Engineering Assistant

MESUT ALI ERGIN

*** ********** **. ***. **, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA.

Phone: 862-***-**** Fax: 512-***-****

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

http://www.aliergin.com

Objective Statement

A full-time research and development position to utilize my prior experience in networking research and

engineering. Available after Feb. 2010 timeframe.

Education

2004 - currentPh. D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers

University, School of Engineering, New Brunswick, NJ, USA (Expected Graduation:

Feb 2010)

Advisors: Prof. Marco Gruteser and Prof. Dipankar Raychaudhuri

2002M. S. in Computer Engineering (High Honors), Bogazici University,

Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, Istanbul, TURKEY

M. S. Thesis: A Cross Layer Protocol for Service Access in Mobile Ad Hoc

Networks

Advisor: Prof. Cem Ersoy

1999B. S. in Control & Computer Engineering (Honors),

Istanbul Technical University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Faculty, Istanbul, TURKEY

B. S. Thesis: GSM Interface Board Design for a Commercial Payphone

Supervisor: Prof. B. Tevfik Akgun

1995Istanbul Technical University, Foreign Languages School,

Istanbul, TURKEY

1994City of London College, English Language School, London, UK

Professional Experience

09/2004 - currentGraduate Research Assistant, WINLAB Research

Center, Rutgers University, NJ, USA

- Research Assistantship for ORBIT Wireless Research Testbed under

NSF NRT Grant ANI0335244

- Software development with XML-based technologies

- Various wireless projects under sponsorship research programs for Panasonic,

Intel and Toyota ITC.

05/2006 - 09/2006Graduate Intern, Intel Corp., Radio Comm. Lab /

CTG, Hillsboro, OR, USA

- Software scheduler development for interference mitigation due to multi-radio

coexistence

- Performance enhancing designs for High Density WLAN environments

06/2005 - 09/2005Graduate Intern, Intel Corp., Radio Comm. Lab /

CTG, and Wireless Lab / MPG, Santa Clara, CA, USA

- Worked as an engineer in multi-radio coexistence analysis project

for laptop platforms

- Responsible from evaluation of the application-level impacts of co-existence

of different radio technologies like 802.11, UWB, WiMAX etc.

09/1999 - 08/2004Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of

Computer Engineering, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, TURKEY

- Teaching Assistantship for many undergraduate courses (see Teaching

Experience)

- Research Assistantship for SeMA project under TUBITAK grants

101E037/EEEAG-AY-41 and 101E037/EEEAG-AY-44

- Senior System Administrator of departmental servers (1000+ users)

06/1998 - 06/1999Contracted Counselor, Alcatel Inc.,

R&D Department, Istanbul, TURKEY

- Designed a compact GSM interface system with two processors including

real-time software implementations in both high and low level languages

11/1997 - 09/2002Technical Manager, A & A Computers Ltd.,

Istanbul, TURKEY

- Developed network implementations, provided solutions for GNU/Linux systems,

supervised domain maintenance and web design, led software-on-demand

implementations

Teaching Experience

Data Communication and Computer Networks: Developed and maintained

laboratory content for nine semesters

Special Topics in Computer Networks: Prepared PS sessions and

organized term projects on high speed and wireless networks topics for two

semesters

Operating Systems Design: Taught practical aspects of UNIX-like

OS from the viewpoint of a systems programmer and OS designer for eight

semesters

Principles of Logic Design: Conducted hands-on experiments of

basic logic circuitry for one semester.

Systems Programming and Assembly Language: Developed and

conducted hands-on experiments on MC6802 based microprocessor kits for one

semester

Introduction to Computers: Taught as the first course of CS

juniors for two semesters

Research Interests

Performance of wireless networks under real deployment

scenarios, involving high density and mobile environments. Creating better

wireless experience for the users of the future Internet. Adaptation approaches

for better multi-radio coexistence.

Publications

C. Dwertmann, M. A. Ergin, G. Jourjon, M. Ott, T. Rakotoarivelo, I. Seskar, and M. Gruteser, ``DEMO: Mobile Experiments Made Easy with OMF/Orbit'', In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 (Demo Session), Spain, August 2009.

G. Chandrasekaran, M. A. Ergin, M. Gruteser, R. P. Martin, J. Yang, and Y. Chen. ``DECODE: Exploiting Shadow Fading to DEtect CO-Moving Wireless DEvices'', IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (Accepted for Publication), July 2009.

G. Chandrasekaran, M. A. Ergin, J. Yang, S. Liu, Y. Chen, M. Gruteser, and R. P. Martin, ``Empirical Evaluation of the Limits on Localization Using Signal Strength'', In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Network (IEEE SECON 2009), (Accepted for Publication), Rome, Italy, June 2009.

X. Jing, S. Anandaraman, M. A. Ergin, I. Seskar, and

D. Raychaudhuri, ``Distributed Coordination Schemes for Multi-Radio

Co-existence in Dense Spectrum Environments: An Experimental Study on the ORBIT

Testbed'', In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposia on

Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (IEEE DySPAN 2008), pp. 156-166 Chicago, IL,

USA, October 2008.

M. A. Ergin, K. Ramachandran, M. Gruteser, ``An Experimental

Study of Inter-cell Interference Effects on System Performance in Unplanned

Wireless LAN Deployments'', Computer Networks (Elsevier), Vol.52,

Issue 14, pp. 2728-2744, October 2008.

G. Chandrasekaran, M. A. Ergin, R. P. Martin, M. Gruteser, J. Yang, Y.

Chen, ``DECODE: Detecting Co-Moving Wireless Devices'', In Proceedings of

the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems

(IEEE MASS 2008), pp. 315-320, Atlanta, GA, USA, September 2008.

M. A. Ergin, M. Gruteser, L. Luo, D. Raychaudhuri, H. Liu, ``Available

Bandwidth Estimation and Admission Control for QoS Routing in Wireless Mesh

Networks'', Computer Communications (Elsevier), Vol.31, Issue 7, pp.

1301-1317, May 2008.

G. Chandrasekaran, M. A. Ergin, M. Gruteser, R. P. Martin, ``Bootstrapping

a Location Service Through Geocoded Postal Addresses'', In Springer LNCS,

Proceedings of the 3rd Intl. Symposium on Location and Context-Awareness (LoCA,

held with UbiComp), volume 4718, pp. 1-16, Germany, September 2007.

M. A. Ergin, K. Ramachandran, M. Gruteser, ``Extended Abstract:

Understanding the Effect of Access Point Density on Wireless LAN Performance'',

In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing

and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2007), pp. 350-353, Montreal, Canada, September,

2007.

M. A. Ergin, M. Gruteser, ``Using Packet Probes for Available Bandwidth

Estimation: A Wireless Testbed Experience (Poster In Proceedings of

First ACM SIGMOBILE Int. Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental

Evaluation, and Characterization (WiNTECH 2006, held with Mobicom), Los

Angeles, CA, USA, September 2006.

S. Baydere, M. A. Ergin, and O. Durmaz, ``Constructing Wireless Sensor

Networks via Effective Topology Maintenance and Querying", Proc. of

Med-Hoc-Net 2004, 3 Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking

Workshop, Bodrum, Turkey, June 2004

M. A. Ergin, ``A Cross Layer Protocol for Service Access in Mobile Ad Hoc

Networks", M. S. Thesis, Bogazici University, 2003

E. Ozcan, A. Alkan, S. Demir, M. A. Ergin, H. Kul, and S. E. Seker,

``STARS - Student Transcript, Administration and Registration System, an Open

Source Internet Application", Fifth National Academic Information

Technologies Conference, e-paper ref. 87, Turkey, 2003

S. Baydere and M. A. Ergin, ``An Architecture for Service Access in Mobile

Ad Hoc Networks", Proceedings of the IASTED Wireless and Optical

Communications, pp. 392-397, Banff, Canada, July 2002

S. Baydere and M. A. Ergin, ``A Model for Dynamic Service Discovery in

Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on

Computer Networks, pp. 120-128, Gazimagusa, Cyprus, June 2001

Technical Skills

Programming Skills

- Various advanced level programming in C, Java, Pascal, Fortran and Basic

languages

- Systems programing in Linux user and kernel spaces

- Shell programming with BASH and TCL

- Server side web programming with PHP and JSP

- Portal design and web application integration with Apache Cocoon

- Experience in three-tiered programming in PHP, Apache httpd, MySQL environment

- Microprocessor programming in C and assembly (Motorola, Microchip, Atmel families)

- Numerical programming with MATLAB

Administration Skills

- Senior level administration of UNIX-based servers, running

Apache, wu-ftpd, OpenSSH, SAMBA, DHCP, NIS, NFS, bind, qmail,

sqwebmail, procmail, iptables, squid, snort, and tripwire

- Database administration of MySQL and Sybase ASA on Linux

- Network administration for various level hardware like layer-3

switches, routers and IEEE 802.11 variant wireless devices

Other Skills

- Extensive advanced use of Linux, Solaris, MS-DOS, and MS Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP

- Comprehensive wireless lab experience with spectrum analyzers, signal and traffic generators, scopes, power meters and antennas

Professional Memberships

IEEE, Communication Society, Control Society and Computer Society

Member, ACM Member, Turkish Linux Users Association Member

Awards

Member of ORBIT Project Team, The Schwarzkopf Award from NSF IUCRC

Association, 2008

NSF Travel Award for MobiCom, 2008

Fully Supported Graduate Assistant, Rutgers University, 2004-2008

Favorites

Latin Dances (Former BUDANS Member), Stage Arts and Polyphonic

Music, Guitar, Sound Systems and Acoustics

References

Prof. Dipankar Raychaudhuri

WINLAB Research Center Phone: 732-***-**** x.638

Rutgers University Fax: 732-***-****

671 Rt.1 South, North Brunswick, NJ 08902 Email: ***@******.*******.***

Assist. Prof. Marco Gruteser

WINLAB Research Center Phone: 732-***-**** x.649

Rutgers University Fax: 732-***-****

671 Rt.1 South, North Brunswick, NJ 08902 Email: ********@******.*******.***

Dr. Lakshman Krishnamurthy

Intel Corp., CTG Phone: 503-***-****

Radio Communication Lab Fax: 503-***-****

2111 NE 25th Ave., Hillsboro, OR 97123 Email: ********.*************@*****.***

Dr. Camille Chen

Apple Inc. Phone: 408-***-****

Wireless System Engineering Fax: 408-***-****

1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014 Email: ****.*@*****.***

Mesut Ali Ergin

2009-10-14

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