Dr. Evsen Yanmaz leads the NAS Lab. She received the B.S. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2000; the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, Amherst, NY in 2002; and the Ph. D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA in 2005. Her doctoral thesis was on dynamic load balancing in wireless networks. From November 2006 to October 2008, she held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computer, Computational, & Statistical Sciences Division at the Los Alamos National Laboratory of Department of Energy, where she worked on the design and development of self-organizing wireless networks with a focus on the impact of mobility and topology changes on the network performance. Between 2008 and 2018, she was with the Mobile Systems Group in the Networked and Embedded Systems Institute of University of Klagenfurt as a senior researcher and Lakeside Labs GmbH as Project Lead. Since September 2018, she is with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Ozyegin University. Her research interests include design and analysis of drone networks, cooperative networks, coordination algorithms for Internet of Things and self-organization.

Graduate Students

Hamid Majidi

Buse Inc

Former Members

Islam Guven (MSc graduate)

Kadircan Kara (MSc graduate)

Atefeh Molaei (MSc graduate)

Berke Cecen (Undergrad)

Naz Arisoy (Undergrad)