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Sirin Tekinay, PhD

Sirin Tekinay, PhD	Sirin Tekinay, PhD, an associate professor in the electrical and computer engineering department, is the program director for the Theoretical Foundations Cluster in the National Science Foundation’s Division of Computing and Communication Foundations. Tekinay seeks scientific researchers with fresh ideas, to unify theorists and practitioners and to encourage and fund joint, interdisciplinary research projects. Her research interests include wireless systems such as cellular systems, local area networks, radio networks, intelligent displays as well as sensors and computer communications. She also researches mobility-enhanced services to deliver information in the wireless environment that is user-specific, time-specific, and location-specific in various media such as text, audio and video. By making use of mobility and location information of users, Tekinay's research improves network functions such as routing and broadcasting. She has adopted mathematical approaches from microeconomics, especially game theory, traditionally been used to predict the stock market, and is applying these models to estimating mobility, information needs, bandwidth and the power needs of wireless users. Her paper, “Power Efficiency of User Cooperation in Multi-hop Wireless Networks,” was published in IEEE Communications Letters. She holds eight patents involving wireless geo-location systems. Her most recent patent, awarded in May 2007, was for detecting the geographical location of wireless units. She is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and serves on the editorial boards of the IEEE Communications Magazine and the IEEE Communications Surveys. Tekinay was the recipient of NJIT’s Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award in 2003. She received her PhD in electrical and computer engineering from George Mason University in 1994 and holds MS (1991) and BS (1989) degrees in electrical engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. Updated 11/07/07

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