BIRSEN SIRKECI-MERGEN Assistant Professor Electrical Engineering Department San Jose State University Office: Engineering E359 Telephone: (408) 924 3913 Fax: (408)924-3925 E-mail: birsen.sirkeci@sjsu.edu

Biography: Birsen Sirkeci-Mergen joined San Jose State University (SJSU) in 2007 as an assistant professor in the department of electrical engineering. Prior to joining SJSU, she was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, CA. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in 2006. Her research lies in the areas of wireless communications, sensor networks and statistical signal processing. She received the Fred Ellersick Award for the best unclassified paper in MILCOM 2005 with her co-authors.

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