Alper Demir received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991, 1994 and 1997 respectively.

From May 1992 to January 1997 he worked as a research and teaching assistant in the Electronics Research Laboratory and the EECS department at the University of California, Berkeley. He was with Motorola during Summer 1995, and with Cadence Design Systems during Summer 1996. Dr. Demir joined the Research Division of Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies as a member of the technical staff in January 1997, where he has spent four years. He was with CeLight, a start-up in optical communications, from November 2000 until February 2002, where he was the Manager for Optical Telecommunications Systems Design. He is now with Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey as an assistant professor in the electrical and computer engineering department. Dr. Demir spent Summer 2002 in the Research Laboratory for Electronics at MIT as a visiting scientist.

The work he has done at Bell Labs and CeLight is the subject of several patents (three issued and several pending). Dr. Demir co-authored two books in the areas of nonlinear noise analysis and analog design methodologies. He received several best paper awards: 2002 Best of ICCAD: 20 years of excellence in computer-aided design, 2003 IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award.

In 1991, Alper Demir received the Regents Fellowship and the Eugene-Mona Fay Gee Scholarship from the University of California at Berkeley, and was selected an Honorary Fellow of the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). In 2003, he was selected by the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA) to receive the Distinguished Young Scientist Award.

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Serdar Tasiran received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991, 1995 and 1998 respectively.

His doctoral research on the compositional and hierarchical verification of real-time systems originated from his research internships (1995 and 1996) at AT&T Bell Laboratories. From 1998 to 2000, he was a research scientist at the Gigascale Systems Research Center, a consortium of leading US research universities and electronics systems companies.  From 2000 to 2003, he was a research scientist at the Systems Research Center (SRC) part of Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq, and later HP Laboratories. Since January 2003, he has been an assistant professor of computer engineering at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey. He was a visiting professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) and Microsoft Research Laboratories (Redmond and Silicon Valley) during the summers of 2003 and 2004.

Dr. Tasiran has done research and published in a wide range of areas, varying from software verification to hardware timing analysis, photodetectors to information visualization for bioinformatics. His work on hybrid techniques for the functional verification of the Alpha 21364 multi-processor led to a best paper nomination at last year's Design Automation Conference (DAC '03) and an invited talk at the "Highlights of DAC" session at ISSCC '04. His work on coverage metrics for design validation was quoted in EE Times.

In 1992, Serdar Tasiran received the Eugene-Mona Fay Gee Scholarship from the University of California at Berkeley, and was selected an Honorary Fellow of the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK).


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Lerzan Ormeci received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees in industrial engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, the Ph.D. degree in operations research from the Case Western Reserve University in 1990, 1993 and 1998 respectively.

She analyzed the structural properties of the optimal dynamic control in loss systems during her doctoral research. From 1999 to 2001 she worked as a research fellow in Stochastic Networks Group of EURANDOM (European Unit for Research and Analysis of Non-Deterministic Operational Models) in the Netherlands. She continued her research on loss systems, with the additional aim of applying her theoretical results on call centers. Moreover, she was a part of the project group funded by Philips Research to analyze access networks mathematically, with particular emphasis on self regulation to complement and strengthen the simulation based approach to performance analysis of access networks, as carried out within Philips Research. In this way, the position of Philips Research is strengthened in the field of the performance analysis of stochastic systems. During her stay in the Netherlands, she also gave a course on Markov processes for the third year econometrics students at Erasmus University. Since 2001, she has been with Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey as an assistant professor in the industrial engineering department.

Her research focuses on Markov decision processes and queueing analysis and control, which provide a broad opportunity for interdisciplinary studies. She works on applications for telecommunications systems, call centers, pricing issues in service systems and supply chains. She is currently co-advising two M.S. students: Isilay Talay, co-advised by Prof. Karaesmen, studies optimal inventory pricing and replenishment decisions in a make-to-stock production system with single demand class and lost sales, whereas Burcu Aydin, co-advised by Prof. Salman, works on capacitated network design with uncertain demand and congestion.

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