Research Interests

Dr. Yilmaz's research is in the general areas of systems, with particular emphasis on communications and signal processing, including:

    • Information theory

    • Probability, Random Variables and Multivariate Statistical Data Analysis

    • Wireless communications,

        • Milimeter-Wave (mmWave) Communications

        • Free space optical (FSO) communications

        • Visible light communications (VLC)

        • Underwater Acoustic Communications

  • Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

  • Ad-hoc / Sensor Networks

  • Channel Coding

      • Space-time / Network Coding

      • Turbo Codes, Concatenated Coding / Modulation

      • Joint Source-Channel Coding

  • High-Performance Computing

      • Network Cloud/Edge Computations

      • Distributed Detection / Estimation


Programming & Computation Theory

Dr. Yilmaz has more than 15-year extensive software design and programming experience with C, C++, Java, and so on. He is fascinated by the challenges of constructing large, complex software systems – software engineering. His research in software programming comprises the following topics,

        • Discrete event system (DES) simulation,

              • Re-implementation of NS3 in Java [GitHub]

        • BigData network simulation and best-performance analysis

        • Software quality metrics (SQM),

        • The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure,

        • Programming language design / implementation / translation,

              • Dr. Yilmaz is the inventor of Alpharabius programming language.

        • Scientific numerical computations (BLAS / LAPACK),

              • Implementation of BLAS in Java [GitHub]

  • Infrastructure for ubiquitous computing

WCC Laboratory

The WCC Lab, directed by Dr. Ferkan Yilmaz, was founded in the Department of Computer Engineering at Yildiz Technical University and conducts highly active theoretical and experimental research on the design of next-generation wireless communication systems, with a focus on modeling, design, optimization, performance analysis, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Prospective Students

We are always looking for highly motivated students who are interested in achieving cutting-edge research in communications and computations with state-of-art applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

If you are interested in joining our group for graduate-level research and studies, please contact us!