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Education: I received my Ph.D in February 2011 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. Previously, I had received my M.S. and B.S. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, TURKEY, in August 2006 and June 2004 respectively.
Experience: Dr. Zeydan worked as an R&D engineer at Avea Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S. , a mobile operator in Turkey, between August 2011 and April 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey. He was with Turk Telekomunikasyon A.S from April 2016 to November 2018 working as a Senior R&D Engineer in Istanbul, Turkey. He was also a part-time instructor at Electrical and Electronics Engineering department of Ozyegin University Istanbul, Turkey from January 2015 to June 2018. Since November 2018, he has joined Communication Networks Division of the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) and is a Senior Researcher now at Services as Networks (SaS) Research Unit.
Research Activities: His research areas include applications of data engineering/science for telecommunication networks and flexible mobile networks. In the past, he has been involved in research projects concerning diverse topics including user mobility characterization in wireless networks, game theory in wireless networks, self-organization for mobile networks, big data enabled caching solutions at mobile edge, indoor localization of mobile users and mobility management solutions.
Scientific Projects: He has been involved in many European and national level projects in collaborations with various industries and universities across Europe and Turkey. Some of these are:
Services: He is serving as a peer reviewer for IEEE, Springer, Wiley and Elsevier journals and technical program committee member for several IEEE conferences (ICC, WCNC, GLOBECOM, PIMRC, etc). He has been involved in many teaching activities for undergraduate/graduate level students at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Ozyegin University including courses such as Wireless Networks, Recent Advances in Networking, Wireless Communications, Introduction to Digital Communications and Wireless Communications Engineering Technologies. Dr Zeydan has also given several tutorials including on “Big Data for Networking: Objectives, Challenges and Applications”, at IEEE NOMS 2016, April. 2020, “Recent Advances in Data Engineering for Networking”, in IEEE CNSM 2022 (November 2022), NoF 2022 (October 2022), NOMS 2023 (May 2023), “The Role of Data Engineering in Network Automation”, in IEEE HPSR 2023 (July 2023), WF-IoT 2023 (October 2023), “Network Management and Orchestration with Data Engineering: A Practical Guide”, in ACM HPDC 2023 (June 2024), “Data Engineering in Telecommunications: An Emergent Topic in Network Management and Orchestration”, in IEEE Meditcom 2024 (July 2024). Awards: He received a Best Paper Award from the Network of Future Conference on November 2017, Best Fast Track Paper from IEEE NFV-SDN 2020 conference on November 2020, Best Demo Award in IEEE SECON 2021 conference on May 2021 as co-author and Exemplary Reviewer for IEEE Communications Letters Award in 2011. He earned IEEE Wireless Communication Professional Certificate (WCP), IEEE WCET®, (June 2017- May 2020). He is also Senior Member of IEEE since April 2020 (SM’20). Publications: He is co-author of over 150+ papers in international journals and conferences and 12 patents (11 patents at Turkish Patent Institute and 1 PCT) granted: ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3329-0588 Google Scholar:
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