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.

NEWS:

· I AM LOOKING FOR MASTER THESIS/PROJECT STUDENTS. If you are interested, send me an email (including your background briefly and courses you have taken at SJSU (attach your unofficial transcript)).

· EE 259 (Selected Topics in Signal Processing): This course is an experimental approach to wireless communications. The experiments will be based on software defined radios (USRP Board + GNU Radio), MATLAB, and mobile application development. Various wireless standards will be discussed. Pre-requisites: EE 210 (could be co-requisite), basic knowledge of probability (EE 102), or instructor’s consent.

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