Resume of Tangül Ü. Basar

Birth:

May 30, 1951; Dikili, Turkey

Current Position:

Lecturer, Electrical and Computer Engineering (1981- )
Lecturer, Coordinated Science Lab. (1981- )
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Office Address:

Coordinated Science Laboratory
University of Illinois
1308 West Main Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2307 U.S.A.

Degrees:

• Ph.D. in Communication Theory, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1978
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1975
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1973

Earlier Positions and Leaves:

• Visiting Research Scientist, INRIA, Centre de Sophia Antipolis, France, 1994-1995
• Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, August 1986-August 1989
• Lecturer in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Lecturer in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, January 1981- August 1986
• Assistant Professor, Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey, November 1979-December 1980 Research Fellow, Department of Electronics, Twente University of Technology, Enschede, The Netherlands, October 1978-October1979 Research Assistant, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. November 1976-June 1978
• Research Engineer, Electronics Division, Marmara Research Institute, Gebze, Turkey, February 1975-November 1976

Awards:

• Undergraduate and Doctoral student Fellowship of the Scientific and Industrial Research Council of Turkey; 1968-1970, 1975-1978
• Travel Grants for NATO Advanced Study Institutes :
  • Darlington, England,1977
  • Paris, France, 1978
  • Norwick, England, 1980
• NSF Travel Grants :
  • IEEE Information Theory Symposium, Les Arcs, France, 1982
  • IEEE Information Theory Symposium, Brighton, England, 1985
• Eta Kappa Nu Faculty Initiate, University of Illinois, November 1990
• 1997 Advisor's List for Advising Excellence, University of Illinois
• United Nations TOKTEN Fellow in 1991 :
  • Invited to give lectures on Spread Spectrum Communications, Bilkent University, Turkey, June 1991

Membership:

• IEEE, Senior Member
• SIGMA XI

Listed in:

• Who's Who in America (since 1992)

Summer Institutes and Conferences Attended:

• NATO Advanced Study Institute on Random Processes and its Applications, Darlington, England, August 1977.
• NATO Advanced Study Institute on Pattern Recognition, Paris, France, June 1978.
• NATO Advanced Study Institute on New Concepts in Multiuser Communication, Norwich, England, August 1980.
• Sixteenth Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, New Jersey, March 1982.
• IEEE Conference on Information Theory, Les Arcs, France, June 1982.
• IEEE Conference on Information Theory, Brighton, England, June 1985.
• 20th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, New Jersey, March 1986.
• IFAC Symposium on Microcomputer Applications in Process Control, Istanbul, Turkey, July 1986.
• IEEE Conference on Information Theory, Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 1986.
• Frontiers in Education Conference 1992, Nashville, TN, November 1992.
• 4th International Conference on Advances in Communication and Control, Rhodes, Greece; 14-18 June 1993
• Attended seminars on Selected Topics In Cryptography, Eurecom, France January-February 1995 (Given by James L. Massey from ETH, Zurich)

Other Professional Activities:

• Reviewed Papers for:
  • IEE Proceedings
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications
• Chaired Sessions at:
  • 19th Allerton Conference, October 1981, on Communication Systems.
  • 22nd Allerton Conference, October 1984, on Stochastic Systems.
  • IFAC Symposium on Microcomputer Application in Process Control, Turkey, July 1986, on Adaptive Systems.
  • 24th Allerton Conference, October 1986, on Control and Modeling of Markov Processes.
  • 31st Allerton Conference, October 1993, organized a session in Advances on Control, Communication and Signal Processing Education.

Book Reviews:

• Mischa Schwartz, Information Transmission, Modulation and Noise, Fourth Edition (reviewed in 1989 for McGraw-Hill Book Company)
• Peyton Z. Peebles, Probability, Random Variables, and Random Signal Principles (reviewed in 1989 for IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine)
• Chakravarty, Guru and Ravi, Probability, Statistics, and Random Processes (reviewed in 1990 for West Educational Publishing)

Courses Taught at UIUC

• ECE 309 Signal and System Analysis
• ECE 313 Probabilistic Methods of Signal and System Analysis
• ECE 359 Analog and Pulse Communication Systems
• ECE 361 Introduction to Digital Communication Systems
• ECE 371SF Digital Communication Laboratory

Committee Assignments at UIUC

• Member of the Committee for Student Evaluations and Awards (ECE Dept.)
• Member of Curriculum Committee (ECE Dept.)
• Member of Scholarships, Student Awards, and Honors Committee (ECE Dept.)

Other Instructional Activities at UIUC

• Master Thesis Supervisor (Ken Fisher, Different Coding Schemes for a Delta Modulation System)
• Advisor for several students in SROP summer research program (Summers of 1991, 1992, 1994) (Summer Research Opportunities Program for Minority Students)
• Undergraduate Research and Honors Project courses Advisor (for ECE 296 and ECE 272)
• Some of the recent project topics:
  • Design of a Phase Locked Loop (John Bushert, Spring 1994)
  • Analysis of Predetection Diversity Schemes for Mobile Receivers (Harold Looney, SROP program, Summer 1992; Jun Wu, Fall 1993)
  • Design of a Nonrecursive Filter for a 2400 bits/sec Data Modem (Thida Lwin, Fall 1992; Betty Fleurimont, SROP program, Summer 1994)
  • Performance Analysis for an SSB-FM Modulation System (Mymy Nguyen, Summer 1994)
  • Power Spectral Densities for Digitally Modulated Signals (Robert Denardo, Summer 1994)
  • Selection and Switched Diversity Systems with Rayleigh and Ricean Channels

Current research interests

• Optimum Transmitter-Receiver Design in Communication Systems
• Spread Spectrum Communication Systems
• Jamming Problems in Information Transmission
• Mobile Radio Systems

Publications

Chapters in Books

• Minimax Causal Transmission of Gaussian Stochastic Processes over Channels Subject to Correlated Jamming, "Chapter in Advances in Communications and Signal Processing, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Springer-Verlag, 129, pp.39-49, 1989 (with T. Basar).

Journal Articles

• Optimum linear coding for continuous-time communication systems with noisy side information at the decoder, IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, vol.25, no.5, pp.612-616, September 1979 ( with T. Basar).
• Performance bounds and optimal linear coding for discrete-time multichannel communication systems, IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, vol.26, no.2, March 1980 ( with B. Sankur and H. Abut).
• Optimal coding and decoding schemes for the transmission of stochastic processes over a continuous-time stochastic channel with partially unknown statistics, Stochastics, vol.8, pp. 213-237, 1982 (with T. Basar).
• A bandwidth expanding scheme for communication channels with noiseless feedback and in the presence of jamming noise, Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol.317, no. 2, pp. 73-88, February 1984 (with T. Ba\c sar).
• Partial-correlation effects in direct sequence spread spectrum multiple access communication systems, IEEE Trans. on Communications, vol.32, no. 5, pp. 567-573, May 1984 (with D.V. Sarwate and M.B. Pursley).
• Optimum linear causal coding schemes for stochastic processes in the presence of correlated jamming, IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, vol.35, no.1, January 1989 (with T. Basar).

Conference Articles

• Design of a digital filter for a 2400 bits/sec data modem, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Information Theory, Ronneby, Sweden, June 1976.
• Performance bounds and optimal linear coding for discrete-time multichannel communication systems, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Information Theory, Griguano, Italy, June 1979 (with B. Sankur and H. Abut).
• Optimal coding for continuous-time multiple access communication systems, Proceedings of 7th Scientific Congress of the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, Kusadasi, Turkey, October 1980.
• Robust linear coding in continuous-time communication systems in the presence of jamming and with noisy side information at the decoder, Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, New Jersey, March 1982 (with T. Basar).
• Optimum coding and decoding schemes for the transmission of stochastic processes through continuous time stochastic channels with partially unknown statistics, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Information Theory, Les Arcs, France, June 1982 ( with T. Basar).
• A bandwidth expanding scheme for communication channels with noiseless feedback and in the presence of unknown jamming noise, Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, March 1983 ( with T. Basar).
• New results on the partial correlation properties of sequences, Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, March 1983 (with D.V. Sarwate).
• Minimax linear encoding schemes for degraded Gaussian relay channels with unknown jamming noise, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Information Theory, St.Jovite, Quebec, Canada, September 1983 (with T. Basar).
• Minimax transmission policies for continuous-time channels with correlated partial jamming, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Information Theory, Brighton, England, June 1985 (with T. Basar).
• Optimum linear causal coding schemes for stochastic processes in the presence of the correlated jamming, Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, New Jersey, March 1986 (with T. Basar).
• Minimax causal transmission of Gaussian stochastic processes over channels subject to correlated jamming, Proceedings of 1988 Com Con Advances in Communications and Control Systems, Baton Rouge, LA, October 1988 (with T. Basar).
• A Digital communication laboratory course for Undergraduates at UIUC, 31st Allerton Conference, Monticello, IL., Sept. 29--Oct. 1, 1993 (with S. J. Franke).