Mutlu Koca Assistant Professor
Contact Information Bogazici University Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department 34342 Bebek Istanbul-Turkey Office: KB 235 Tel: +90-212- 359 64 19 Fax: +90-212-287 25 65 E-mail: mutlu.koca@boun.edu.tr

Background

Mutlu Koca received his B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and physics from Boğaziçi University in 1996, and his M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and applied mathematics from the The University of California at Davis (UC-Davis) in 2000. In 2001, he received his Ph.D. degree also from UC-Davis with a dissertation on turbo space-time equalization for broadband wireless systems.

Between 1998-2001, he worked as a lecturer at the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering of UC-Davis and taught courses on electric circuits,
electronics, and signals and systems. He also served as a post-doctoral
researcher in the same department between September and December 2001. 
 During
 2002, he was a member of the technical staff at Flarion Technologies, NJ, 
USA. Between 2003-2004,
 he was a research fellow at the Institut de Recherche en Informatique et
 Systèmes Aléatoires (IRISA), in Rennes, France, before joining Bogazici
University as a faculty member in 2004.
 In 2005, with Prof. Deliç, Dr. Koca established the Wireless Communications Laboratory within the EE Department and in 2006, he coordinated the efforts to develop a Wireless Communications and Networking Curriculum and to establish a Wireless Competency Laboratory funded by Intel.

Research Interests:

• Turbo, LDPC and turbo-like codes
• Iterative processing for communications
• Coded modulation methods
• Equalization and precoding for fading channels
• Space-time/frequency coding, and space-time signal processing for communications
• Broadband wireless communications
• Ultra-wideband communications
• User cooperative networks
• Multimedia over IP

Courses

• Fall 2006
• EE 477 Digital Communications
• EE 643 Digital Modulation

• Spring 2007
• EE 58E Wireless Communication Applications
• EE 644 Error Correcting Coding

Projects

· Integrated Broadband and Ultra-Wideband Transceiver Design (Principle investigator)

Funded by TUBITAK KARIYER Program (2006-2011)

· Robust Transceiver Design for Ultra-Wideband Communications (Investigator)

Funded by TUBITAK (2005-2008)

· Next Generation Satellite Networks and Applications (Investigator)

Funded by Turkish State Planning Organization, (2006-2008)

· Turbo and Space-Time Processing for Continuous Phase Modulation (Principle investigator)

Funded by Bogazici University Research Projects Fund (2006-2007)

· High Data Rate MIMO Transceiver Design (Principle Investigator)

Funded by Bogazici University Research Projects Fund, (2004-2005)

Publications

• Journal Articles
• Conference Proceedings

Students

Current Students

Okan Zafer Batur (Ph.D., Co-advised with Prof. Dundar)

Dissertetion: Robust Ultra-Wideband IC Design

Baris Ozgul (Ph.D.)

Dissertation: Advanced Transceiver Design for Continuous Phase Modulation (Co-advised with Prof. Delic)

Ozgur Dalkilic (M.Sc)

Thesis: User Cooperative Ultra-Wideband Networks

Ersen Ekrem (M.Sc.)

Thesis: Robust Synchronization for Ultra-Wideband Communications (Co-advised with Prof. Delic)

Oya Belioglu Gulesan (M.Sc)

Thesis: Noise Predictive Turbo MMSE Equalization

Cumhur Ozan Yalcin (M.Sc)

Thesis: User Cooperative Diversity in Wireless MIMO Sensor Networks

Graduates

Volkan Sevindik, M.Sc., 2006. (Ph.D. student at The University of California at Irvine)

Thesis: Space-Time-Polarization Diversity in MIMO Communication Systems

Ahmet Gökhan Ay, M.Sc. 2006 (Borusan Telekom)

Thesis: Blind Bayesian Multi-user Detection For Impulse Radio UWB Systems (Co-advised with Prof. Delic)