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Can Emre Koksal is an electrical engineer, computer scientist, academic, and entrepreneur. He is the Founder and CEO of Datanchor, and a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ohio State University.

Koksal is best known for his research on wireless communication, information security, communication networks, and information theory. He is the author of more than 150 academic papers and the inventor in 8 patents. He is the recipient of several awards for his inventions. He has been an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and Elsevier Computer Networks.

Education

Koksal received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Middle East Technical University in 1996. He then emigrated to the United States, earning his Master's and Doctoral degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998 and 2002, respectively. His dissertation, Providing Quality of Service over High Speed Switches and Optical Networks, was supervised by Robert G. Gallager.

Career

Koksal has internship positions at ASELSAN Military Electronics and Tellabs. He was an engineer at Sycamore Networks. Academically, he was affiliated with MIT Lincoln Lab. until 1998, Lab for Information and Decision Systems until 2003, and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labs until 2004. From 2004 to 2006, he held appointment as a Senior Researcher in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL. In 2006, Koksal joined the Ohio State University as an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was promoted to associate professor in 2013, and became Professor in 2017.

Koksal is the Founder and CEO of Datanchor.

Research

Koksal has focused his research on information security, communication networks, wireless communication, and information theory.

Data security

In the latter part of his career, Koksal has focused on securing data. He has combined data encryption with physical contextual access control. Earlier in such efforts he has made data access controlled via sound waves using a high data-rate acoustic modem he has built. Later on, he has generalized the ideas to enable data to protect itself as protection is directly integrated into files and database queries. He developed a wireless communication system with applications to achieve constant bit rate data transmission over a block fading channel, securely from an eavesdropper. His research indicated that the optimal power control involves a time sharing between secure water filling and channel inversion strategies. In 2017, he studied the ways to optimally manage the freshness of information updates sent from a source node to a destination via a channel. With an intention to secure massive MIMO at the physical layer, he introduced n beamforming strategy that establishes information theoretic security without need to Wyner encoding.

Network switches

Koksal's earlier research interests revolved around optical and electronic switches and building efficient algorithms that would eliminate the inefficiencies associated with the flow of data due to constraints associated with switching fabrics. He has shown that complexities can be eliminated and at the same time full throughput can be achieved by a variety of multistage switch architectures in optical and electronic networks.

Wireless communication

Later, Koksal has investigated problems at the intersection of wireless communication and networking. In the early stages of wireless networks, he has built wireless-channel-aware network algorithms for wireless sensor networks and mesh networks. He has also derived the outage capacity of wireless channels and networks under energy-harvesting power sources.

Wireless security

Koksal has also focused on problems around securing wireless networks at the physical layer. He has applied information-theoretic ideas for information secrecy for large-scale wireless networks. These efforts lead to a better understanding of the scaling of secrecy capacity of wireless networks and how to implement such wireless networks with secrecy constraints. He has applied his ideas in securing vehicular communications via physical-layer mechanisms.

Awards and honors

• 2011 - CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (NSF)
• 2011, 2017 - Lumley Research Award, OSU College of Engineering
• 2011 - IRP Award, HP Labs
• 2016, 2019 - Innovators Award, OSU College of Engineering
• 2016 - Third Prize, IEEE VNC Mobile App Design Contest
• 2018 - Best Paper, IEEE WiOpt
• 2019 - Inventor of the Year, Columbus Business
• 2020 - Tech Innovation Award, CRN Magazine

Bibliography

• Koksal, C. E., Kassab, H., & Balakrishnan, H. (2000, June). An analysis of short-term fairness in wireless media access protocols. In Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems (pp. 118–119).
• Miu, A., Balakrishnan, H., & Koksal, C. E. (2005, August). Improving loss resilience with multi-radio diversity in wireless networks. In Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking (pp. 16–30).
• Koksal, C. E., & Balakrishnan, H. (2006). Quality-aware routing metrics for time-varying wireless mesh networks. IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications, 24(11), 1984–1994.
• Koyluoglu, O. O., Koksal, C. E., & El Gamal, H. (2012). On secrecy capacity scaling in wireless networks. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 58(5), 3000–3015.
• Sun, Y., Uysal-Biyikoglu, E., Yates, R. D., Koksal, C. E., & Shroff, N. B. (2017). Update or wait: How to keep your data fresh. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 63(11), 7492–7508.

References

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10. "Data delivery using acoustic transmissions".
11. Gungor, Onur; Tan, Jian; Koksal, Can Emre; El Gamal, Hesham; Shroff, Ness B. (March 24, 2010). "Joint Power and Secret Key Queue Management for Delay Limited Secure Communication". 2010 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM. pp. 1–9. doi:10.1109/INFCOM.2010.5462158. ISBN 978-1-4244-5836-3. S2CID 15398579 – via IEEE Xplore.
12. Sun, Yin; Uysal-Biyikoglu, Elif; Yates, Roy D.; Koksal, C. Emre; Shroff, Ness B. (November 24, 2017). "Update or Wait: How to Keep Your Data Fresh". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 63 (11): 7492–7508. arXiv:1601.02284. doi:10.1109/TIT.2017.2735804. S2CID 990701.
13. Basciftci, Y. Ozan; Koksal, C. Emre; Ashikhmin, Alexei (September 24, 2015). "Securing massive MIMO at the physical layer". 2015 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS). pp. 272–280. doi:10.1109/CNS.2015.7346837. ISBN 978-1-4673-7876-5. S2CID 12672200 – via IEEE Xplore.
14. Koksal, C.E.; Gallager, R.G.; Rohrs, C.E. (March 24, 2004). "Rate quantization and service quality over single crossbar switches". IEEE Infocom 2004. Vol. 3. pp. 1962–1973 vol.3. doi:10.1109/INFCOM.2004.1354605. ISBN 0-7803-8355-9. S2CID 2619308 – via IEEE Xplore.
15. Koksal, C.E. (2007). "An Analysis of Blocking Switches Using Error Control Codes". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 53 (8): 2892–2897. doi:10.1109/TIT.2007.901191. S2CID 2047662.
16. Sridharan, Arun; Koksal, C. Emre (November 24, 2011). "A greedy link scheduler for wireless networks with fading channels". 2011 Conference Record of the Forty Fifth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (ASILOMAR). pp. 713–717. doi:10.1109/ACSSC.2011.6190096. ISBN 978-1-4673-0323-1. S2CID 7963167 – via IEEE Xplore.
17. Koksal, Can Emre; Kassab, Hisham; Balakrishnan, Hari (August 24, 2000). "An analysis of short-term fairness in wireless media access protocols (poster session)". Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems - SIGMETRICS '00. ACM Press. pp. 118–119. doi:10.1145/339331.339401. ISBN 1581131941. S2CID 6383085.
18. Bendary, Ahmed; Koksal, C. Emre; Canaday, Daniel; Pomerance, Andrew (2021). "Unconditional Authentication for Constrained Applications via Strong PUFs". 2021 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS). pp. 272–280. doi:10.1109/CNS53000.2021.9705035. ISBN 978-1-6654-4496-5. S2CID 246753838.
19. Basciftci, Y. Ozan; Koksal, C. Emre (June 24, 2014). "Private broadcasting with probing constraint". 2014 IEEE 15th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC). pp. 409–413. doi:10.1109/SPAWC.2014.6941819. ISBN 978-1-4799-4903-8. S2CID 1653540 – via IEEE Xplore.
20. Gungor, Onur; Koksal, Can Emre; Gamal, Hesham El (2013). "On secrecy outage capacity of fading channels under relaxed delay constraints". 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. pp. 2024–2028. doi:10.1109/ISIT.2013.6620581. ISBN 978-1-4799-0446-4. S2CID 8047289.
21. Miu, Allen; Balakrishnan, Hari; Koksal, Can Emre (2005). "Improving loss resilience with multi-radio diversity in wireless networks". Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking - Mobi Com '05. p. 16. doi:10.1145/1080829.1080832. ISBN 1595930205. S2CID 2152657.
22. "Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)".
23. "Lumley Research Awards".
24. "2016 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) December 8–10, 2016, Columbus, Ohio, USA".
25. "Emre Koksal named 2019 'Inventor of the Year' at BizTech Awards".

• Living people
• Turkish electrical engineers
• Turkish computer scientists
• Ohio State University faculty
• Middle East Technical University alumni
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni