Engineer Project

CAN ILHAN

February ****

http://www.canilhan.com

********@*****.***

Date of Birth: 23.03.1984 Home Phone (TR): +90-242-***-****

Nationality: Turkish GSM Phone (USA): +90-535-***-****

College: Columbia University Home: Maslak/Istanbul TURKEY

New York/NY USA

Marital Status: Single

Military Obligation: Fulfilled between 08/2010 01/2011

Experince

10/2008 08/2010 AirTies Wireless Networks R&D Engineer Istanbul, TURKEY

Worked as Software Engineer in wireless department and involved in 4 different

projects, with increased importance and responsibility.

Implementing WPA/WPA2 security for WDS links.

Developing & R&D Leading AirTies patented technology called AirTouch.

R&D Leading Air5450v3, flagship ADSL modem for that time.

Education

2007 2008 Columbia University New York, USA

The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE).

3.75/4.00 GPA.

Graduated with High Honor.

2002 2007 Sabanci University Istanbul, TURKEY

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences (FENS)

Bachelor Science in Telecommunication Program (BSTE)

3.68/4.00 GPA.

Graduated with High Honor.

1999 2002 Antalya College Science School Antalya, TURKEY

5.00/5.00 GPA.

Graduated with Top Honors, summa cum laude.

Internship

2006 Texas Instruments Istanbul, TURKEY

8 week internship at TI Istanbul

Using Zigbee technology, synchronising digital clocks where each clock mimic as a

node in a point to multipoint sensor network.

Achievements

2002 SU Honor Scholarship (tuition, living expences)

Ranking 3rd among the applicants entering to Sabanci University in 2002.

2002 Nationwide University Entrance Examination (OSS)

309th among 1.5 million applicants at the annual central national university

enterance exam in 2002 (SAT-like exam).

Skills & Languages

Programming Skills

C, C++, C#, Java, Matlab, PhP, SQL, Assembly, VHDL, OpenCv

Work Environments

UNIX/Linux, Windows, MS Visual Studio, MS Office, MS Project

Languages (reading, writing and speaking)

Turkish (native), English (advanced), German (intermediate)

Academic Activities & Projects

2004 Robot Design and Competition

Constructing a robot, based on boe-board and programming it to meet the

requirements of the national competition among other participants.

2006 Computer Based Oscilloscope

Creating the hardware components of a simple oscilloscope, writing an assembly

program for displaying signal voltages on the computer screen using printer port.

2007 Licence Plate Recognition (LPR)

Recognizing the license plate of the cars that is entering a parking lot and saving it

to a database using MATLAB.

2007 Simple CPU Design and Implementation

Using MIPS architecture and instruction set, coding a simple CPU using Xilinx and

Modelsim, where verilog is the main language. It is then implemented on FPGA board.

2007 Business Plan of a Coffee Shop

In a group of three, writing a detailed business plan for a coffee shop to convince

the bank to get the loan.

2006-2007 Senior Project Construncting RoofNet Like Mesh Network

Implementing open source mesh network applications, specifically MIT s roofnet

project, constructing a similar mesh network on campus. Trying different routing

algorithms on Linux based nodes, finding the most efficient system for streaming real

time video.

2007 Accoustic Echo Cancellation

For VoIP applications, coding a filter in Matlab (acts as a linear equalizer) that can

eliminate the echo caused by hands-free communication as well as environment (room

reverb).

2008 Pelmanism Embedded Systems Design Term Project

Using Altera DE2 board, implementing an interactive picture based memory game. C

is used for software development and VHDL for hardware development.

2008 Directional Antennas MiMo Simulation

Researching directional antennas focusing on load balancing routing and

directional MAC solutions. Also simulating its performance using MATLAB to test its

proposed gains.

2008 Text Mining for Predicting Stock Prices

Using Weka (machine learning package) and Java, developing AI models to predict

stock prices by classifying news articles as well as comparing the performances of

different machine learning algorithms.

Non-Academic Activities & Projects

2003-2004 Civic Involvment Project

Helping poor students taking their education in an elementary school in the

neighbourhood and guiding how to get over their on&off school problems.

Social Activities & Interests

Memberships

Sabanci University IEEE Student Branch President

Computer Club

Aviation Club

Interests

Tenis, Squash, Snowboard, Archery, Fitness, Swimming, Web Design, SEO, Photography

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