Ahmet M. Elbir
Research Fellow, University of Luxembourg
e-mail: ahmetmelbir@ieee.org & ahmetmelbir@gmail.com
Short Bio:
Ahmet M. Elbir (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree with Honors from Firat University in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree from the Middle East Technical University (METU) in 2016, both in electrical engineering. He is currently a Research Fellow at University of Luxembourg. He is also a Research Associate at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) since 2023. In the past, Dr Elbir has held Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher positions at Koc University in 2020-2021, Carleton University in 2022-2023, and the University of Hertfordshire in 2021-2023. In 2016-2022, he worked as a Senior Researcher at Duzce University. His research interests include array signal processing for radar and communications, and deep learning for multi-antenna systems. He has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, and a Lead Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and IEEE Wireless Communications. Dr. Elbir is the recipient of the 2016 METU Best Ph.D. thesis award for his doctoral studies, the 2022 IEEE Turkey Section Research Encouragement Award, and the IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation Best Paper Award in 2022.
Research Interests:
Array Signal Processing for Radar & Communications
Millimeter-Wave & THz Communications
Integrated Sensing and Communications
Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces
Sparsity-Driven Convex Optimization for Radar & Communications
News:
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Apr 2024: Tutorial on "Learning Techniques for mmWave/THz Communications and Sensing" in IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM 2024), Oregon, USA, 8-11 July 2024
Feb 2024: Tutorial on "Learning-Aided mmWave/THz Communications and Sensing", at IEEE DySPAN, 13–16 May 2024 // Washington, DC
Feb 2024: Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging Special Section on Computational Imaging using Synthetic Apertures
Nov 2023: Received certificate for Associate Professorship by Turkish Higher Education Council
Nov 2023: Appointed as Associate Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
Nov 2023: Elected as Vice-Chair at Synthetic Apertures Technical Working Group of IEEE SPS.
Oct 2023: Lead Guest Editor for the Special Issue in Elsevier Signal Processing on Integrated Sensing and Communications
Oct 2023: Technical Track Co-Chair on Integrated Imaging and Communications at CISA 2024
Sep 2023: Lead Guest Editor for the Special Issue in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine on Near-Field Signal Processing: Communications, Sensing and Imaging
Sep 2023: Guest Editor for the Special Issue in IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Sensors Special Section on Integrating Sensing and Communication for Intelligent Internet of Things
Jun 2023: Appointed as Subcommittee chair for special issues in IEEE SPS TWG on Synthetic Apertures.
May 2023: Tutorial in IEEE BlackSeaCom Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 04-07 July, on "Learning-Based Centralized and Distributed Techniques for mmWave and THz-Band Communications"
May 2023: Lead Guest Editor for the Special Issue in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing on “Integrated Sensing and Communications for Geoscience and Remote Sensing”
Apr 2023: Lead Guest Editor for the Special Issue in IEEE Communications Standards Magazine on Integrated Sensing and Communications
Mar 2023: Lead Guest Editor for the Special Issue in IEEE Wireless Communications on Near-field Communications
Mar 2023: Accepted Overview Paper in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine for the Special Issue of the 75th Anniversary of IEEE Signal Processing Society: "Twenty-Five Years of Advances in Beamforming: From Convex and Nonconvex Optimization to Learning Techniques"
Feb 2023: Exemplary Reviewer for IEEE TCOM (2022) and IEEE Communications Letters (since 2020).
Feb 2023: Lead Guest Editor for the Special Issue in IEEE JSTSP on "Near-field Signal Processing"
Jan 2023: Member, IEEE SPS Synthetic Apertures Technical Working Group
Dec 2022: Accepted Overview Paper in IEEE Network Magazine: The Rise of Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces in Integrated Sensing and Communications Paradigms
Dec 2022: Tutorial on Hybrid beamforming for mm-Wave and THz Joint Radar-Communications at IEEE AP-S/URSI Conference to be Presented in June 2023
Dec 2022: TPC Member at ICASSP 2023 Workshop on Signal Processing for Synthetic Apertures
Nov 2022: Our Book Chapter on: "Machine Learning for Metasurfaces Design and Their Applications", in Advances in Electromagnetics Empowered by Machine Learning, D. H. Werner and S. D. Campbell (Eds.), Wiley-IEEE Press. [Preprint]
Oct 2022: Invited Lecture at George Washington U. on "Introduction to Machine Learning for Communications"
Sep 2022: Session Chair at MeditCom, Machine Learning for Communications
Aug 2022: Invited Talk at Dept. of ECE, Mississippi State University on "Deep Learning for Radar and Communications"
Jul 2022: Accepted Overview Paper in IEEE MeditCom 2022: Federated Learning in Vehicular Networks [Preprint]
Jun 2022: Accepted Paper in IEEE TCCN: A Hybrid Architecture for Federated and Centralized Learning [Preprint]
May 2022: Invited Talk at URSI AP-RASC 2022 on "Deep Learning for Hybrid Beamforming in Joint Radar-Communications"
Apr 2022: Accepted Overview Paper in IEEE WCM: Cognitive Learning-Aided Multi-Antenna Communications [Preprint]
Apr 2022: Been The Most Published Researcher in Duzce University in The Area of Natural Sciences and Engineering During 2021, Three years in a row
Mar 2022: Joined Carleton University as a Research Fellow working on Distributed Machine Learning for Communications.
Feb 2022: My first work on deep learning received The IET Premium Award: A. M. Elbir, K. V. Mishra and Y. C. Eldar, "Cognitive radar antenna selection via deep learning," IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 871-880, 6 2019.
Dec 2021: Joint tutorial with K.V. Mishra at IEEE ICC 2022 on Deep Learning Techniques for Hybrid Beamforming in mmWave and THz-Band Communications and Radar
Sep 2021: Accepted Paper in IEEE JSTSP Special Issue on Joint Radar & Communications: "Terahertz-Band Joint Ultra-Massive MIMO Radar-Communications: Model-Based and Model-Free Hybrid Beamforming" [Preprint]
Sep 2021: Accepted Paper in IEEE Comm. Magazine: "Federated Learning for Physical Layer Design" [Preprint]
Sep 2021: Invited Talk at IEEE Future Networks; Massive MIMO Workshop on Deep Learning for Wireless Communications
Jun 2021: Been The Most Published Researcher in Duzce University in The Area of Natural Sciences and Engineering During 2020
May 2021: Tutorial at EUSIPCO 2021 on "Massive and Ultramassive MIMO Hybrid Beamforming for Radar and Communications: Optimization to Deep Learning" with K.V. Mishra from US Army Research Lab
Apr 2021: Joined University of Hertfordshire as a Research Fellow
Mar 2021: Invited Talk at 2021 International Symposium on Multidisciplinary Studies and Innovative Technologies on "Machine Learning for Wireless Communications"
Mar 2021: Invited Talk at Eskisehir Technical University on "Deep Learning for Array Signal Processing"
Feb 2021: Research grant approved by Turkish National Science Agency for Postdoctoral studies on "Distributed Machine Learning in Vehicular Networks" at Koc University.
Feb 2021: Invited talk at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications on "Deep learning for physical layer design".
Jan 2021: Joined University of Luxembourg as a Research Fellow.
Jan 2021: Invited talk at COMSATS University Islamabad on "Deep learning-based beamformer design".
Dec 2020: Been The Most Published Researcher in Duzce University in The Area of Natural Sciences and Engineering During 2019.
Nov 2020: Joint tutorial at COMSNETS 2021 with Dr. K.V. Mishra on "Learning-Based Beamforming for Radar and Communications"
May 2020: Joined Wireless Networks Lab at Koc University as a Postdoc, working on Machine learning for Vehicular Communications.
Feb 2020: Elevated to Senior Member Grade of IEEE.
Nov 2019: Accepted paper in IEEE TWC: Joint Antenna Selection and Hybrid Beamformer Design using Unquantized and Quantized Deep Learning Networks
Oct 2019: TPC Member for AISP 2019-International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing.
Oct 2019: Accepted paper in IEEE TVT: Hybrid Precoding for Multi-User Millimeter Wave Massive MIMO Systems: A Deep Learning Approach
Mar 2019: Demo on "Deep Sparse Antenna Array Selection And DOA Estimation" will be presented in ICASSP 2019.
Feb 2019: Technical Program Committee Member for SIU 2019.
Jan 2019: Technical Program Committee Member for DISP'19.
Jan 2019: Technical Program Committee Member for SampTA 2019.
Dec 2018: Appointed as Associate Editor for IEEE Access.
25.07.2017: Research project granted by TUBITAK (Turkish Scientific Research Council), "Development of Direction-Finding Methods Robust Against Systematical and Environmental Factors".
12.05.2017: Best thesis award received from Middle East Technical University for the Ph.D thesis: A. M. Elbir, "Direction Finding In The Presence of Array Imperfections, Model Mismatches and Multipath".
17.10.2016: Started working at the Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in Duzce University.
21.06.2016: Received Ph.D degree from the Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in Middle East Technical University.
09.05.2016: Best presentation award received from GRAD STaR 2016 for the paper: A. M. Elbir and T. E. Tuncer, "Direction Finding For Arbitrary Array Structures In The Presence of Mutual Coupling".