Personal Website of Huseyin Ugur Yildiz
About
Huseyin Ugur Yildiz received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2009, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, in 2013 and 2016, respectively.
Between 2010 and 2015, he worked at Turk Telekom, where he contributed to the design and operation of the Safer Internet Service, a nationwide content-filtering and parental-control platform used by more than five million subscribers. From 2015 to 2016, he was with Turkish Aerospace Industries, working on communication and network architectures for ANKA unmanned aerial vehicle systems. He joined the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at TED University in 2016, where he has been serving as an Associate Professor since 2021 and held the position of Department Chair from 2021 to 2024.
His research focuses on routing, resource allocation, and energy efficiency challenges in wireless ad hoc networks and underwater acoustic sensor networks, primarily through the development of optimization-based models. Recently, he has been advancing this framework by integrating mathematical optimization with reinforcement learning techniques. He is particularly interested in applying these hybrid optimization–learning methodologies to emerging paradigms such as quantum network routing, with an emphasis on hybrid classical–quantum architectures and the impact of physical constraints, including entanglement lifetime and network reliability, on routing and control decisions.
He has authored over 20 peer-reviewed journal articles with more than 1,000 citations, received the IEEE Middle East and North Africa Communications Conference 2019 Best Paper Award, and was elevated to IEEE Senior Member in 2021.
Research Interests
Network Technologies & Systems
Optimization & Operations Research
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Quantum Networking
Technical Toolbox
Programming & Scientific Computing
Optimization & Mathematical Modeling
Development
News
- 02/2026 Editorial published in Internet of Things (Elsevier), Special Issue on Mass Connectivity and Communication Paradigms for IoT.
- 12/2025 Çağla Tantur Karagül successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation at TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
- 11/2025 Conference paper presented at IEEE TELFOR 2025: “Non-uniform k-connectivity for energy-efficient and reliable underwater wireless sensor networks”.
- 10/2025 Journal paper published in IEEE Internet of Things Journal: “Mitigating energy cost of connection reliability in UWSNs through non-uniform k-connectivity”.
- 08/2025 Journal paper published in Computer Standards & Interfaces: “Enhancing drone network resilience: Investigating strategies for k-connectivity restoration”.
Archive
- 08/2025 Completed Reinforcement Learning Specialization (University of Alberta, Coursera).
- 06/2025 Completed Deep Learning Specialization (DeepLearning.AI, Coursera).
- 03/2025 Completed Machine Learning Specialization (DeepLearning.AI, Coursera).
- 10/2023 Journal paper published in IEEE Sensors Journal: “Joint effects of void region size and sink architecture on underwater WSNs lifetime”.
- 06/2023 Journal paper published in Ad Hoc Networks: “Exploring the tradeoff between energy dissipation, delay, and the number of backbones for broadcasting in wireless sensor networks through goal programming”.
- 12/2022 Muhammed Çobanlar successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation at TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
- 11/2022 Journal paper published in IEEE Internet of Things Journal: “On the trade-off between network lifetime and k-connectivity-based reliability in UWSNs”.
- 09/2022 Journal paper published in Ad Hoc Networks: “Reliability of linear WSNs: A complementary overview and analysis of impact of cascaded failures on network lifetime”.
- 04/2022 Burak Emre Ün successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis at TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
- 08/2021 Ceylan Aydın successfully defended her M.Sc. thesis at TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
- 07/2021 Appointed Chair of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, TED University.
- 04/2021 Elevated to IEEE Senior Member grade.
- 03/2021 Alper Özmen successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis at TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
- 11/2020 Promoted to Associate Professor (Doçent) by the Interuniversity Council of Turkey (ÜAK).
- 10/2019 Invited seminar at Georgia Institute of Technology: “Prolonging the Lifetime of Underwater Sensor Networks Under Sinkhole Attacks” (Host: Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz).
- 04/2019 Invited talk at IEEE SIU 2019 – Special Session: “Maximization of Underwater Sensor Networks Lifetime via Fountain Codes”.
- 02/2019 Invited seminar at ASELSAN Information and Communication Technologies Workshop: “Maximization of Underwater Sensor Networks Lifetime via Fountain Codes”.
- 04/2018 Yıldız Karakurt successfully defended her M.Sc. thesis at TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
- 08/2017 Çağla Tantur successfully defended her M.Sc. thesis at TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
- 09/2016 Appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at TED University.
- 04/2016 Successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation at TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
- 12/2015 Appointed as Avionics Design Engineer at Turkish Aerospace Industries, working on the ANKA Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Project.
- 12/2014 Invited seminar at The University of Texas at Dallas: “The Impact of Random Power Assignment in Handshaking on Wireless Sensor Network Lifetime” (Host: Prof. Murat Torlak).
- 01–02/2014 Invited seminar series at leading research universities in the USA and Canada on transmission power control and network optimization in wireless sensor networks (University of Rochester, SUNY Buffalo, USC, UC Irvine, Carleton University).
- 09/2013 Successfully defended my M.Sc. thesis at TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
- 10/2010 Started working as a Network Engineer at Türk Telekom.
- 08/2009 Received my B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University.