Welcome

Professional bio: 

Dr. Alphan Şahin earned his B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and telecommunications engineering (double major) and his M.S. in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 2005, 2006, and 2008, respectively. Between 2006 and 2009, he was with the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), worked on FPGAs as a researcher, and designed hardware for information security.  He earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL, in 2013. Later, he served as a postdoctoral research associate at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, and Florida International University, Miami, FL, before joining InterDigital in 2015. He focused on the IEEE 802.11 and 3GPP 5G NR standards while at InterDigital. He is currently affiliated with the University of South Carolina as an assistant professor. He is a recipient of the 2025 National Science Foundation CAREER Award. His research interests lie at the intersection of signal processing, communication theory, information theory, optimization, AI/ML algorithms, sequences, and number theory, with an emphasis on the physical layer of wireless networks.

Professional background:

• Assistant Professor (Aug. 2019 - present), University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

• Staff Engineer (Apr. 2015 - Jun. 2019), InterDigital, Melville, NY

• Assistant Scholar/Scientist/Engineer (Feb. 2015 - Apr. 2015),  Florida International University, Miami, FL

• Postdoctoral Research Associate (Feb. 2014 - Dec. 2014),  Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Jan. 2010 - Dec. 2013), University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 

  • Ph.D. Dissertation: “Towards Interference-Immune and Channel-Aware Multicarrier Schemes: Filters, Lattices, and Interference Issues”

• Researcher (Jun. 2006 - Dec. 2009), Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey, Kocaeli, Turkey

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering (Sep. 2005 - May 2008), Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

• B.S. degree in Telecommunications Engineering - Double Major (Sep. 2004 - Aug. 2006), Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey 

• B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (Sep. 2003 - May 2005), Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey 

Contact: [asahin]@mailbox.sc.edu, [alphan.sahin]@gmail.com

My GitHub page:  https://github.com/alphansahin/

Personal statement:

I like math, science, and nature, from bugs to sharks. I love discussions and learning from them. I love innovating as much as I can. My goal is to be a lifelong learner. I believe that happiness is in doing, not getting what you want, and I like getting my hands dirty. I like writing my own papers. I go and write my own code. I am passionate about what I am doing.

Announcements:

I will hire one fully funded Ph.D. student, starting in Fall 2026, as part of my NSF CAREER Project: Over-the-Air Computation - Turning Wireless Networks into Computing Networks (2025-2030). The position focuses on research in communication, with a strong emphasis on mathematics. Must qualifications: 

• • Grit, passion, persistence (and not quitting till finishing the work)

  • Experience in innovating a new idea as a first inventor and demonstrating it

  • Enjoy reading/writing technical papers and solving mathematical puzzles

  • Being a first author in an IEEE paper in communications or signal processing, and/or holding a master's degree in the areas of wireless communications or mathematics. 

  • Familiarity with software-defined radios