News from WCAN (Yener)
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Ph.D. Thesis Defense by Shiyang Leng, 2:00PM, February 27, 2020 @ 127 EE East Building.
Title: Energy Cooperation and Information Freshness in Wireless Networks
CONGRATULATIONS Shiyang!
February 2020
Prof. Aylin Yener and co-authors have received the 2019 IEEE Communication Society Best Tutorial paper Award. Congratulations to Prof. Yener! Here is a picture from the award ceremony. Read the award winning paper here.
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Ph.D. Thesis Defense by Abdelrahman M. Ibrahim, 9:15AM, April 23, 2019 @ 127 EE East Building.
Title: Data Storage and Energy Management in Emerging Networks
CONGRATULATIONS Abdelrahman!
April 2019
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Ph.D. Thesis Defense by Ahmed A. Zewail, 2:00PM, April 11, 2019 @ 302 EE East Building.
Title: Secrecy Guarantees in Emerging Networks
CONGRATULATIONS Ahmed!
April 2019
Dr. Min Li, alumnus of WCAN, has joined College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, as a ZJU100 Young Professor in March 2019. Congratulations Min!
Read more on his personal webpage.
Prof. Aylin Yener is named Distinguished Professor, the highest professorial distinction at Penn State.
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Congratulations to Ahmed Zewail and Abdelrahman Ibrahim for being selected to participate in the ITA 2019 Graduation Day.
Prof. Aylin Yener is a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Information Theory Society (IT) class of 2019.
Prof. Aylin Yener is invited to the Workshop on Machine Learning for Network Data.
Prof. Aylin Yener is the vice president of IEEE Information Theory Society in 2019.
Abdelrahman Ibrahim has presented the paper "Benefits of Coded Placement for Networks with Heterogeneous Cache Sizes", in Asilomar 2018.
Congratulations to Prof. Aylin Yener for receiving Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) Outstanding Achievement Award.
Mohamed Nafea has presented the paper "The Caching Broadcast Channel with a Wire and Cache Tapping Adversary of Type II: Multiple Library Files", in Allerton 2018.
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Ph.D. Thesis Defense by Mohamed Nafea, 10:00AM, August 31, 2018 @ 116 EE West Building.
Title: Information Theoretic Security Guarantees Against More Capable Adversaries
CONGRATULATIONS Mohamed!
Aug 2018
Shiyang (Vicky) Leng has presented the paper "A Multi-Leader Stackelberg Game for Two-Hop Systems with Wireless Energy Transfer", in WCNC 2018.
Prof. Aylin Yener is a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) class of 2018.
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Ph.D. Thesis Defense by Burak Varan, 1:20PM, August 29, 2017 @ 302 EE East Building.
Title: Energy and Signal Cooperation in Competitive Wireless Networks with Energy Harvesting
CONGRATULATIONS BURAK!
Ph.D. Thesis Defense by Basak Guler, 1:00PM, August 28, 2017 @ 302 EE East Building.
Title: Information Transmission in Networks with Social and Semantic Constraints
CONGRATULATIONS BASAK! She joined USC as a postdoc.
Prof. Aylin Yener is a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) class of 2017.
Congratulations to Burak Varan on receiving the Dr. Nirmal K. Bose Dissertation Excellence Award (4/12/2017).
April 2017
Congratulations to Ahmed Zewail on the nomination of his paper "Fundamental Limits of Secure Device-to-Device Coded Caching" to the student paper contest in Asilomar 2016.
Watch the video produced by the IEEE Information Theory Society for the one hundredth birthday of Claude Elwood Shannon (April 2016).
Basak Guler was invited to 2016 Heidelberg Laureate Forum (April 2016).
Congratulations to Basak Guler on receiving the Dr. Nirmal K. Bose Dissertation Excellence Award (4/12/2016).
April 2016
Congratulations to Basak Guler on receiving the 2016 TASSA Young Scholars Award (3/21/2016).
Congratulations to Burak Varan on receiving the 2016 AT&T Graduate Fellowship (1/19/2016).
Congratulations to Basak Guler for being invited to 2015 Rising Stars in EECS: An Academic Career Workshop for Women (November 9-10, 2015) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and for receiving the GHC Scholarship Grant to attend this year's Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing (July 2015).
Watch the Women in Information Theory (WITHITS) interview with Prof. Aylin Yener (June 2015).
For other interviews, click here.
Ph.D. Thesis Defense by Kaya Tutuncuoglu, 2:45PM, May 18, 2015 @ 101 EE East Building.
Title: Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks: Transmission Policies and Coding Schemes
CONGRATULATIONS KAYA!
May 2015
Prof. Aylin Yener is elected to serve on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society for the term 2015-2017 (January 2015).
Prof. Aylin Yener is named IEEE Fellow for her contributions to wireless communication theory and wireless information security (December 2014).
Congratulations to Kaya Tutuncuoglu and Prof. Aylin Yener for receiving the Leonard A. Doggett Award for Outstanding Writing in Electrical Engineering, PennState (June 2014).
Congratulations to Kaya Tutuncuoglu and Prof. Aylin Yener for receiving the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications with their paper "Optimum Transmission Policies for Battery Limited Energy Harvesting Nodes," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 11, No. 3, March 2012, pp. 1180-1189 (April 2014).
Congratulations to Prof. Aylin Yener for receiving the 2014 Penn State Engineering Alumni Society Premier Research Award.
IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications Wireless Communications Powered by Energy Harvesting and Wireless Energy Transfer, organized by guest editors Sennur Ulukus, Elza Erkip, Pulkit Grover, Kaibin Huang, Osvaldo Simeone, Aylin Yener, and Michele Zorzi, is accepting submissions until March 1, 2014.
This special issue is dedicated to communication theory, information theory, networking and signal processing aspects of wireless communication networks composed of devices that can harvest energy from nature and transfer energy wirelessly.
Congratulations to Ye Tian on receiving the Melvin P. Bloom Memorial Outstanding Doctoral Research Award (4/18/2013).
1st IEEE GlobalSIP 2013 Symposium on Energy Harvesting and Green Wireless Communications, organized by General Chairs Aylin Yener and Sennur Ulukus will take place in December 2-5, 2013 in Austin, Texas.
The submission deadline for 4-page papers on the subject is June 15, 2013.
Ph.D. Thesis Defense by Ye Tian, 10:00AM, January 30, 2013 @ 101 EE East Building.
Title: Cooperation and Interference for Wireless Networks
CONGRATULATIONS YE!
Ph.D. Thesis Defense by Min Li, 10:00AM, June 4, 2012 @ 101 EE East Building.
Title: Information Theoretic Limits of Multi-User Channels with State
CONGRATULATIONS MIN!
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Congratulations to Kaya Tutuncuoglu on receiving the 2012 AT&T Graduate Fellowship (4/18/2012).
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Congratulations to Ye Tian on receiving the Dr. Nirmal K. Bose Dissertation Excellence Award (4/18/2012).
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M.S. Thesis Defense by Basak Guler, 9:30AM, April 12, 2012 @ 209 EE West Building.
Title: Interference Management for Femtocell Networks
CONGRATULATIONS BASAK!
April 2012
(left to right) Kaya Tutuncuoglu, Prof. Aylin Yener, Ye Tian and Basak Guler
Ph.D. Thesis Defense by Ertugrul Necdet Ciftcioglu, 8:00AM, November 2, 2011 @ 225 EE West Building.
Title: Wireless Relay Networks with Stochastic Arrivals
CONGRATULATIONS ERTUGRUL!
Prof. Aylin Yener and Ye Tian attended the ITMANET meeting held at Stanford, CA in January 2011. [Photos]
January 2011
Third Annual North American School of Information Theory, organized by Dr. Aylin Yener and Dr. Gerhard Kramer, was held Thursday, August 4, to Sunday, August 8, 2010, at University of Southern California.
Congratulations to Xiang He and Prof. Aylin Yener for receiving the Best Paper Award at the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) which was held in CapeTown, South Africa in May 2010. The award-winning paper is titled "A New Outer Bound for the Secrecy Capacity Region of the Gaussian Two-Way Wiretap Channel" and can be found [here].
Ph.D. Thesis Defense by Xiang He, 1:00PM, April 30, 2010 @ 127 EE East Building.
Title: Cooperation and Information Theoretic Security in Wireless Networks
CONGRATULATIONS XIANG!
Congratulations to Xiang He, who was selected to receive the Melvin P. Bloom Memorial Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in Electrical Engineering for the 2009-2010 academic year. [Pictures]
Congratulations to Prof. Aylin Yener for receiving a 2010 Penn State Engineering Alumni Society Outstanding Research Award. [Pictures]
NSRC 6th Industry Day, was held on Oct. 12-14, 2009.
Ph.D. Thesis Defense by Min Chen, 3:00PM, September 11, 2009 @ 223B IST Building
Title: Resource Management for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
CONGRATULATIONS MIN!
Second Annual North American School of Information Theory, organized by Dr. Aylin Yener and Dr. Gerhard Kramer, was held Monday, August 10, to Thursday, August 13, 2009, at Northwestern University.
IEEE ICC 2009, Communications Theory Symposium, Dresden, Germany, June 14-18, 2009, chaired by Dr. Aylin Yener.
NSRC 5th Industry Day, Oct. 7-8, 2008.
First Annual North American School of Information Theory, organized by Dr. Aylin Yener and Dr. Gerhard Kramer, was held June 1-5, 2008 at University Park Campus of Penn State.
IEEE ICC 2008, Symposium on Wireless Communications, Beijing, China, May 19-23, 2008, co-chaired by Dr. Aylin Yener.
Ph.D. Thesis Defense by Ender Tekin, 1:00PM, April 21, 2008 @ 127 EE East
Title: Information Theoretic Secrecy for Some Multiuser Wireless Communication Channels
CONGRATULATIONS ENDER!
NSRC 4th Industry Day, Oct 16, 2007
Ph.D. Thesis Defense by Kyounghwan Lee, 10:00AM, October 10, 2007 @ 215 EE West
Title: Cognitive Hybrid Wireless Relay Networks
CONGRATULATIONS KYOUNGHWAN!
New NSF Cybertrust project and NSF CNS project
M.S. Thesis Defense by Lauren Huie, 1:00PM, July 31, 2007 @ 129 EE East
Title: Joint Temporal Power Scheduling and Estimator Optimization for Sensor Networks
CONGRATULATIONS LAUREN!
New DARPA project: Young Investigator Award for DARPA Grand Challenge for Information Theory for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (ITMANET).
NSRC 3rd Industry Day, Oct 17, 2006
NSRC 2nd Industry Day, Oct 5, 2005
M.S. Thesis Defense by Girish Khandelwal, 9:00AM, July 25, 2005 @ 129 EE East
Title: Efficient Design of Dense and Time Constrained RFID Systems
CONGRATULATIONS GIRISH!
New NSF project , related news item
Symposium on Information Theory (held as part of WirelessCom 2005), Maui, HI, June 13-16, 2005.
Ph.D. Thesis Defense by Changyoon Oh, 10:00AM, May 3, 2005 @ 123 EE East
Title: Resource Allocation Techniques for Performance Improvement of Multiuser Systems
CONGRATULATIONS CHANGYOON!
Ph.D. Thesis Defense by Semih Serbetli, 9:00AM, April 19, 2005 @ IST 201
Title: Efficient Transmit Strategies for Multiuser Multiple Antenna Systems
CONGRATULATIONS SEMIH!
