Personal information
Name / DEMİRCİLER, Kemal
Address / Eastern MediterraneanUniversity
Advanced Technology Research and Development Institute
FamagustaMersin 10 Turkey
Telephone / +90 392 630
Fax / +90 392 630
E-mail /
Nationality / TRNC
Date of birth
Professional Memberships /
- Member, IEEE.
- Fellow, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.
- Member, Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society.
- Member, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.
- Member, Golden Key National Honor Society.
Work experience
• Dates (from – to) / April 04 – Present
• Name and address of employer / Eastern MediterraneanUniversity
Advanced Technologies Research and Development Institute
FamagustaMersin 10 Turkey
• Type of business or sector / Education
• Occupation or position held / Researcher
• Main activities and responsibilities
Education and training
• Dates (from – to) / 1998 – 2003
• Name and type of organization providing education and training / University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
• Principal subjects/occupational
skills covered
• Title of qualification awarded / PhD. In Electrical Engineering
• Level in national classification
(if appropriate)
• Dates (from – to) / 1996 – 1998
• Name and type of organization providing education and training / University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
• Principal subjects/occupational
skills covered / GPA : 396/4.00
• Title of qualification awarded / / M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering
• Level in national classification
(if appropriate)
• Dates (from – to) / 1992 – 1996
• Name and type of organization providing education and training / University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
• Principal subjects/occupational
skills covered / GPA: 4.00/4.00
• Title of qualification awarded / B. Sc. In Electrical Engineering
• Level in national classification
(if appropriate)
Personal skills
and competences /
- An unfortunate sea accident in 1985 resulted in my quadriplegia (C5-C6), thus, I am a wheelchair user.
- I enjoy watching basketball and soccer games and listening to music.
Mother tongue / Turkish
Other languages
English
• Reading skills / [excellent, good, basic ]
• Writing skills / [excellent, good, basic ]
• Verbal skills / [excellent, good, basic ]
Organizational& Administrative skills
and competences
. /
- Co-Chairmen, International Information Technology Workshop 2002, Nicosia, Cyprus, May 2002.
- Co-Chairmen, International Information Technology Workshop 2001, Nicosia, Cyprus, March 2001.
- Co-Chairmen, IMSC (IntegratedMediaSystemsCenter) Student Conference 2001, and member of the IMSC Student Council.
- Chairman, IMSC (IntegratedMediaSystemsCenter) Student Conference 2000, and member of the IMSC Student Council.
- Executive Member, USC Turkish Student Association, 1997 – 1998.
- Secretary, USC Turkish Student Association, 1996 – 1997.
- Treasurer, Tau Beta Pi Delta Chapter (USC), 1996 – 1997.
- Designer, USC Engineering Honors Colloquium Newsletter Covers, and member of the Newsletter Committee, 1995 – 1996.
- Designer, Tau Beta Pi Delta Chapter T-shirt graphics, 1995.
Technical skills
and competences / OS/Environments:UNIX, Windows.
Programming: Fortran, Pascal, C.
Tools:Matlab, LaTeX, MSWord, Excel, PowerPoint, Macromedia Director, Adobe Photoshop, Visio.
Research & Development Activities /
- Image compression.
- Optimal resource allocation.
- Joint source channel coding.
Recognition for Research / [Describe these competences and indicate where they were acquired.]
Other skills
and competences
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Additional information / [Include here any other information that may be relevant, for example contact persons, references, etc.]
Annexes / List of Publications
List of Citations
List of research Projects
Publications:
[1] K. M. Chugg, K. Demirciler and A. Ortega “Soft information for source channel coding and decoding,” in Proc. of thirty-third \International Asilomar Conference on Signals,Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, October 1999.
[2] K. Demirciler and A. Ortega, “Image coding based on multiple projections and multistage vector quantization,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2003, Barcelona, Spain, September 2003.
[3] K. Demirciler and A. Ortega “Vector Quantizer Design by Reduced Complexity Deterministic Annealing,” to appear in EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing.
Invited Talks:
[1] K. Demirciler “Third and Fourth Generations of Wireless Telephony,” International Information Technology Workshop 2001, Nicosia, Cyprus, March 2001.
[2] K. Demirciler “Channel Assignment Schemes for Wireless Communication Systems,” International Information Technology Workshop 2002, Nicosia, Cyprus, May 2002.
Course Projects:
[1] Designed and built a relational database system. Database Systems class project, Summer 2001.
[2] Applied an iterative decoding scheme to obtain soft outputs (reliability information for each bit being a 0 or a 1) of a vector quantizer, using a soft-mapper (SOMAP) module and a Soft-in-Soft-out (SISO) module concatenated as a code network. Data Communication class project, Fall 1999.
[3] Designed and developed an interactive media program, and built its functional prototype using Macromedia Director and Adobe Photoshop. Interactive Entertainment and Multimedia class project, Summer 1998.
[4] Implemented a basic real-time MPEG/audio encoder/decoder system using ADSP21060 Sharc processor using assembly language. Advanced DSP class group project, Spring 1997.
[5] Worked out xk-max formulas (used in Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems) for various fuzzy set functions, and assessed their feasibility to be used in Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems. Directed research, Spring 1997. [
[6] Developed 3D graphical ways to visualize a two-antecedent Fuzzy Logic Advisor (FLA) and a comparable regression model. Directed research, Spring 1996