Curriculum Vitae

ERDAL ORUKLU

Education

B.S. Electronics and Communications Engineering, Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey, 1995

M.S. Electrical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey 1999.

Thesis: “Implementation of a Low Bit-Rate Video Codec” Advisor: A. Morgul

Ph.D. Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 2005.

Thesis: “Reconfigurable Signal Processing Architectures for Ultrasonic Imaging” Advisor: J. Saniie

Professional Experience

1999-2000 System and Network Administrator, Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Department, Illinois Institute of Technology.

2000-2005 Teaching Assistant, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department,

Illinois Institute of Technology.

2006-2013 Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department,

Illinois Institute of Technology.

20013- Present Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department,

Illinois Institute of Technology.

Honors and Awards

•Best Paper Award, Third Place, IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Seattle, 2010.
•Best Paper Award, IEEE International Electro-Information Technology Conference, Windsor, Canada, 2009.
•Award of Distinction, 7th International World Embedded Software Contest, Seoul, Korea, 2009.
•Nominated for the “Armour College Excellence in Teaching Award 2011” by the ECE department.
•Nominated for the “Armour College Excellence in Teaching Award 2010” by the ECE department.
•Recognized as “EB-1B Outstanding Professor or Researcher” while obtaining U.S. permanent residency, 2010.
•Invited lecturer for IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium 2009-2011.
•Invited guest editor for a special issue in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control; and Advances in Acoustics and Vibration.
•Invited guest editor for a special issue in Advances in Acoustics and Vibration.
•Graduate student IIT research scholarship award 2007-2008 (Joshua Weber).
•Graduate student IIT research scholarship award 2008-2009 (Jeffrey Rebacz).
•Best M.S. Student Research Poster Award, 2008, ECE Department, Illinois Institute of Technology (Joshua Weber).
•Best M.S. Student Research Poster Award, 2009, ECE Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, (Apurva Oka).
•Best Ph.D. Student Research Poster Award, 2009, ECE Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, (Christophe Desmouliers).
•Ph.D. Student Research Award (Second Best), IIT Research Day, 2009, Illinois Institute of Technology (Semih Aslan).
•Student travel support for IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium 2012

Professional Activities

Professional Affiliations:

•Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (Member since 2000, Senior Member since 2009).

o Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society member

o Circuits and Systems Society member

•Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society Member and Faculty advisor,

Technical Society Activities

Editorial Positions:

•Guest editor for IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control in the upcoming Special Issue on Novel Embedded Systems for Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing,

http://www.ieee-uffc.org/main/publications/tr/toc.asp?vol=59&iss=07

(22 papers published in this special issue)

•Guest editor for Advances in Acoustics and Vibration in the upcoming Special Issue Advances in Acoustic Sensing, Imaging and Signal Processing,

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/aav/si/aas/

(9 papers published in this special issue)

Technical Society Service:

•Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member for IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium since 2011,
•Local Arrangements Chair and Organizing Committee Member for IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium to be held in Chicago, Illinois 2014,
•Program committee member, IEEE International Conference of Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC) 2010, 2011, 2012 Conferences,
•Session chair, IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012
•Session chair, IEEE Electro-Information Technology EIT Conference 2006, 2012
•Host and speaker for ACM Chicago Chapter Meeting, 2006.

Reviewer for Journals, Conferences, and Books:

Served as reviewer for the following:

Journals (alphabetical order)

1.Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing,
2.Computers & Electrical Engineering,
3.Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience,
4.Elsevier, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine,
5.Elsevier, Integration, the VLSI Journal,
6.IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I,
7.IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II,
8.IEEE Transactions on Computers,
9.IEEE Transactions on Education,
10. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,
11. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
12.IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
13.IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control,
14.IEEE Transactions on VLSI,
15.Journal of Medical Systems

Conferences

1.IEEE/ACM GLSVLSI symposium,

2.IEEE Electro-Information Technology (EIT) Conference,

3.IEEE International Conference on Networks, Sensing and Control (ICNSC) Conference,

4.IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) Conference,

5.IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) Conference,

Textbooks

1. Addison-Wesley,

2.Oxford University Press

Funding for Research and Education

National Science Foundation (NSF), “EARS: Providing Predictable Service and Spectrum Access with Real-Time Decision in Cognitive Multihop Wireless Networks”, 10/15/12-09/30/2015, $498,122. Role: Co-PI.

National Science Foundation (NSF), “Remote Access Environments for Undergraduate Computer Engineering Laboratories,” 01/01/10‑12/31/12, $149,784. Role: Co-P.I.

Department of Energy (DOE), “(ARRA) A World - Class Smart Grid Education and Workforce Training Center” 08/16/10‑08/15/13, $4,999,999. Role: Co-P.I.

Wagner Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER), “Energy Sustainable Wireless Acoustic Emission Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring”, 01/01/2010-12/31/2010, $24,992. Role: Co-P.I.

IIT Educational and Research Initiative Fund (ERIF) grant, “Real-Time Detection and Compression Architectures for Ultrasonic Imaging,” 01/01/07‑12/31/07, $25,000. Role: P.I.

IIT ERIF grant, “Structural Health Monitoring and Damage Detection of Existing Structures with Unknown Input and Limited Responses”, 01/01/2011 – 12/31/2011, $25,000. Role: Co- P.I.

University Service

2007-2008 Member, ECE Department ABET Committee,

2008-2010 Member ECE Department Undergraduate Program Committee

2009-2010 Member, Advisory Committee for Graduate Admissions, IIT,

2010-2012 Member, ECE Department Laboratory Planning Committee,

2008-2012 Camras Interviews, Presentation and Camras evaluation,

2008-2012 Graduate advising at open house events,

2008-2012 ECE Department representative for Open House events at Rice Campus,

2006-2012 Discover IIT day and Open House events for prospective undergraduate students;

ECE Department Lab tours and presentations,

2007-2012 Eta Kappa Nu Faculty Advisor,

2008-2012 ECE 100 Guest Lecturer

Educational Activities

Course and Curriculum Development

Courses Taught:

Fall 2005 - ECE 429 - Introduction to VLSI

Fall 2005 - ECE 485 - Computer Organization and Design

Spring 2006 - ECE 429 - Introduction to VLSI

Spring 2006 - ECE 583 - High Speed Computer Arithmetic

Fall 2006 - ECE 587 - Hardware/Software Codesign

Spring 2007 - ECE 584 - VLSI Architectures for Signal Process. and Comm.

Spring 2008 - ECE 529 - Advanced VLSI Design

Spring 2008 - ECE 743 - Signal and Data Compression

Fall 2008 - ECE 583 - High Speed Computer Arithmetic

Spring 2009 - ECE 529 - Advanced VLSI Design

Spring 2009 - ECE 743 - Signal and Data Compression

Spring 2009 - ECE 744 - Embedded Digital Sys. for Time-Freq. Distrib., Signal Model.,

Fall 2009 - ECE 584 - VLSI Architectures for Signal Process. and Comm.,

Fall 2009 - ECE 742 - Digital System-On-Chip Design

Spring 2010 - ECE 529 - Advanced VLSI Design

Spring 2010 - ECE 743 - Signal and Data Compression

Spring 2010 - ECE 744 - Embedded Digital Sys. for Time-Freq. Distrib., Signal Model.,

Spring 2011 - ECE 529 - Advanced VLSI Design

Fall 2011 - ECE 584 - VLSI Architectures for Signal Process. and Comm.

Spring 2012 - ECE 429 - Introduction to VLSI

Spring 2012 - ECE 529 - Advanced VLSI Design

New Courses Developed:

ECE 529 - Advanced VLSI Design

This course teaches complex and high performance contemporary CMOS systems from system level to circuit level. Latest research articles from leading journals are used as the reference material and advanced techniques are presented. Students are exposed to new VLSI CAD tools and design flows for ultra low-power circuits with the corresponding assignments/projects.

ECE 584 - VLSI Architectures for Signal Processing and Communication

This course aims to convey knowledge of advanced concepts in VLSI signal processing. Emphasis is on the architectural research, design and optimization of signal processing systems used in telecommunications, compression, encryption and coding applications. Therefore, this course focuses on "Systems-on-a-Chip" designs for state-of-the-art field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) or application specific integrated circuits (ASIC). The primary topics will be the choice of the architecture for various signal processing applications and their performance, area and energy efficiencies.

ECE 742 - Digital System-On-Chip Design

The purpose of this course is to provide an understanding of contemporary topics in Systems-on-Chip design. Students learn programmable devices and the design flow for FPGAs. Students are also exposed to VHDL programming. Several hardware implementations using advanced FPGA development tools will be discussed with demonstrations and tutorials.

ECE 743 - Signal and Data Compression

This course provides a unique combination of data compression and hardware/software realization in embedded computing systems. Topics include fundamentals of random signal processing and information theory, compression and decompression processes, lossy and lossless compression methods, compression standards for video and audio, modeling and signal parameter estimation, transform techniques including FFT, DCT, and DWT. Hardware realizations of compression algorithms.

ECE 744 - Embedded Digital Systems for Time-Frequency Distribution, Signal Modeling, and Estimation

The purpose of this course is to provide a basic understanding of contemporary Time-Frequency Distribution, Signal Modeling and Estimation methods. This course provides a unique combination of time-frequency analysis, and hardware/software realization in embedded computing systems. Key topics include introduction and the need for time-frequency analysis, instantaneous frequency and the complex signals, densities and characteristic functions, short-time Fourier transform, Gabor transform, Wigner distribution, Hilbert transform, wavelet transform, cosine transform, chirplet signal decomposition, hardware/software codesign and realizations of time-frequency distributions algorithms.

Course revision:

ECE 242 Digital Computers and Computing

The MIPS architecture represents the fundamental design principles of all contemporary RISC architectures. The new course topics cover the basics of MIPS architecture, including the programming model, addressing modes, register file, instruction set, exception handling, pipelining concepts and the MIPS pipeline. Students learn to use the SPIM assembler to write and simulate MIPS assembly code examples

ECE 446 Advanced Logic Design Laboratory

The new laboratory experiments introduce VHDL hardware description language to the students. Lab experiments now utilize Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices and students learn how to design hardware using FPGA boards. Experiments include implementation of serial communications, A/D and D/A conversion and computer arithmetic functions.

Dissertations Supervised

Ph.D. Dissertation:

1.Joshua Weber, now with Microsoft Research, Redmond.

Graduation Date: May 2012,

Thesis Title: “Polymorphic Network-On-Chip Datapath Architecture for Reconfigurable Computing Machines”

2.Christophe Desmouliers, now with VITEC Multimedia, France.

Graduation Date: May 2010,

Thesis Title: “Multicore Processing Engines for Machine Vision, Image Analysis and Data Compression”

3.Xin Xiao,now with ZTE Corporation, New Jersey.

Graduation Date: May 2010,

Thesis title: “Efficient FFT Engines for Embedded Signal Processing and Communication Applications”

4.Vibhuti Dave, Assistant Professor, at Colorado School of Mining

Graduation Date: May 2007,

Thesis title: “High Speed Multi-Operand Addition Utilizing Flag Bits”

As Co-Adviser:

5.Vijay Anand (co-advisee), Assistant Professor at Southeast Missouri State University.

Graduation Date: July 2011,

Thesis Title: “Security Policy Management, Threat Alleviation and Secure Digital Commercial Services for Embedded Computing Systems”.

6.Sungjoon Yoon (Co-advisee), now with Honeywell, Lincolnshire.

Graduation Date: May 2010,

Thesis title: “Distributed Neural Network Processing Engines for Frequency-Diverse Ultrasonic Target Detection”

7.Semih Aslan (Co-advisee), Assistant Professor at Texas State University.

Graduation Date: May 2010,

Thesis Title: “Reconfigurable Processing Engines for Area and Power Efficient Arithmetic and Matrix Operations”

8.Marcos Turqueti (Co-advisee), now with Creative Electron, Inc., San Diego.

Graduation Date:May 2010,

Thesis Title: “Acoustic MEMS Array Embedded in a Scalable Real-Time Data Acquisition and Signal Processing Platform”

Master of Science Theses:

1.Sheldon Waite,

Graduation Date: August 2012,

Thesis Title: “Real-Time Traffic Sign Recognition with Reconfigurable Hardware”.

2.Varsha Rao,

Graduation Date: August 2012,

Thesis Title: “Low Power Methodologies Using Unified Power Format (UPF)”.

3.Ashwitha Krishna Kumar,

Graduation Date: August 2012,

Thesis Title: “Decimal Multiplication Architecture for FPGA Implementation”.

4.Dhawal S. Wazalwar,

Graduation Date: December 2011,

Thesis Title: “Robust License Plate Recognition in Complex Scenes”

5.Richard Hanley (Co-advisee)

Graduation Date:August 2011,

Thesis title: “Remote education in the laboratory courses”

6.Vitaliy Kunin (Co-advisee)

Graduation Date: December 2010,

Thesis title: “Sound and Ultrasound Source Direction of Arrival Estimation and Localization”

7.Jeffrey Rebacz,

Graduation Date: May 2010,

Thesis title: “Fast signed-digit decimal addition”

8.Namitha Jayakumar

Graduation Date:December 2008,

Thesis title: “Ultrasonic Signal Analysis Using Optimal Wavelet Tree Decomposition Structure and Adaptive Thresholding”

9.Joshua Weber,

Graduation Date: May 2008,

Thesis title: “Configurable Hardware Architecture for Frequency Diverse Target Detection”

10.David Hentrich,

Graduation Date: December 2007,

Thesis title: “Design and Implementation of High Speed, Low Power Static Random Access Memory (SRAM)”

11.Sonali Maharishi,

Graduation Date: December 2007,

Thesis title: “Analysis of Ultrasonic 3-D Compression Using Non-Uniform, Separable Wavelet Transform”

12.Hojat Parta (Co-advisee)

Graduation Date:May 2007,

Thesis title: “Hardware Realization of a Real-Time Reconfigurable Ultrasonic Target Detection System”

13.Romaine Perot,

Graduation Date:August 2006,

Thesis title: “Efficient Hardware Realization of Large Size Discrete Cosine Transform”

14.Nikhil Thomas (Co-advisee),

Graduation Date: December 2005,

Thesis Title: “Accurate Function Approximation Using the CORDIC Algorithm and Its Applications”

Other Student Research Projects Supervised

ECE 597 - Special Problems (Non-Thesis) Projects:

2011:

1.Title: Virtual Fitting Room

Student Name: Anne Chadoeuf