Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data:

Name: Erhan A. İnce

Date of birth: 18-01-1969

Nationality: Turkish Cypriot

Marital Status: Married

Email:

Education:

Ph.D. (1997) / Electrical & Electronics Engineering in Telecommunications
Bradford University, Bradford – West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK
M.Sc. (1992) / Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, 17837, Cumulative GPA: 3.7/4.0
B.Sc. (1990) / Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, 17837, Cumulative GPA: 3.1/4.0

Funded Research: “A Hybrid Access Control System Making Use of Facial Feature Based Identification”

http://faraday.ee.emu.edu.tr/eaince/fundedresearch.htm

Project Code: EN-05-02-01

Teaching: February 1998 to date.

Undergraduate Courses:

Introduction to Computing (EENG 111)

Introduction to C-Programming (EENG 112)

Signals & Systems (EENG 226)

Communication Systems I (EENG 360)

Digital Signal Processing (EENG 420)

Postgraduate Courses:

Error Control Coding (EE 562)

Information Theory (EE 568)

Research Interests: Indoor/mobile communications,

channel and source coding,

Turbo Codes,

Performance bounds and exact solutions,

Channel modelling and estimation,

Multi-carrier techniques (OFDM),

Robust Watermarking Schemes,

Facial Features Detection and Recognition.

Membership:

1.  Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

a. Communication Society

2.  Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Electrical Engineers

Awards:

1.  Best Poster Presentation Award for the 5th International Symposium on CSDSP, Sheffield, UK (1998)

2.  Commonwealth Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies (1994)

3.  M.Sc. Scholarship from University of Bucknell (1990)

4.  Fullbright Scholarship from USA for BS (1985)

Computer and other skills:

Language / Fluent in Turkish and English.
Elementary knowledge of Greek language.
Music / Play the guitar
Systems / MS-DOS ,UNIX , HP-UX , Windows, Lynix
Prog. Lang. / Proficient with C, HTML, VISUAL BASIC , MATLAB
Unix Packages / SPW, X-Graph, Xfig, LaTeX-2e

Publications

SCI Journals

[1] Erhan A. Ince, Nirmal S. Kambo, Syed A. Ali, “Efficient Expression and Bound for Pairwise Error Probability in Rayleigh Fading Channels, with Application to Union Bounds for Turbo Codes,” IEEE Communications Letters, Vol.9, Issue 1, pp. 25-27, Jan 2005.

[2] Syed A. Ali , Erhan A. Ince, “Closed Form Expression and Improved Bound on Pairwise Error Probability for Performance Analysis of Turbo Codes Over Rician Fading Channels, ” IEEE Communications Letters, Vol.10, Issue 8, pp. 599-601, Aug 2006.

[3] Syed A. Ali , Nirmal S. Kambo, Erhan A. Ince, “Exact Expression and Tight Bound on Pairwise Error Probability for Performance Analysis of Turbo Codes Over Nakagami-m Fading Channels”, IEEE Communications Letters, May 2007.

SCI – Expanded Journals

[1] Erhan AliRiza Ince and Syed Amjad Ali, “An Adept Segmentation Algorithm and its Application to the Extraction of Local Regions Containing Fudicial Points”, in 21st International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS06), LNCS 4263, pp. 553–562, Nov 2006.

Other Refereed Journals

[1] Erhan A. Ince and Syed Amjad Ali, “Rule Based Segmentation and Subject Identification Using Fiducial Features and Subspace Projection Methods”, JCP-Academy Publisher ( under review)

Tubitak Journals

[1] Erhan A. Ince and Syed Amjad Ali, “Turbo Codes: The Issue of Average Union Upper Bound under Imperfect Channel State Information in Rayleigh Fading Channels”, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 189-197, July 2005.

International Conferences

[1] Syed A. Ali and Erhan A. Ince, “Performance Analysis of Turbo Codes over Nakagami-m Fading Channels with Impulsive Noise”, PIMRC2007, (under review)

[2] Erhan A. Ince & Syed A. Ali, “An Adept Segmentation Algorithm and its Application to Extraction of Local Regions Containing Fiducial Points”, The 21st International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 06), Nov 2006.

[3] Syed A. Ali and Erhan A. Ince, “Performance Analysis of Turbo Codes over Rician Fading Channels with Impulsive Noise”, ICT-MICC 2007, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, May 2007.

[4] S. A. Ali & E. A. İnce, “Distribution Free Approximations to Pairwise Error Probability for Memoryless Fading Channels”, 13th International Conference on Telecommunications, May 2006.

[5] Syed A. Ali, Erhan A. Ince, “Pairwise Error Probability Expressions Over Fully Interleaved Nakagami-m Fading Channels and Their Use in Union Bounds for Turbo Codes,” 6th International ITG-Conference on Source and Channel Coding + 4th International Symposium on Turbo Codes, April 2006.

[6] Syed A. Ali, Nirmal Kambo, Erhan A. Ince, “A Simple Moment Based Approximation to Pairwise Error Probability for Memoryless Fading Channels,” 16th International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, June 2005.

[7] E. A. Ince, A. S. Awad, "Iterative Parallel Data Detection Versus Other Established De-Blurring Techniques", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2001.

[8] Erhan A. Ince, A. S. Awad, “Comparison of 2D de-blurring Techniques Used for image reconstruction”, International Symposium on Telecommunications, IST 2001.

[9] Erhan A. Ince, Okan Özkan, “Digitally Monitored Safe System,” The Fifteenth International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, 2000.

[10] Erhan A. Ince, H.Ozkaramanli,S.Omar,M.Baig,A.Bhatti, “Fingerprint Recognition and Client to Server Communications,” Proc. of the Second Inter. Symp. on Mathematical & Computational Applications, 1999.

[11] Erhan A. Ince,Y.J.Guo, S.K.Burton,”M-Algorithm Based receiver complexity for PR-CPM Signals,” Fifth Inter. Symp. on CSDSP, Sheffield, UK,1998.

[12] E. A. Ince,N. Vorizonakis,Y.J.Guo,S.K.Burton, "Breadth-First Sequential Detection of PR-CPM over AWGN and Multipath Channels", Inter. Symp. of Infor. Theory, Ulm, Germany, 1997.

[13] Erhan A. Ince,Y.J. Guo, S.K.Burton, "T-Algorithm Detection of Partial Response Continuous Phase Modulated Signals over Multipath Channels" Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Helsinki, Finland, 1997.

[14] H. El-Sharkaway, Erhan Ince, "DSP96002 wideband coder for ISDN applications," Proc. of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, pp.51-55, 1992.

National Conferences

[1] Erhan A. İnce, Fahri Asvaroglu, “RSC Robust Hybrid Watermarking Technique,” Proc. of the IEEE 14th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, pp. 1-4, April 2006.

[2] Erhan A. İnce, Sezin Kaymak, Turgay Çelik, “A hybrid technique for facial feature detection,” Proc. of the IEEE 13th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, pp. 396-399, May 2005.

[3] Erhan A. İnce, Syed Amjad Ali, “Kanal Güvenilirlik Bilgisinin Eşli Hata Olasılığı İfadesi ve Turbo Kodların Sönümlemeli Kanallar Üzerindeki Ortalama Üstel Sınır Hesaplamalarındaki Etkisi”, SİU 2003.

[4] Erhan A. İnce, Ali S. Awad “Bulanık ve TBGG’ye Maruz Kalmış İkili İmgeler İçin Yüksek Başarımlı Yeni Bir Onarım Tekniği,” Sinyal İşleme ve Uygulamaları Kurultayı, 2002.

[5] Erhan A. İnce, Syed A.Ali “Altın Göreceli Asal Serpiştirici ve Kısa Çerçeveler Kullanan Turbo Kodların Toplanır Beyaz Gauss Gürültülü ve Düz Sönümlemeli Bağımsız Rayleigh Kanalları Üzerindeki Başarımı,” Sinyal İşleme ve Uygulamaları Kurultayı, 2002.

[6] Erhan A. İnce, “Karesel Hata Ölçütü ve Seçilmiş bir eşik değerine bağlı tek-boyutlu

netleştirme yöntemi,” Sinyal İşleme ve Uygulamaları Kurultayı, 2001.

[7] Erhan A. İnce, “Çift eşik değerli görüntü netleştirme yöntemi,” Sinyal İşleme ve Uygulamaları Kurultayı, 2001.

Other Publications

[1] Erhan A. Ince, Coskun Aksel, Cafer Kizilors, “ Magnetic-Card Operated Auto Park Barrier System Supported by Micro Controller Based Infrared Module,” EMO Bilim, Cilt:1-Sayi:1- August 2001.

Post Graduate Thesis Supervised

MS Thesis

[1] Awad A.S., “A Comparison Between Previously Known and Two Novel Image Restoration Algorithms”, EMU, 2001. (Completed 07/2001)

[2] Ali S.A., “Performance Analysis of Turbo Codes Over AWGN and Rayleigh Channels Using Different Interleavers”, EMU, 2001. (Completed 10/2001)

[3] Kaymak S., “Enhanced Principal Component Analysis Recognition Performance”, EMU, 2004. (Completed 09/2004)

[4] Asvaroglu F., “Compression and Affine Transforms Resilient Watermarking”, EMU, 2006. (Completed 02/2006)

PhD Thesis

[1] Ali S. A., “Performance Analysis of Turbo Codes via Simulation and Analytical Means over Fading Channels with Additive White Gaussian and Impulsive Noise”, EMU. (Completed 02/2007)

Departmental and/or Professional Service:

Departmental

1.  Undergraduate Students Advisor

2.  Supervisor for postgraduate students

3.  Chairman of the Laboratory Committee

4.  ABET Committee member

5.  Computers Committee member

6.  EUA Quality Group Member

Professional Activities

A.  Reviewer for

SIU,

EUSIPCO,

IEEE-CL,

TCAS-I,

IEEE Trans. On Comms.

ISCIS06

ICC06.

B.  Member of Program Committee for “Computer Vision Graphics and Intelligence” track of 22nd International Symposium onComputer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 07).

C.  Evaluator for two Ministry of National Education and Culture (MEKB) Projects.