Ozan Aygun

Bio

I have received my B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University in 2020 and 2022 with high honors, respectively. I am currently working towards my Ph.D. degree at the ECE Department of NYU Tandon under the supervision of Prof. Elza Erkip.

My research interests include, but not limited to, machine learning, wireless communications, and network optimization.

experience

Graduate

• Software Intern - Apple Inc., San Diego, CA. | 05/2024 - 10/2024.

• Communications Systems Research Intern - Sharp Labs of America, Remote. | 06/2023 - 09/2023.

undergraduate

• Engineering Intern - Meteksan Defense, Ankara, Turkey. | 06/2018 - 07/2018.

• Engineering Intern - Aselsan Defense, Ankara, Turkey. | 06/2017 - 07/2017.

Publications

conference proceedings

• O. Aygün, M. Kazemi, D. Gündüz, T.M. Duman, "Hierarchical over-the-air federated edge learning", in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2022, Seoul, South Korea, May 2022.

• O. Aygün, M. Kazemi, D. Gündüz, T.M. Duman, "Over-the-air federated learning with energy harvesting devices", in IEEE GLOBECOM 2022, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dec 2022.

Journals

• O. Aygün, M. Kazemi, D. Gündüz, T.M. Duman, "Over-the-air federated edge learning with hierarchical clustering", in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2024.

THESIS

• O. Aygün, "On federated learning over wireless channels with over-the-air aggregation", Bilkent University, July 2022.

Awards & Scholarships

• NYU Tandon SoE Fellowship, New York University, 2022.

• 5G and Beyond Joint Graduate Support Programme Scholarship, Turkcell Inc., 2020.

• Comprehensive Scholarship Student, Bilkent University, 2017.