ELECTRICAL - ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

Prof.

Elif Uysal

Principal Investigator, Communication Networks Research Group
Fellow, IEEE
Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)
Fellow, Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA)

Room No

D219

Tel No

+90 (312) 210-2323

E-mail

uelif metu.edu.tr (admin. contact Ms. Ayça Osunluk aycao@metu.edu.tr)

Research Group Web Page

http://cng-eee.metu.edu.tr/

News & Announcements

Graduate students in Communications or Computer Science related areas, who are highly motivated to do a competitive, highly cited thesis in a theoretical or applied area of networking are welcome to contact Prof. Uysal.

NEW Postdoctoral Associate and PhD Openings: Please contact the CNG lab coordinator Ms. Ayca Osunluk (aycao@metu.edu.tr).

The current focus of our research is Semantic-Aware communication and Data Freshness in next generation networks, with applications to IoT, NTN/Satellite IoT, Space Communications, and the evolving 6G standard.

This research program builds on our foundational work on the Age of Information (AoI), a data freshness metric that captures the needs of status update-based communication, of growing importance in remote monitoring/actuation and learning. A short video description of the AoI concept (in Turkish) is here: https://youtu.be/lLoDOk-Zgko

For broad impact of the goal-oriented communication and networking approaches to sustainable cities, we have formed the SUIT (Sustainable Urbanization Through Innovative Technologies) platform, funded by TUBİTAK under the 1004 program. A presentation on SUIT is here. A video description of SUIT (in Turkish) can be found here.

Current Synergistic Activities: Prof. Uysal is currently serving as

Director, SUIT (Sustainable Urbanization Through Innovative Technologies) Research Platform
Chair, METU Parlar Foundation For Education and Research
Member of Advisory Board, IEEE ComSoc Turkey Branch.
Member, IEEE Turkey Awards Committee
Member, 6G Platform.

Education

Ph. D: Stanford University; S.M.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.Sc, METU

Research Interests

Information Freshness and Goal Oriented Communications for Networked Systems, in particular:
- Link and transport layer scheduling for Remote Inference, and other MTC applications, through exploiting freshness (e.g. AoI, QAoI) and other goal-oriented performance metrics (e.g. mean square error)
- The development of novel age-aware or goal-oriented random access protocol and implementation in LoRa/LoRaWAN
- IPR development for massive MTC access, routing and handover in Nonterrestrial Networks (NTN) toward 6G
Energy efficient/energy-neutral communication
- Optimal resource allocation in energy harvesting communication systems
- Implementation of energy harvesting communication systems

Publications

Patents/patent applications:

Nonterrestrial Networks (NTN):

• A. Topbaş, E. T. Ceran, E. Uysal, A. Arsal, “Multi-User Relay Scheduling with Peak Age Guarantee,” application 2023, pending.
• S. Çıtır, E. T. Ceran, E. Uysal, A. Arsal, “Method For Reducing Handovers In High Altitude Platform Networks Using Dynamically Adjustable Buffer Zones,” application 2023, pending.
• T.Aydın, S. Çıtır, E. T. Ceran, E. Uysal, A. Arsal, “A Method For Dynamically Adjusting Handover Thresholds,” application 2023, pending.
• T.Aydın, E. T. Ceran, E. Uysal, A. Arsal, “A Delay Difference Based Group Handover Method in Non-Terrestrial Networks,” application 2023, pending.
• S. Çıtır, E. T. Ceran, E. Uysal, A. Arsal, “Handover Method Using High Altitude Platforms in Non-Terrestrial Networks and a System,” application 2023, pending.
• S. Çıtır, E. T. Ceran, E. Uysal, A. Arsal, “Orbit Aware Bandwidth Part Configuration in Non-Terrestrial Networks,” application 2023, pending.
• S. Çıtır, E. T. Ceran, E. Uysal, A. Arsal, “Priority-Driven Dynamic Resource Reservation for Random Access in LEO Satellite IoT Networks,” application 2023, pending.
• A. Topbaş, E. T. Ceran, E. Uysal, A. Arsal, “Random Access Method for NB-IoT Devices,” application 2023, pending.

Flow Control

S. Baghaee, M. S. Herfeh, T. Bacinoglu, E. Uysal, "A³L-FEC: Age Aware Application Layer Forward Error Correction communication protocol", (application 2023, pending).

LP-WAN and Random-Access

O. Yavaşcan, M. Ahmetoğlu, E. Uysal, "Çoklu Mini Dilimli Eşikli ALOHA" (Multiple Mini Slotted Threshold ALOHA - MuMISTA), (application no 2021/013006) 2022.
O. Gencay, E. Uysal, "LoRaWAN Tunneling Relay", application 2023.

Energy Harvesting Communication Systems:

A Akman, F Ozelik, E Uysal-Biyikoglu, C Kement, "Energy Harvesting Communication System", Patent Registration no. 2013 01138 (Turkey), May 21, 2015.

Recent papers:

E. Uysal, Goal-Oriented Communications for Interplanetary and Non-Terrestrial Networks, https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14534
O. T. Yavascan, M. Ahmetoglu, E. Uysal, U. Gurbuz, O. Gencay and A. Balci, DCCTA: Age of Information in Slotted ALOHA under Duty Cycle Constraints, ICNC 2024.
O. Gencay, A. Balci, E. T. Ceran and E. Uysal, Ensuring a Semantically Effective IoT Network
Through Blockchain with Delayed Feedback, ICNC 2024.
C. Ari, M.K.C. Shisher, E. Uysal, Y. Sun, Goal-Oriented Communications for Remote Inference with Two-Way Delay, 2024.
Ildiz, M.E., Yavascan, O.T., Uysal, E., Kartal, O.T., Pull or Wait: How to Optimize Query Age of Information, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, 2023 (10.1109/JSAIT.2023.3346308).
O.T. Yavascan, M. Ahmetoglu and E. Uysal. "MuMiSTA: An Age-Aware Reservation-Based Random Access Policy." MOSC (Modeling and Optimization for Semantic Communications) Workshop, (in conj. with WiOpt 2023), Singapore, August 2023.
T. Kartal, O. Kaya, E. Uysal, Resource Allocation in the Finite Blocklength Regime under PAoI and Delay Violation Constraints, RAWNET (in conj. with WiOpt 2023), Singapore, August 2023.
Ahmetoglu, M., Yavascan, O.T., Uysal, E. MiSTA: An Age-Optimized Slotted ALOHA Protocol (2022) IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 9 (17), pp. 15484-15496. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85131744783&doi=10.1109%2fJIOT.2022.3179132&partnerID=40&md5=5e26fef4bf9f0871f912b79ab2374cd5
Uysal, E., Kaya, O., Ephremides, A., Gross, J., Codreanu, M., Popovski, P., Assaad, M., Liva, G., Munari, A., Soret, B., Soleymani, T., Johansson, K.H. Semantic Communications in Networked Systems: A Data Significance Perspective (2022) IEEE Network, 36 (4), pp. 233-240. Cited 25 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85139350047&doi=10.1109%2fMNET.106.2100636&partnerID=40&md5=4407b520f146dc67b52d4cb4d88e7a66
Oğuz, T.K., Ceran, E.T., Uysal, E., Girici, T. Implementation and Evaluation of Age-Aware Downlink Scheduling Policies in Push-Based and Pull-Based Communication (2022) Entropy, 24 (5), art. no. 673. Cited 4 times.https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85130331888&doi=10.3390%2fe24050673&partnerID=40&md5=742f4873d213482ab7941b00b7e6ad02
Yavascan, O.T., Uysal, E. Analysis of Threshold ALOHA in a Packet Erasure Channel [Paket Silme Kanalinda Yaş Eşikli ALOHA Analizi](2022) 2022 30th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2022. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85138747979&doi=10.1109%2fSIU55565.2022.9864738&partnerID=40&md5=bd8b5f66fad57f98735ac449069d6acf
Ildiz, M.E., Avsar, S., Uysal, E. An Inequality for Query Age of Information and Age of Information [Sorgu Ani Bilgi Yaşi (QAoI) ve Ortalama Bilgi Yaşi (AoI) Arasinda bir Eşitsizlik](2022) 2022 30th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2022. Cited 1 time. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85138742755&doi=10.1109%2fSIU55565.2022.9864717&partnerID=40&md5=3dbc1cc76acfd8bfe25f9d34f3edcd32
Ildiz, M.E., Yavascan, O.T., Uysal, E., Kartal, O.T. Query Age of Information: Optimizing AoI at the Right Time (2022) IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings, 2022-June, pp. 144-149. Cited 2 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85136263009&doi=10.1109%2fISIT50566.2022.9834897&partnerID=40&md5=8a55097776eca21bc612458de3a38e9e
Yavascan, O.T., Ceran, E.T., Cakir, Z., Uysal, E., Kaya, O. When to Pull Data for Minimum Age Penalty (2021) 2021 19th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2021.
Ghaderi, J., Uysal, E., Xue, G. Welcome Message from the WiOpt'21 TPC Chairs (2021) 2021 19th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2021. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85119482386&doi=10.23919%2fWiOpt52861.2021.9589337&partnerID=40&md5=1120c4d0b990c9e4ca8ed50fcdb38b90
Munari, A., Uysal, E. Information Freshness in Random Access Channels for IoT Systems (2021) 2021 International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking, BalkanCom 2021, pp. 112-116. Cited 1 time. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85119447257&doi=10.1109%2fBalkanCom53780.2021.9593228&partnerID=40&md5=6b5b1e613508999eac9504b293db8bbb
Guloglu, U., Baghaee, S., Uysal, E. Evaluation of Age Control Protocol (ACP) and ACP+ on ESP32 (2021) Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, 2021-September. Cited 1 time. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85118190230&doi=10.1109%2fISWCS49558.2021.9562140&partnerID=40&md5=51f9e0196fca99a351c7b3886451cee6
Oguz, T.K., Uysal, E., Girici, T. Implementation and Evaluation of Age-Aware Downlink Scheduling Policies (2021) 2021 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking, BlackSeaCom 2021. Cited 1 time. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85115731993&doi=10.1109%2fBlackSeaCom52164.2021.9527734&partnerID=40&md5=07b3a3922f2987f5da87e49ac5a7cd97
Ahmetoglu, M., Yavascan, O.T., Uysal, E. MiSTA: Threshold-ALOHA with Mini Slots (2021) 2021 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking, BlackSeaCom 2021. Cited 2 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85110813200&doi=10.1109%2fBlackSeaCom52164.2021.9527766&partnerID=40&md5=4c7157bc3f84f7d2693594a459b4742f
Yavascan, O.T., Uysal, E. Analysis of Slotted ALOHA with an Age Threshold (2021) IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 39 (5), art. no. 9377549, pp. 1456-1470. Cited 39 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85102719885&doi=10.1109%2fJSAC.2021.3065043&partnerID=40&md5=86213c370821d3b937deeb67d24f093e
Yavascan, O.T., Uysal, E. Analysis of Age-Aware Slotted ALOHA (2020) 2020 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC Wkshps 2020 - Proceedings, art. no. 367557. Cited 4 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85102926568&doi=10.1109%2fGCWkshps50303.2020.9367557&partnerID=40&md5=877faf7f1268c144ce68e6d051eff5a2
Atabay, D.C., Uysal, E., Kaya, O. Improving age of information in random access channels (2020) IEEE INFOCOM 2020 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2020, art. no. 9163053, pp. 912-917. Cited 21 times.https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85091513073&doi=10.1109%2fINFOCOMWKSHPS50562.2020.9163053&partnerID=40&md5=9dba3ca87bb17dbb45389c9fe2dd68bf
Bacinoglu, B.T., Sun, Y., Uysal, E. On the Trackability of Stochastic Processes Based on Causal Information (2020) IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings, 2020-June, art. no. 9174285, pp. 2228-2233. Cited 1 time. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85090414299&doi=10.1109%2fISIT44484.2020.9174285&partnerID=40&md5=d0865b741f63d050acc78673299aeda6
Beytur, H.B., Baghaee, S., Uysal, E. Towards AoI-aware Smart IoT Systems (2020) 2020 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, ICNC 2020, art. no. 9049792, pp. 353-357. Cited 17 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85083465807&doi=10.1109%2fICNC47757.2020.9049792&partnerID=40&md5=366e518cc32c3f81757e859aed52a5e5
Sun, Y., Polyanskiy, Y., Uysal, E. Sampling of the Wiener Process for Remote Estimation over a Channel with Random Delay (2020) IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 66 (2), art. no. 8812616, pp. 1118-1135. Cited 59 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85076643165&doi=10.1109%2fTIT.2019.2937336&partnerID=40&md5=ef5bd69f850d7a56ab7191fced0d655c
Bacinoglu, B.T., Sun, Y., Uysal, E., Mutlu, V. Optimal status updating with a finite-battery energy harvesting source (2019) Journal of Communications and Networks, 21 (3), art. no. 8764471, pp. 280-294. Cited 45 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85069486427&doi=10.1109%2fJCN.2019.000033&partnerID=40&md5=9f41982d5861adb5669eb3b713c131c2
Chamanian, S., Baghaee, S., Ulusan, H., Zorlu, O., Uysal-Biyikoglu, E., Kulah, H. Implementation of Energy-Neutral Operation on Vibration Energy Harvesting WSN (2019) IEEE Sensors Journal, 19 (8), art. no. 8601304, pp. 3092-3099. Cited 35 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85063260613&doi=10.1109%2fJSEN.2019.2890902&partnerID=40&md5=7102009bb7766df4dfb77db7ef46514e
Beytur, H.B., Uysal, E. Age Minimization of Multiple Flows using Reinforcement Learning (2019) 2019 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, ICNC 2019, art. no. 8685524, pp. 339-343. Cited 24 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85064989898&doi=10.1109%2fICCNC.2019.8685524&partnerID=40&md5=8bd618ce762c829cedb9f2bc7cfcf821
Ostman, J., Devassy, R., Durisi, G., Uysal, E. Peak-Age Violation Guarantees for the Transmission of Short Packets over Fading Channels (2019) INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2019, art. no. 8845098, pp. 109-114. Cited 14 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85073203549&doi=10.1109%2fINFCOMW.2019.8845098&partnerID=40&md5=215126d32927a355ef8f4e9201853144
Beytur, H.B., Baghaee, S., Uysal, E. Measuring age of information on real-life connections (2019) 27th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2019, art. no. 8806423. Cited 15 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85071972591&doi=10.1109%2fSIU.2019.8806423&partnerID=40&md5=52baf3a5ea01127a2c1a152d0ce1c8a5
Devassy, R., Durisi, G., Ferrante, G.C., Simeone, O., Uysal, E. Reliable Transmission of Short Packets Through Queues and Noisy Channels Under Latency and Peak-Age Violation Guarantees (2019) IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 37 (4), art. no. 8640078, pp. 721-734. Cited 72 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85063284408&doi=10.1109%2fJSAC.2019.2898760&partnerID=40&md5=e20fcc9b6428845bf566f602183fc7d5
Kadota, I., Sinha, A., Uysal-Biyikoglu, E., Singh, R., Modiano, E. Scheduling policies for minimizing age of information in broadcast wireless networks (2018) IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 26 (6), art. no. 8514816, pp. 2637-2650. Cited 286 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85055886509&doi=10.1109%2fTNET.2018.2873606&partnerID=40&md5=602cbaf22a75a38ef83c2ea6742243a4
Sac, H., Bacinoglu, T., Uysal-Biyikoglu, E., Durisi, G. Age-Optimal Channel Coding Blocklength for an M/G/1 Queue with HARQ (2018) IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC, 2018-June, art. no. 8445909. Cited 48 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85053437534&doi=10.1109%2fSPAWC.2018.8445909&partnerID=40&md5=f12831b668dba93354f7cab2200f62a7
Devassy, R., Durisi, G., Ferrante, G.C., Simeone, O., Uysal-Biyikoglu, E. Delay and Peak-Age Violation Probability in Short-Packet Transmissions (2018) IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings, 2018-June, art. no. 8437671, pp. 2471-2475. Cited 50 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85052445999&doi=10.1109%2fISIT.2018.8437671&partnerID=40&md5=febfee672fed1ebf7a3fc371aed72436
Bacinoglu, B.T., Sun, Y., Uysal-Bivikoglu, E., Mutlu, V. Achieving the Age-Energy Tradeoff with a Finite-Battery Energy Harvesting Source (2018) IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings, 2018-June, art. no. 8437573, pp. 876-880. Cited 74 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85050799464&doi=10.1109%2fISIT.2018.8437573&partnerID=40&md5=1a795fc9ceed6549bf4d4cd1e03390c6
Sönmez, C., Baghaee, S., Ergişi, A., Uysal-Biyikoglu, E. Age-of-Information in Practice: Status Age Measured Over TCP/IP Connections Through WiFi, Ethernet and LTE (2018) 2018 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking, BlackSeaCom 2018, art. no. 8433695. Cited 20 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85052529296&doi=10.1109%2fBlackSeaCom.2018.8433695&partnerID=40&md5=d2fc55bb5b59b858d6fb757c29b1638c
Beytur, H.B., Uysal-Biyikoglu, E. Minimizing Age of Information for Multiple Flows (2018) 2018 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking, BlackSeaCom 2018, art. no. 8433704. Cited 2 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85052510958&doi=10.1109%2fBlackSeaCom.2018.8433704&partnerID=40&md5=d36e0056bde4680b8fdb47850d4a1212
Sun, Y., Uysal-Biyikoglu, E., Kompella, S. Age-optimal updates of multiple information flows (2018) INFOCOM 2018 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, pp. 136-141. Cited 76 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85050671520&doi=10.1109%2fINFCOMW.2018.8406945&partnerID=40&md5=af42bc4aa62d31fd5a8b96b32551c63e
Beytur, H.B., Uysal-Biyikoglu, E. Minimizing age of information on multi-flow networks [Çok akişli aǧlarda bilgi yaşini azaltma] (2018) 26th IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2018, pp. 1-4. Cited 7 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85050823399&doi=10.1109%2fSIU.2018.8404772&partnerID=40&md5=5eed1ddea99faea99afb7c713c5d24c4
Sert, E., Sonmez, C., Baghaee, S., Uysal-Biyikoglu, E. Optimizing age of information on real-life TCP/IP connections through reinforcement learning (2018) 26th IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2018, pp. 1-4. Cited 25 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85050812120&doi=10.1109%2fSIU.2018.8404794&partnerID=40&md5=dbb07131a542a0468901f2460a9af57f
Bacinoglu, B.T., Kaya, O., Uysal-Biyikoglu, E. Energy efficient transmission scheduling for channel-adaptive wireless energy transfer (2018) IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC, 2018-April, pp. 1-6. Cited 3 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85049173707&doi=10.1109%2fWCNC.2018.8377179&partnerID=40&md5=fe570273ee979e13cbd8296d48545618
Sun, Y., Uysal-Biyikoglu, E., Yates, R.D., Koksal, C.E., Shroff, N.B. Update or Wait: How to Keep Your Data Fresh (2017) IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 63 (11), art. no. 8000687, pp. 7492-7508. Cited 492 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85029152444&doi=10.1109%2fTIT.2017.2735804&partnerID=40&md5=38fb072c4e0de5e330018b690b0e34fd
Bacinoglu, B.T., Uysal-Biyikoglu, E., Koksal, C.E. Finite-Horizon Energy-Efficient Scheduling with Energy Harvesting Transmitters over Fading Channels (2017) IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 16 (9), art. no. 7959595, pp. 6105-6118. Cited 9 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85023767144&doi=10.1109%2fTWC.2017.2718544&partnerID=40&md5=0fdb141eae64eb129445ea8104f5e8ea
Bacinoglu, B.T., Uysal-Biyikoglu, E. Scheduling status updates to minimize age of information with an energy harvesting sensor (2017) IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings, art. no. 8006703, pp. 1122-1126. Cited 99 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85034111103&doi=10.1109%2fISIT.2017.8006703&partnerID=40&md5=b7bfb82d615f508551becb99e76a3dfd
Sun, Y., Polyanskiy, Y., Uysal-Biyikoglu, E. Remote estimation of the Wiener process over a channel with random delay (2017) IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings, art. no. 8006542, pp. 321-325. Cited 114 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85034056257&doi=10.1109%2fISIT.2017.8006542&partnerID=40&md5=19ad3eb030c9273c72ca50c48febcd4b
Bacinoglu, B.T., Uysal-Biyikoglu, E. Enerji hasatçi ve batarya kisitli bir sensör ile en taze veri güncellemelerinin gönderilmesi(2017) 2017 25th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2017, art. no. 7960442. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85026324351&doi=10.1109%2fSIU.2017.7960442&partnerID=40&md5=78e55737cb1411725452ed70718433ad
Ceran, E.T., Erkilic, T., Uysal-Biyikoglu, E., Girici, T., Leblebicioglu, K. Optimal energy allocation policies for a high altitude flying wireless access point (2017) Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 28 (4), art. no. e3034, . Cited 11 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84961266560&doi=10.1002%2fett.3034&partnerID=40&md5=2ea564a586c82b764c50b601bf4a739c
Kadota, I., Uysal-Biyikoglu, E., Singh, R., Modiano, E. Minimizing the Age of Information in broadcast wireless networks (2017) 54th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2016, art. no. 7852321, pp. 844-851. Cited 156 times. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85015202110&doi=10.1109%2fALLERTON.2016.7852321&partnerID=40&md5=d8fbdf99dbcdb11e49d439e23f8750c8
Tekbiyik, N., Uysal-Biyikoglu, E. Resource management and scheduling in WSNs powered by ambient energy harvesting (2017) Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks: Applications, Protocols, and Standards, pp. 101-118. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85052592712&doi=10.1201%2fb14072&partnerID=40&md5=b0f4b42951fcbb7c6e26125c6900060d

Selected invited presentations:

"Goal Oriented Communication for the Scale-up of MTC", CS Distinguished Seminar, Chalmers University, Sweden (https://cng-eee.metu.edu.tr/blog/2023/11/15/prof-uysal-gave-an-online-p…), Nov. 10, 2023.
Native AI as Enabler of Semantic or Goal-Oriented Communication in 6G and Beyond, in Native AI and Semantic Communications Workshop at PIMRC 2023, Toronto, Canada, Sep. 5, 2023.
The Role of Information Freshness and Semantics in 6G, 3rd 6G Summit on Connecting the Unconnected, KAUST, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Jan. 30, 2023.
The Role of Information Freshness in Next Generation Communication Systems, Invited Talk, Sabanci University, Sep. 29, 2022.
The Role of Information Freshness and Semantics in Next Generation Networks, Invited Tutorial (with Onur Kaya), Advanced Satellite Multimedia Conference, Graz, Austria, Sep. 7, 2022.
Query Age of Information: An Operational Metric for Semantic Communication, Huawei – IEEE ITSoc Hong Kong Joint Workshop on Semantic Information Theory (Online), May 25, 2022: Slides & Talk Video
Age-aware Random Access, Bilkent University, Dec. 25, 2021.
Update or Wait: Redesigning Networks for Information Freshness, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Automatic Control Dept. Sweden, 2019.
Optimizing Peak Age of Information and Delay Violation Probability in the Finite Blocklength Regime, Information Theory and Applications Workshop, University of California San Diego, Feb. 12, 2019.
Age-optimal Threshold Policies for an Energy Harvesting Sensor, SPAWC 2018 Invited Session on Age of Information (19th IEEE Int. Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications), Kalamata, Greece, Jun. 25-28, 2018.
Scheduling Status Updates from a Sensor to Minimize the Age of Information at the Destination, presented at the Foundations of Wireless Networking Workshop at Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany, Jul. 3, 2017.
Age-Optimal Status Updating with an Energy Harvesting Sender, Information Theory and Applications Workshop, University of California San Diego, Feb. 13, 2017.
Lazy Schedules for Freshest Data and Optimal Use of Renewable Energy in Networks, Micro and Nano Technology Lab, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA, Sep. 30, 2016.
Energy Harvesting Networks, Northeastern University, Boston, Apr. 23, 2016.
AGELESS: Scheduling Policies with Age as Objective, ITA 2016, Information Theory and Applications Workshop, University of California San Diego, Feb. 5, 2016.
Age of Information: Controlling the Freshness of Status Updates Under Energy Constraints”, Keynote Speech, The Gelenbe Symposium, IEEE Symp. on Computers & Communication, Imperial College, London. Sep. 21, 2015.
When to Update Data, Lab. for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Oct. 2015.

Awards & Grants

ERC Advanced Grant 2024
Fellow, Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA), 2024
Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, 2023
IEEE Fellow, 2022
Young Scientist Prize Scholarship, The Science Academy (Turkey), 2014-2016
IBM Faculty Award, 2011
TUBITAK Kariyer Research Grant (2007-2009.)
NSF Foundations of Communication Research Grant (2006-2009.)
First place in the EE Ph.D. Quals at Stanford University, among 144 candidates (1999.)
Stanford Graduate Fellow (1999-2003.)
MIT Vinton Hayes Fellow (1997-1998.)
NATO Science Fellow (1997, scholarship not used)
Ranked 1 in the graduating class of 1997 of the Middle East Technical University
Bulent Kerim Altay Prize, awarded 6 times by METU EE Dept. (1994-1997.)
First place in the nationwide University Entrance Examination (OYS) in Turkey, among 750,000 entrants (1993.)

Courses / Laboratories

EE306: Statistical Signal Processing

Open CourseWare content (including lecture videos and handouts): https://ocw.metu.edu.tr/course/view.php?id=349

You can find EE306 lectures recorded in Spring 2022 on YouTube

EE532: Communication Network Analysis: This is a course that teaches the theoretical underpinnings of the design of communication networks and networking algorithms. Topics include Resource Allocation, Switch Scheduling, Scheduling in Wireless Networks, and Routing. EE532 is one of the required courses of the Communications area M.S. program, alternatively with EE536. A selection of the lectures is available on YouTube. EE531 or equivalent knowledge of discrete stochastic processes is strongly recommended.

ONLINE COURSES: (Open Courseware)

EE230: Probability and Random Variables: An introductory course on probability. Lecture videos recorded live at METU are available on YouTube. Lecture notes available here.

E435: Communications I.

EE531: Probability and Stochastic Processes: A graduate course on probability with emphasis on Discrete Stochastic Processes. Lecture videos recorded by METU GISAM are available on Open Courseware, and on Youtube.

EE590: Seminar. This is for our master's students to polish their presentation skills.

EE690: Graduate Seminars. The seminars are broadcast on YouTube. For the seminar program see https://eee.metu.edu.tr/seminars.

Biography

Elif Uysal is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the Middle East Technical University (METU), in Ankara, Turkey. She received the Ph.D. degree in EE from Stanford University in 2003, the S.M. degree in EECS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1999 and the B.S. degree from METU in 1997. From 2003-05 she was a lecturer at MIT, and from 2005-06 she was an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University (OSU). Since 2006, she has been with METU, and held visiting positions at OSU and MIT during 2014-2016. Her research interests are at the junction of communication and networking theories, with particular application to energy-efficient wireless networking. Dr. Uysal was elected a Fellow of IEEE in 2022 for “pioneering contributions to energy-efficient and low-latency communications”. She is a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, and of the Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance, a recipient of the ERC Advanced Grant 2024, TUBITAK BIDEB National Pioneer Researcher Grant 2020, 2014 Young Scientist Award from the Science Academy of Turkey, an IBM Faculty Award (2010), the Turkish National Science Foundation Career Award (2006), an NSF Foundations on Communication research grant (2006-2010), the MIT Vinton Hayes Fellowship, and the Stanford Graduate Fellowship. She has been serving as the Chair of the Executive Board and the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the METU Parlar Foundation for Education and Research, and assistant director of METU YTM-MATPUM, since 2022. In 2022, she founded FRESHDATA Technologies.

Dr. Uysal has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication, and as Lead Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal on Special Areas in Information Theory; as co-chair, IEEE ICC 2022 Communication Theory Symposium, general co-chair of the AoI Workshop under IEEE INFOCOM 2021,TPC Co-Chair, IEEE SIU 2021 and IEEE SIU 2022, the TPC co-chair of the First Workshop on the Age of Information (in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2018), track co-chair for IEEE PIMRC 2019, TPC co-chair of IEEE SIU 2021 and IEEE 2022, TPC co-chair of WiOpt 2021, and on the TPCs of various conferences including IEEE INFOCOM 2018, IEEE WiOpt 2018, IEEE ISIT 2021, ISIT 2022, IEEE MobiHoc 2017, IEEE ICC 2017, IEEE Globecom 2017.