Category: News

E. Ak, B. Canberk, V. Sharma, O.A. Dobre, and T.Q. Duong received the Best Paper Award at the 20th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) with their conference paper titled ‘What-if Analysis Framework for Digital Twins in 6G Wireless Network Management’, May 2024. link Read more

B. Canberk served as a Panelist for project evaluations in Mitacs Accelerate Canada, May 2024. Read more

B. Canberk gave an invited talk titled ‘Real-Time Digital Twin System in 6G Era’ at Koc University & Is Bank Artificial Intelligence Center, Turkey, February 2024. Read more

K. Duran has received the Best Postgraduate Research Paper Award of 2023 from Edinburgh Napier University for her recent study ‘Digital Twin Enriched Green Topology Discovery for Next Generation Core Networks’ published in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, February 2024. Read more

B. Canberk served as an External Panel Member for project evaluations in the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, January 2024. Read more

B. Canberk served as a Panelist in Georgia I2Q – Innovation, Inclusion and Quality Competitive Innovation Fund (CIF), January 2024. Read more

B. Canberk is the Digital Twin Track TPC Co-Chair of the IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (IEEE WF-IoT), 2024. Read more

B. Canberk is the Edge/Cloud Computing and Networking Track TPC Co-Chair of the IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC), 2024. Read more

B. Canberk gave a Digital Twin Expert Talk at ACCIONA, Spain, December 2023. link Read more

L.V. Cakir, K. Duran, Y. Yigit, E. Ak, B. Canberk received the 2023 Honorary Mention Award with their work ‘Sustainable and Breathable Buildings: Proof of Concept Digital Twin for Improved Indoor Air Quality and Energy-Efficient Ventilation’ in the IEEE Communications Society Student Competition on the Communications Technology Changing the World, November 2023. link Read more

Our workshop titled ‘Workshop on Cybersecurity of Critical National Infrastructures (CCNI)’ is accepted to the 25th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile, and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM), Perth, Australia, 4 – 7 June 2024. link Read more

Our tutorial titled ‘Digital Twins for 6G Communications and Networking’ is accepted to the IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM) to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 4 – 8 December 2023. link Read more

T. Bilen has received Serhat Ozyar Young Scientist of the Year Honorary Award for her thesis titled ‘Artificial Intelligence-based and Digital Twin-enabled Aeronautical Ad-Hoc Network Management’. link Read more

T. Bilen received the Most Successful Doctoral Thesis Award from Istanbul Technical University for her thesis titled ‘Artificial Intelligence-based and Digital Twin-enabled Aeronautical Ad-Hoc Network Management’. link Read more

B. Canberk is the General Co-Chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (IEEE CAMAD), 2023. Read more

B. Canberk gave a podcast about ‘AI, Internet of Things and Digital Twins’ at Smartlex, August 2023. link Read more

B. Canberk gave a keynote speech about ‘6G-enabled Real-Time Digital Twin Models’ at the IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (IEEE BlackSeaCom), Istanbul, Turkey, 4 – 8 July 2023. link Read more

Our tutorial titled ‘Digital Twins for 6G Communications and Networking’ has been accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC), Rome, Italy, 28 May – 01 June 2023. link Read more

B. Canberk gave a speech titled ‘Digital Twin Approaches for Communication and CyberSecurity’ at the 6th International Conference on Big Data in Cybersecurity, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, May 2023. link Read more

B. Canberk received 2022 Faculty Best Performance Award, Istanbul Technical University, May 2023. Read more

T. Bilen received PhD Science Award from the Turkish Academy of Sciences with her PhD thesis titled ‘Artificial Intelligence-based and Digital Twin-enabled Aeronautical Ad-Hoc Network Management’. link Read more

Our tutorial titled ‘Digital Twins for Communications and Networking in 6G’ has been accepted to the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 26 – 29 March 2023. link. Read more

B. Canberk gave an invited talk titled ‘Digital Twin Networks for Future 6G Deployments’ at Turkish Telekom, Turkey, March 2023. Read more

B. Canberk gave an invited talk titled ‘A new frontier in Energy Governance: Digital Twin Enabled Sustainable Energy Management’ at Uniper Energy Germany, March 2023. Read more

B. Canberk gave an invited talk titled ‘Digital Twins: Infrastructure, Cybersecurity & Digital Innovation’ at CyberScotland Week, UK, March 2023. Read more

B. Canberk gave an invited talk titled ‘Digital Twins in the 6G Era: The Real-Time Connected Intelligence’ at CyberScotland Week, UK, March 2023. Read more

E. Ak received the 2022 ITU Assistant Faculty Members Outstanding Achievement Award in ‘Research-Teaching’, January 2023. link photo Read more

B. Canberk gave an invited lecture about Signals & Systems for Next Generation Communication at The ECE Department, Aarhus University, Denmark, December 2022. photo Read more

B. Canberk gave an invited talk about AI-enforced Digital Twin Applications for Cyber Security Use Cases at the National Cyber Security Event, Ankara, Turkey, December 2022. photo Read more

K. Duran received the Second Best MSc Thesis Award from IEEE Computer Society Turkey Chapter for her thesis titled ‘A Cognitive Lifecycle Methodology for IP Address Management in Next-Generation Core Networks’, September 2022. link Read more

K. Duran received the Best MSc Thesis Award in the theoretical section by IEEE ComSoc Turkey Chapter with her master thesis titled ‘A Cognitive Lifecycle Methodology for IP Address Management In Next Generation Core Networks’, September 2022. link Read more

Our workshop titled ‘Digital-twin-assisted AI for 6G wireless networking’ has been accepted to The 2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2022-Spring, Helsinki, Finland, 19-22 June 2022. link Read more

B. Canberk received the ITU Highest Number of Publications Researcher Award of 2021, May 2022. photo Read more

B. Canberk received the ITU Top Researcher Performance Award for 2016-2020 activities, May 2022. photo Read more

Our AI-enabled IoT project titled ‘Scalable and Trustful Crowdsourcing of Air Pollution Sensings’ has been accepted to be supported by the UK Royal Society, April 2022.  link Read more

B. Canberk gave a technical presentation in the IEEE Newfoundland-Labrador Section about ‘AI-Driven Digital Twin Networks in 6G Era’, Canada, December 2021.  link Read more

M. Erel Ozccevik received the 2021 IEEE Turkey Doctoral Thesis Award with her thesis named ‘Traffic and Mobility Aware Delay Modeling for Software-Defined Networks (SDN), December 2021. link Read more

B. Canberk gave an interview about ITUAI centre activities and the importance of university-industry cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence in the December issue of Fortune Magazine Turkey, December 2021. link Read more

B. Canberk gave an opening speech in Fortune Turkey, November 2021. link  Read more

B. Canberk gave an online seminar in IEEE R8 Young Professionals about AI-Driven Digital Twin Networks, November 2021. Read more

B. Canberk gave an invited lecture in Signals & Systems Course at The ECE Department, Aarhus University, Denmark, November 2021. photo Read more

B. Canberk gave TechTalk about 6G-enabled Digital Twin Networks on-site at Microsoft in Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2021. link Read more

F.R. Kilic, M.O. Ozdogan, G. Secinti, B. Canberk received the Best Paper Award at the 7th EAI International Conference on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems (EAI INISCOM) with their conference paper titled ‘CLAN: A Robust Control Link for Aerial Mesh Networks in Contested Environments’, March 2021. link Read more

E. Ak received IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM) 2020 ComSoc Student Grant, December 2020. link Read more

E. Ak received the Vehbi Koç Reseach and Teaching Assistant Scholarship, December 2020. link Read more

M. Erel Ozcevik received the Best Ph.D. Thesis of 2019 with her study entitled ‘Traffic and Mobility Aware Delay Modeling for Software-Defined Networks (SDN)’, October 2020. Read more

B. Canberk hosted a meetup about ‘R&D ad Academy Experiences of Technology Companies’ in Medianova, Turkey, September 2020. Read more

B. Canberk presented an informative webinar about the “Next Generation Wireless Management with Artificial Intelligence”, June 2020. link Read more

B. Canberk gave an interview to TUBITAK Bilim Genc about “AI gives shape to the Education”, May 2020, link. Read more

B. Canberk gave an interview about Artificial Intelligence. April 2020. Read more

B. Canberk gave a talk in EkoTurk TV about “5G and future communications technology”, Turkey, April 2020. Read more

B. Canberk is appointed the Artificial Intelligence R&D Center Director, ITU Artificial and Data Science Application and Research Center, March 2020. Read more

B. Canberk is the Publicity Co-Chair of IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (IEEE MeditCom) 2021, February 2020. Read more

B. Canberk is the TPC Co-Chair of the IoT and Sensor Networks Symposium at IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM) 2022, January 2020. Read more

B. Canberk received the 2019 Computer Engineering Academic Research Award from The Informatics Association of Turkey (Turkiye Bilisim Dernegi), November 2019. Read more

Our project entitled ‘Efficient Localization and Energy Management for Resilient Aerial Networks’ is accepted to be supported by TUBITAK 1001 Funding Program, November 2019. Read more

E. Ak received a Full Participation Scholarship for the ACM-W Europe Celebration of Women in Computing: womENcourage 2019, June 2019. link Read more

E. Dehghan received the Best Student Paper Award at The 3rd International Conference on Recent Advances in Signal Processing, Telecommunications & Computing (SigTelCom2019) with her paper entitled ‘Flow-Based Network Tomography Agent for Software-Defined Data Center’, May 2019. Read more

B . Canberk is assigned as Vice-Dean for Research Affairs of the Faculty of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, April 2019. Read more

E. Bozkaya started to conduct research at the University of Vienna for 6 months with a grant from The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), March 2019. Read more

B. Canberk is the Workshop Chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Cognitive Cyber-Physical Systems (C-CPS 2019), January 2019. Read more

B. Canberk received the IEEE Turkey’s 2018 Research Incentive Award, December 2018. Read more

B. Canberk is the TPC Co-Chair of the IEEE Mission-Oriented Wireless Sensor, UAV and Robot Networking Workshop (IEEE MISARN 2019) in IEEE INFOCOM 2019, December 2018. link Read more

E. Ak, B. Canberk awarded the First Prize in the Tubitak Private Sector Oriented Undergraduate Thesis Competition, October 2018. Read more

E. Ak, M. Akkoc have received the Turkcell Graduate Scholarship Award, 2018. Read more

S. Mohanti, E. Bozkaya, M. Y. Naderi, B. Canberk, K. R. Chowdhury received the Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM), 2018. Read more

G. Secinti’s PhD thesis titled ‘A Software Defined Network Framework in 5G Wireless Systems’ received the Best PhD Thesis of the 2018 Academic year from Istanbul Technical University 2018. Read more

B. Canberk is an editorial board member of IEEE Communications Letters, 2017. Read more

B. Canberk received the British Council (UK) Researcher Link Award, 2017. Read more

M. Erel Ozcevik received the Outstanding Teaching Assitant of the Year Award, 2017 Read more

B. Canberk is an IEEE Senior Member, 2016. Read more

B. Canberk received the NEWTON Research Award from The Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, 2016. Read more

B. Canberk is an editorial board member of Elsevier Computer Communications, 2016. Read more

G. Secinti, M. Erel Ozcevik, K. R. Chowdhury, and B. Canberk received the Best Paper Award in IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (IEEE CAMAD), 2016. Read more

M. Erel Ozcevik received the Outstanding Teaching Assitant of the Year Award, 2016. Read more

G. Secinti, M. Erel, B. Canberk received the Best Poster Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM), 2015. Read more

B. Canberk is an editorial board member of Wiley International Journal of Communications Systems, 2014. Read more

B. Canberk is an editorial board member of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2013. Read more

B. Canberk is an editorial board member of Elsevier Computer Networks, 2012. Read more