1. Koç University – ECE Graduate Program Collaborative Research: Vision and Models A. Murat Tekalp

2. Koç University – ECE Graduate Program Introduction “Intellectual property” provides competitive edge in the global economy Economic impact of academic research –Number of patents/faculty –Royalty income/faculty

3. Koç University – ECE Graduate Program Research Mission Faculty-industry collaboration towards creating “intellectual property” and economic impact Human resource training at BS, MS and PhD levels –who are well-prepared for original research and development –who understand the importance of “intellectual property”

4. Koç University – ECE Graduate Program Facts Faculty members in Electrical and Computer Engineering have –55 patents granted –44 patent applications pending have actively participated in International standards groups –ISO MPEG –ITU (International Telecommunications Union) –IETF (Internet Engineering Taskforce) –3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) are full partners in three European Community FP6 projects –SIMILAR –3DTV –NEMO

5. Koç University – ECE Graduate Program SIMILAR The European taskforce creating human-machine interfaces SIMILAR to human-human communication Instrument: Network of Excellence 30 European Institutions Coordinator: Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium Koç team: A. Murat Tekalp, Engin Erzin, Yucel Yemez Total Budget: 6.1 Milion Euro (266.630 Euro for Koc) Video processing, computer vision, speech processing, multi-modal information fusion

6. Koç University – ECE Graduate Program 3DTV Integrated 3-D Television- Capture, Transmission and Display Instrument: Network of Excellence 20 European Universities and Institutions Coordinator: Bilkent University, Turkey Koc Team: Reha Civanlar, A. Murat Tekalp, Yucel Yemez, Hakan Urey Total Budget: 6.3 Milion Euro Total (282.510 Euro for Koc) Video processing and compression, computer graphics, communication networks, optics and 3-D displays

7. Koç University – ECE Graduate Program NEMO NEMO - Network of Excellence in Micro-Optics Instrument: Network of Excellence Coordinator: Vrije University, Belgium Koc team: Hakan Urey, Alphan Sennaroglu, Ipek Basdogan, Ali Serpenguzel Total Budget: 6.4 Milion Euro (200,000 Euro for Koç) Micro-optics technologies, photonics, nanoelectronics. Modeling, test and measurements, prototype production

8. Koç University – ECE Graduate Program Electromagnetic actuator using electroplated magnetic materials Microvision, USAHakan Urey2003-2005$100.000 Distinguished Young Scientist AwardTUBAAlper Demir2003-2006$25.000 Spoken Language Interaction in Telecommunication TÜBİTAK Cost 278 Engin Erzin and Enis Çetin (with Sabancı University) 2001-2004$16.500 Spectroscopic Investigation of Infrared Laser Materials TÜBİTAK Alphan Sennaroğlu, Mehmet Somer and Adnan Kurt 2001-2004$20.000 Design and Traffic Analysis of Multicast Protocols for Multiservice Networks TÜBİTAK Cost 279 Öznur Özkasap and Mine Çağlar 2003-2005$11.107 Wireless Packet Data Communication System Supporting Multicast Services TÜBİTAK Oğuz Sunay and Öznur Özkasap 2002-2004$23.899 Multi Stage & Multi Model Signal Processing for Person Identification TÜBİTAK Murat Tekalp, Yücel Yemez and Engin Erzin 2002-2004$12.716 Other Funded Research Projects

9. Koç University – ECE Graduate Program Research Areas Multimedia Processing Reha Civanlar, Murat Tekalp, Engin Erzin, Yücel Yemez Wireless Communications Oğuz Sunay Antenna Design İrşadi Aksun Optics and MEMS Hakan Ürey, Alphan Sennaroğlu Bioinformatics and Parallel Processing Atilla Gürsoy, Deniz Yüret Verification and Software Engineering Alper Demir, Serdar Taşıran, Networking and Embedded Systems Reha Civanlar, Öznur Özkasap, A. Akkas

10. Koç University – ECE Graduate Program What can we do together? Funded joint research projects –Joint project definition and direction –Obtain joint patents –Know BS, MS and PhD students more closely to hire them after graduation Write joint grant applications for future European calls Technology consulting International contacts from Networks of Excellences

11. Koç University – ECE Graduate Program A Collaboration Model with Grad Students Graduate students 25 MS students in the ECE MS program 3 PhD students in the EE and CE programs 20 new MS and PhD students will be hired this year A research triplet consists of A faculty advisor A corporate co-advisor An MS or PhD student

12. Koç University – ECE Graduate Program A Collaboration Model with Undergrad Students Independent Project (Junior year, second semester) Summer Practice (Staj) (Summer after the junior year) Senior Design Project I (Senior year, first semester) Senior Design Project II (Senior year, second semester)