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!