow. Stale structures should be replaced with modern ones without delay using courage and determination.

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