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MELIKE EROL-KANTARCI, PhD, P. Eng., SMIEEE,
SM-ACM Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) on AI-Enabled
Next-Generation Wireless Networks and Full Professor School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Ottawa and
Chief Cloud RAN AI\ML Data Scientist at Ericsson |
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Research Interests: ·
AI-enabled
wireless networks · 5G, 6G, ORAN ·
Smart grid and
electric vehicles ·
Wireless sensor
networks ·
Cybersecurity ·
Wireless energy
transfer ·
Underwater
sensor networks ·
Localization Mailing Address: 800 King Edward Avenue Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5 Office:
SITE 5029 Voice: 613 562-5800
ext. 6693 |
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Teaching CEG 4186 Wireless and Mobile Networks
(Winter2021-2017) CSI5140 AI-Enabled Networks (Fall
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News
Coverage
Future
6G wireless network technology could extend reality (Fulcrum Interview) Designing
the future of wireless communication Research
Perspectives of uOttawa (2020) CBC Radio - Quirks
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I'm always looking for highly motivated graduate students who
are interested in pursuing research in wireless communications, machine
learning, autonomous systems and smart grid! Prospective students should send
me an email with their CV including their interest areas and academic
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Short Bio Dr.
Melike Erol-Kantarci is Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in AI-Enabled
Next-Generation Wireless Networks and Full Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science at the University of Ottawa,
ON, Canada. She is also Chief Cloud RAN AI\ML Data Scientist at Ericsson. She
is the founding director of the Networked
Systems and Communications Research (NETCORE) laboratory. She is a Faculty Affiliate at the Vector
Institute and the Institute
for Science, Society and Policy. She is also a courtesy faculty at
the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at Clarkson
University, Potsdam, NY. Dr. Erol-Kantarci is an influential
researcher with more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, citations over 7500
and h-index of 42 (Google
Profile). She is a Distinguished
Lecturer for the IEEE Communications Society, appointed for the term of
2021-2022. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the N2Women:
Stars in Networking and Communications. She is a sought-after speaker and
has delivered 70+ keynotes plenary talks, tutorials and panels around the
globe. She is the co-editor of three books “Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
in Smart Cities” by CRC (2020) “Transportation and Power Grid in Smart
Cities: Communication Networks and Services” by Wiley Press (2018) and “Smart
Grid: Networking, Data Management, and Business Models” by CRC Press (2016).
Her articles have been listed many times among the top cited and top accessed
papers on IEEE and Elsevier databases. She has received two best paper awards
at IEEE ICC 2023. Dr. Erol-Kantarci has received close to $10M funding from Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), National Science
Foundation (NSF), Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE), MITACS grants and
industry grants. She has received the 2020 Distinguished Service Award of the
IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Green Communications and
Computing. Her article “Energy-Efficient Information and Communication
Infrastructures in the Smart Grid: A Survey on Interactions and Open Issues”
received the 2017
IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Award. The award is given each
year to one outstanding tutorial paper published in any Communications Society
magazine or journal in the previous 5 calendar years. This article is also
selected for IEEE
ComSoc Best Readings on Green Communications.
She is the co-author of the article Wireless
Sensor Networks for Cost-Efficient Residential Energy Management in the Smart
Grid which is selected to IEEE
ComSoc Best Readings on Smart Grid Communications.
Dr. Erol-Kantarci is the Specialty Chief Editor for the Smart Grid
Communications Section of the journal “Frontiers in Communications and
Networking”. She is on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE
Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking and IEEE Networking
Letters. She is a senior member of the IEEE and the ACM. Prior
to joining University of Ottawa, Dr. Melike Erol-Kantarci was a tenure-track
assistant professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at Clarkson University. Before that she was the coordinator of the Smart Grid
Communications Lab and a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Canada. She received
the Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Engineering in 2009 and 2004 from
Istanbul Technical University. During her Ph.D. studies, she was a Fulbright
visiting researcher at the Computer Science Department of the University of
California Los Angeles (UCLA). She conducted research on underwater sensor
networks. Her PhD thesis study is supervised by Professor Sema Oktug from
Istanbul Technical University and Professor Mario Gerla
from UCLA. She received the B.Sc. degree from the Department of Control and
Computer Engineering of the Istanbul Technical University. Dr. Erol-Kantarci is the Vice-Chair for IEEE ComSoc
emerging technologies initiative on Machine Learning for Communications,
Chair of the Special Interest Group (SIG) on Machine Learning-Enabled
Communication Software and the Chair of SIG on Green Smart Grid
Communications. She
was the vice-chair for IEEE Ottawa Section Women in Engineering (WIE) between
2012 and 2014. She has been a general co-chair, TPC co-chair and has held
other leading roles for many international conferences including track-chair
roles in Globecom, CCNC, VTC, PIMRC and SmartGridComm.
Her main research interests are
AI-enabled wireless networks, 5G and 6G, O-RAN, smart grid and electric
vehicles, cyber-security, wireless sensor networks, wireless energy transfer,
underwater sensor networks, mobility modeling and localization. |
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