Fatih Senel
* ****** ****** ***. * Voice: 443-***-****
Owings Mills, MD 21117 WWW: www.csee.umbc.edu/~fsenel1
Information
E-mail: abpfzs@r.postjobfree.com
Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Optimization of Network-Related Problems, Wireless Ad Hoc
Research
and Sensor Networks, Topology Management, Node Placement Strategies
Interest
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland
Education
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science (Expected Graduation August 2012)
Thesis : Relay Node Placement for Federating Wireless Sensor Networks
Advisor : Dr. Mohamed Younis
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
M.S., Computer Science, May 2008
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
B.S., Computer Science, May 2005
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland
Academic
Experience Research Assistant, Computer Science, Aug 2008 - Present
Connectivity establishment in structurally damaged Wireless Sensor Networks
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
Reasearch Assistant, Computer Science, Aug 2007 - May 2008
Clustering of Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks based on Sensor Distribution and Connec-
tivity
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
Teaching Assistant, Computer Science, Jan 2007 - May 2007
F. Senel and M. Younis, Novel Relay Node Placement Algorithms for Establishing Connected
Journals
Topologies, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, (submitted).
F. Senel and M. Younis, Relay Node Placement in Structurally Damaged Wireless Sensor Networks
via Triangular Steiner Tree Approximation, Computer Communications, Vol. 34, No. 16, pp. 1932-
1941, 2011.
F. Senel, M. Younis and K. Akkaya, Bio-inspired Relay Node Placement Heuristics for Repairing
Damaged Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 60, No. 4,
pp. 1835-1848, 2011.
K. Akkaya, F. Senel, A. Thimmapuram and S. Uludag, Distributed Recovery from Network Par-
titioning in Mobile Sensor/Actor Networks via Controlled Mobility, IEEE Transactions on Com-
puters, Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 258-271, 2010.
K. Akkaya, F. Senel and B. McLaughlan, Clustering of Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks based
on Sensor Distribution and Connectivity, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 69,
No. 6, pp. 573-587, 2009.
K. Akkaya and F. Senel, Detecting and Connecting Disjoint Sub-networks in Wireless Sensor and
Actor Network, Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Vol. 7, No. 7, pp. 1330-1346, 2009.
F. Senel and M. Younis, Optimized Relay Node Placement for Establishing Connectivity in Sensor
Conferences
Networks, in the Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
(Globecom 12), Anaheim, CA, December 2012 (to appear).
I. F. Senturk, K. Akkaya and F. Senel, An Effective and Scalable Connectivity Restoration Heuris-
tic for Mobile Sensor/Actor Networks, in the Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Global Telecommunica-
tions Conference (Globecom 12), Anaheim, CA, December 2012 (to appear).
F. Senel and M. Younis, Optimized Interconnection of Disjoint Wireless Sensor Network Segments
Using K Mobile Data Collectors, in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
Communications (IEEE ICC 12), Ottawa, ON, Canada, June 2012.
F. Senel and M. Younis, Optimized Connectivity Restoration in a Partitioned Wireless Sensor Net-
work, in the Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 11 ),
Houston, TX, December 2011.
F. Senel, M. Younis, K. Akkaya, A Robust Relay Node Placement Heuristic for Structurally
Damaged Wireless Sensor Networks, in the Proceedings of the 34th IEEE Conference on Local
Computer Networks (LCN 09), Z rich, Switzerland, October 2009
u
K. Akkaya, A. Thimmapuram, F. Senel and S. Uludag, Distributed Recovery of Actor Failures in
Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks, in the Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Wireless Communications
& Networking Conference (WCNC 08), Las Vegas NV, April 2008.
F. Senel, K. Akkaya and M. Younis, An efficient mechanism for establishing connectivity in Wire-
less Sensor and Actor Networks, in the Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Global Telecommunications
Conference (Globecom 07 ), Washington DC, November 2007
Software Engineer
Professional
Experience Havelsan A.S. Ankara, Turkey, Aug 2005 - Dec 2006
Involved in Turkish Air Force Command and Control System - TuAF CCIS ($200M project
budget)
Worked as a Java developer in the implementations of Short Range Air Defense (SHORAD)
Planning
and Flight Mission Planning System.
Used Java(J2EE), JBoss, Oracle, CVS, XML, Ant, Rational Software
Software Developer - Part Time
Usta Software Ltd. Ankara, Turkey, Jan 2005 - Jun 2005
Developed a finance program for mid-sized companies in order to follow-up their stock, ow
of currency with Delphi and MSSQL
Software Developer - Intern
Tekstilbank A.S. Istanbul, Turkey, Jan 2005 - Jun 2005
Developed a web-based ATM machine status follow-up system with JSP and Oracle
Languages: Java, C, C++, C#, PHP, HTML, SQL, JSP, XML, JavaScript, AJAX, Matlab,
Computer Skills
Wolfram Mathematica, UML, some use of Unix shell scripts
Applications: MS Office, CVS & Subversion, MS Visual Studio .NET, J2EE platform, Adobe
Photoshop, Rational Clearquest, Weka, Crossbow Mica Motes, L TEX, spreadsheet, and presen-
A
tation software
Operating Systems: Unix/Linux, Windows
Graduate Research Assistantship, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2008-2011
Honors and
Awards
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2007
Graduate Research Assistantship, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2007-2008
Full Scholarship, (tuition remission, accomodation, stipend), Bilkent University, 2000-2005
Nationwide University exam ranked 405 among 1,500,000 people, 2000
Nationwide Lycee Entrance Exam ranked 1st in Karabuk and ranked 77th nationwide among app.
900,000 people, 1997
Ad hoc Networks Journal
Reviewer for
Computer Communications Journal
IEEE ICC 2012, AHSN
WiSARN, Fall 2011
IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, AHSN
Founder and president of Bilkent Media Club, June 2004-May 2005
Extracurricular
Activities Vice president of Turkish Student Association (TSA) Student Club, Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, Aug 2007 - May 2008
Dr. Mohamed Younis
References
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
abpfzs@r.postjobfree.com
Dr. Samuel J. Lomonaco, Jr.
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
abpfzs@r.postjobfree.com
Dr. Kemal Akkaya
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Department of Computer Science
abpfzs@r.postjobfree.com