ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR. HAKAN GÜRKAN ISIK University Engineerin Faculty Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department hakan@isikun.edu.tr 1. Name Surname : Hakan Gürkan 2. Birth Date : 04.02.1973 3. Title : Associate Professor 4. Education: Year Degree University Department 1990-1994 B. Sc. 1994-1998 M. Sc. 1998-2005 Ph. D. İstanbul Technical University İstanbul Technical University İstanbul Technical University Electronics and Telecommunication Department Electronics and Telecommunication Department Electronics and Telecommunication Department 5. Academic Title Year Title University Department 2009 2014 Assistant Professor Associate Professor ISIK University ISIK University Electrical-Electronics Engineering Electrical-Electronics Engineering 6. Supervised M. Sc. and Ph.D. Theses 6.1. M. Sc Theses 1. Funda Acar, Measurement of the Sea Parameters with MEMs Technology, Işık University, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, February, 2012.
2. Doğan Dalva, Automatic Speech Recognition for Turkish Spoken Language, ISIK University, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, May, 2012 (Co-advisor), (Advisor: Assist. Prof. Umit Guz). 3. İzel D. Revidi, Prosodic, Morphological and Lexical Feature Extraction of Turkish Broadcast News Data, ISIK University, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, June, 2014 (Co-advisor), (Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Umit Guz). 6.2. Ph. D. Theses 1. Doğan Dalva, Co-training Using Prosodic, Lexical and Morphological Information for Automatic Sentence Segmentation of Turkish Spoken Language, ISIK University,, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, (2014- cont.). (Co-advisor), (Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Umit Guz). 7. Publications 7.1. Peer Reviewed Journal Publications (Science Citation Index-SCI) 1. Hakan Gurkan, Compression of ECG Signals using Variable-Length Classified Vector Sets and Wavelet Transforms, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Springer (ISI), 2012:119, pp.1-17, 2012, Doi:10.1186/1687-6180-2012-119. 2. Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, Binboga Siddik Yarman, EEG Signal Compression Based on Classified Signature and Envelope Vector Sets, International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, Special Issue on Bridging technology innovations to foundations, John WILEY & Sons (ISI), Vol.37, Issue 2, pp.351-363, March 2009, Doi:10.1002/cta548. 3. Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, Binboga Siddik Yarman, Modelling of Electrocardiogram Signals Using Predefined Signature and Envelope Vector Sets, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (EURASIP JASP), Hindawi (ISI), Special issue on Advances in Electrocardiogram Signal Processing and Analysis, Volume 2007, Article ID. 12071, Doi: 10.1155/2007/12071, pp.1-12, 2007, 4. Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, Binboga Siddik Yarman A New Method to Represent Speech Signals via Predefined Signature and Envelope Sequences, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (EURASIP JASP), Hindawi (ISI), Special Issue on Advances in Subspace-Based Techniques for Signal Processing and Communications, Volume 2007, Article Id. 56382, Doi: 10.1155/2007/56382, pp.1-17, 2007,. 5. B. Siddik Yarman, Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, On the Comparative Results of SYMPES: A New Method of Speech Modeling, AEU, International Journal
of Electronics and Communications, Elsevier (ISI), Volume 60, Issue 6, pp.421-427, June 2006, Doi: 10.1016/j.aeue.2005.08.003. 6. B. Siddik Yarman, Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, Birep Aygun, A New Modeling Method of the ECG Signals Based on the Use of an Optimized Predefined Functional Database, Acta Cardiologica (ISI), An International Journal of Cardiology, Vol.58 (3), Brief Communications pp.273-275, June 2003. 7.2. Peer Reviewed International Journal Publications - 7.3. Peer Reviewed International Conference Proceedings 1. Dogan Dalva, Izel D. Revidi, Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, Extraction and Comparison of Various Prosodic Feature Sets on Sentence Segmentation Task for Turkish Broadcast News Data, Proceedings of the IEEE JCSSE, 11 th International Joint Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, pp. 70-73, May 14-16, 2014, Thailand. 2. Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. Sıddık Yarman, A Novel Biometric Authentication Approach Using Electrocardiogram Signals, Proceedings of the IEEE EMBC 2013, 35 th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, July 3-7, 2013, Osaka, Japan. 3. Inci Zaim Gokbay, Murat Gezer, Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. Sıddık Yarman, Compression of the CT Images Using Classified Energy and Pattern Blocks, Proceedings of the IEEE EMBC 2013, 35 th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, July 3-7, 2013, Osaka, Japan. 4. Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. Sıddık Yarman, A Novel Human Identification System basedon Electrocardiogram Features, Proceedings of the IEEE ISSCS 2013, 11 th International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems, July 11-12, 2013, Iase, Romain. 5. Burak Sisman, Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. Sıddık Yarman, A New Speech Coding Algorithm using Zero Cross and Phoneme Based SYMPES, Proceedings of the IEEE ISSCS 2013, 11 th International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems, July 11-12, 2013, Iase, Romain. 6. Inci Zaim Gokbay, Murat Gezer, Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. Sıddık Yarman, A Novel Computed Tomography Image Compression Method Based on Classified Energy and Pattern Blocks, Proceedings of the IEEE ISSCS 2013, 11 th International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems, July 11-12, 2013, Iase, Romain. 7. Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. Sıddık Yarman, A Novel Image Compression Method Based on Classified Energy and Pattern Blocks: Initial Results,
Proceedings of the IEEE ISCIS 2010, IEEE 25 th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, pp.283-288, ISBN:978-90-481-9793-4, September 22-24, 2010, London, United Kingdom. 8. Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. Sıddık Yarman, A Novel Hybrid Electrocardiogram Signal Compression Algorithm with Low Bit-Rate, Proceedings of the IEEE ISCIS 2010, IEEE 25 th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, pp.95-98, ISBN:978-90-481-9793-4, September 22-24, 2010, London, United Kingdom. 9. Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. Sıddık Yarman, A Novel Noise Robust and Low Bit Rate Speech Coding Algorithm, Proceedings of the IEEE ISCIS 2009, IEEE 24th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, pp.471 474, DOI:10.1109/ISCIS.2009.5291876, September 14-16, 2009, Guzelyurt, KKTC. 10. Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. S. Yarman, A New Algorithm for High Speed Speech and Audio Coding, Proceedings of the IEEE ECCTD 2007, IEEE 18 th European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, pp.180-183, August 26-30, 2007, Seville, SPAIN. 11. Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, EEG Signal Compression Based on Classified Signature and Envelope Vector Sets, Proceedings of the IEEE ECCTD 2007, IEEE 18 th European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, pp.420-423, August 26-30, 2007, Seville, SPAIN. 12. Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. S. Yarman, A Novel Fast Algorithm for Speech and Audio Coding, Proceedings of the IEEE ISCAS 2007, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp.4020-4023, May 27-30, 2007, New Orleans, USA. 13. Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. Siddik Yarman, A New Speech Modeling Method: SYMPES, Proceedings of the IEEE ISCAS 2006, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp.1860-1863, May 21-24, 2006, Kos, GREECE. 14. Ümit Güz, Hakan Gürkan, B. S. Yarman, A New Coding Method for Speech and Audio Signals, Proceedings of the EURASIP EUSIPCO 2005, 13 th European Signal Processing, Conference Digest-CD, pp.1-4, September 4-8, 2005, Antalya, TURKEY. 15. Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, An Efficient ECG Data Compression Technique Based on Predefined Signature and Envelope Vector Banks, Proceedings of the IEEE ISCAS2005, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol.II, pp.1334-1337, May 23-26, 2005, Kobe, JAPAN. (This paper is supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, TUBITAK-BIDEB). 16. Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. S. Yarman, A Novel Method to Represent the Speech Signals by Using Language and Speaker Independent Predefined
Functions Sets, Proceedings of the IEEE ISCAS 2004, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol.III, pp.457-460, May 23-26, 2004, Vancouver, CANADA. 17. Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, A Novel Representation Method for ElectroMyoGram (EMG) Signals with Predefined Signature and Envelope Functional Bank, Proceedings of the IEEE ISCAS 2004, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol.IV, pp.69-72, May 23-26, 2004, Vancouver, CANADA. 18. Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, Hakan Gurkan, A New Word Recognition Algorithm by Using Signature and Envelope Feature Spaces, Proceedings of the IEEE ECCTD 2003, IEEE 16 th European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, Vol.III, pp.161-164, September 1-4, 2003, Kraków, POLAND. 19. B. S. Yarman, Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, Birep Aygun, A New Modeling Method of the ElectroCardioGram (ECG) Signals Based on the Use of an Optimized Predefined Functional Database, Proceedings of the Brief Communications of the International Society of Non-Invasive Cardiology, 19 th European Congress, pp. 59-61, May 8-10, 2003, Istanbul, TURKEY. 20. Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, Modeling of EEG Signals by Using Predefined Functional Bases, Proceedings of the EMBEC 2002, 2 nd European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference, Proceedings of the International Federation for Medical & Biological Engineering, pp.440-441, December 4-8, 2002, Vienna, AUSTRIA. 21. B. S. Yarman, Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, Birep Aygun, A Novel Method to Represent ECG Signals via Predefined Personalized Signature and Envelope Functions, Proceedings of the EMBC 2001, 23 rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vol.III, pp.2150-2153, October 25-28, 2001, Istanbul, TURKEY. 22. Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, Hakan Gurkan, A New Method to Represent Speech Signals via Predefined Functional Bases, Proceedings of the IEEE ECCTD 2001, IEEE 15 th European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, Vol.II, pp.5-8, August 28-31, 2001, Espoo, FINLAND. 7.4. Book Chapters - 7.5. Peer Reviewed National Journal Publications -
7.6. Peer Reviewed National Conference Proceedings 1. Dogan Dalva, Izel D. Revidi, Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, Extracting the Prosodic Information for Turkish Broadcast News Data and Using on the Sentence Segmentation Task, Proceedings of 22 nd IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference (SIU2014), pp. 1810-1813, April 23-25, 2014, Karadeniz Technical University (KTU), Trabzon, Turkey. 2. Inci Zaim Gokbay, Murat Gezer, Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. Sıddık Yarman, Hadi Sasani, CT Modalite ile Görüntülenen Meme Kanseri Verilerinin Önceden Tanımlı Enerji ve Yapı Öbekleri ile Modellenmesi, Tıp Teknolojileri Ulusal Kongresi, TIPTEKNO 13, pp. 1-4, Ekim 31- Kasım 2, 2013, Antalya, Turkiye. 3. Inci Zaim Gokbay, Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. Sıddık Yarman, A Novel Approach on Compressing Medical Images: SYMPES, 9 th Turkish Medical Informatics Conference TurkMIC 12, Innovation in Healt Informatics, pp. 55-64, November 15-17, 2012, Antalya, Belek, Turkey. 4. Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, A Novel Electroencephalogram (EEG) Data Compression Technique, Proceedings of 16 th IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference (SIU2008), pp. 1-4, April 20-22, 2008, Middle East Technical University (METU), Didim, Turkey. 5. Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. S. Yarman, A Novel Language and Speaker Independent Method for the Modeling of the Speech Signals by using Signature and Envelope Function Sets, Proceedings of ELECO 2004, National Symposium on Electrical-Electronics and Computer Engineering, pp. 279-283, December 8-12, 2004, Bursa, Turkey. 6. Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, Compression of the ElectroCardioGram (ECG) Signals by using Signature and Envelope Vector Banks, Proceedings of ELECO 2004, National Symposium on Electrical- Electronics and Computer Engineering, pp.274-278, December 8-12, 2004, Bursa, Turkey. 7. Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. S. Yarman, Definition of A New Isolated Word Recognition Algorithm by using Predefined Signature and Envelope Vector Banks, Proceedings of 11 th IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference (SIU2003), pp.1-4, June 18-20, 2003, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey. 8. Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, Modeling of the ElectroMyoGram (EMG) Signals by using Unique Signature and Envelope Vector Banks, Proceedings of 11 th IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference (SIU2003), pp.628-631, June 18-20, 2003, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey. 9. Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. S. Yarman, Optimum Modelling of the Speech Signals with Generalized Speaker Independent Predefined Basic Sound and
Envelope Vector Banks, Proceedings of ELECO 2002, National Symposium on Electrical-Electronics and Computer Engineering, pp.333-337, December 18-22, 2002, Bursa, Turkey. 10. Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, Modeling of the ElectroCardioGram (ECG) Signals with Generalized Signature and Envelope Vector Banks, Proceedings of ELECO 2002, National Symposium on Electrical-Electronics and Computer Engineering, pp.343-347, December 18-22, 2002, Bursa, Turkey. 11. Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. S. Yarman, A New Approach for Determination of the Optimum Signature and Envelope Functions, Proceedings of the IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference (SIU2002), Vol.2, pp.691-696, June 12-14, 2002, Denizli, Turkey. 12. Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, A New Approach for the Modeling of the EEG (ElectroEncephaloGram) Signals by using Optimum Base Functions, Proceedings of IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference (SIU2002), Vol.2, pp.1204-1209, June 12-14, 2002, Denizli, Turkey. 13. Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. S. Yarman, A Novel Approach for the Modeling of the Speech Signals by using Two Based Look-up Tables, Proceedings of IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference (SIU2001), Vol.2, pp.693-698, April 25-27, 2001, Gazi Magusa, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. 14. Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, Modeling of the ECG (ElectroCardioGram) Signals with Unique Base Functions, Proceedings of IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference (SIU2001), Vol.2, pp.587-592, April 25-27, 2001, Gazi Magusa, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. 15. Rafet Akdeniz, Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. S. Yarman, Modeling of the Speech Signals with Base Sequences Generated from Different Sound Sources, Proceedings of IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference (SIU2001), Vol. 1, pp. 128-133, April 25-27, 2001, Gazi Magusa, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. 7.7. Other Publications -
8. Research Projects 1. TUBITAK 1001 Project 111E228 Co-training Using Prosodic, Lexical and Morphological Information for Automatic Sentence Segmentation of Turkish Spoken Language (Bürünsel, Sözcüksel ve Biçimbilgisel Bilgiyi Kullanan Co-Training ile Türkçe Konuşma Dilinin Otomatik Cümle Bölütlemesi) Assoc. Prof. Ümit Güz The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) TUBITAK-ARDEB 1001 01.03.2012 31.02.2015 170.680 TL 2. TUBITAK Career Project 107E182 Extracting and Using Prosodic Information for Turkish Spoken Language Processing (Türkçe Dil İşleme için Bürünsel Bilginin Çıkarılması ve Kullanılması) Assist. Prof. Ümit Güz The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) TUBITAK - ARDEB CAREER 3501 01.02.2008 01.02.2010 (completed) 88666 TL 3. Scientific Research Project () 14A201 A New Low Bitrate Speech Coding Algorithm using Zero Cross and Phoneme Based SYMPES. Assoc. Prof. Ümit Güz 2014 2016 29500 TL
4. Scientific Research Project () 14A203 Fingertip ECG Signal Based Biometric Recognition System (Parmak Ucu EKG İşareti Tabanlı Biyometrik Tanıma Sistemi) Assoc. Prof. Hakan Gürkan 2014 2016 20000 TL 5. Scientific Research Project () 10A301 Feature Extraction from Electrocardiogram (ECG) Signals for Biometric Recognition (Biyometrik Tanıma için Elektrokardiyogram (EKG) İşaretlerinden Öznitelik Çıkarımı) Assist. Prof. Hakan Gürkan 31.01.2010 31.01.2013 (completed) 8000 TL 6. Scientific Research Project () 10B301 Image Compression using Classified Energy and Pattern Blocks (Sınıflandırılmış Enerji ve Örüntü Blokları ile İmge Sıkıştırma) Assist. Prof. Ümit Güz 31.07.2010 31.01.2012 (completed) 8000 TL
7. Scientific Research Project () 09A301 Automatic Sentence Segmentation with Semi- Supervised Learning Algorithms using Prosodic and Lexical Information (Bürünsel ve Sözlüksel Bilginin Yarı Öğreticili Öğrenme Algoritmaları ile Otomatik Cümle Bölütlemesi için Kullanılması) Assist. Prof. Ümit Güz 30.04.2009 31.10.2011 (completed) 8800 TL 8. Scientific Research Project () 06B302 A Novel ECG Modeling Technique using Classified Signature and Envelope Vector Sets (Sınıflandırılmış Tanım ve Zarf Vektör Setleri ile EKG İşaretlerinin Modellenmesi) Assist. Prof. Hakan Gürkan 2007 2009 (completed) 9700 TL 9. Scientific Research Project () 05B304 Natural Language Understanding in Human/Human and Human/Machine Spoken Dialogs (İnsan-İnsan, İnsan-Makine Sözlü İletişiminde Doğal Dil Anlama) Assist. Prof. Ümit Güz 2006-2007 (completed) 6000 TL
10. Scientific Research Project () 400/03062005 A Mathematical Model for Electrocardiogram (ECG) Signals (Elektrokardiyogram (EKG) İşaretleri için Bir Matematiksel Model) Prof.Dr. B. Sıddık Yarman Istanbul University Research Fund 2005-2006 (completed) 13284 TL 9. Administrative s and Employment History 9.1. Administrative s 1. ISIK University, Vice Chairman of Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (2013- cont.) 2. ISIK University, Engineering Faculty, Member of Faculty Administrative Board (2014-cont.) 3. ISIK University, Technology Transfer Office, Member of Board (2014-cont. ) 4. ISIK University, Apollon Solar Car Racing Team, Academic Advisor (2010- cont.) 5. ISIK University, Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department, Graduate Program Admission Committee Member (2012-cont. ). 6. ISIK University Ethics Committee Member (2011-cont.) 9.2. Employment History Year Title Institution Faculty/Department 1998-2005 Research Assistant ISIK University Electronics Engineering 2005-2009 Instructor ISIK University Electronics Engineering 2009-2014 Assistant Professor ISIK University Electrical-Electronics Engineering 2014- Associate Professor ISIK University Electrical-Electronics Engineering 10. Scientific and Professional Memberships 1. Institute of Electrical Electronics Engineers (IEEE) member 11. Awards and Honours -
12. Courses Taught (Last Three Years) Academic Year 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 Semester Course T PS Lab Students Fall EE441 Digital Electronics 3 0 0 18 EE225 Electrical Circuits 3 1 0 24 EE482 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering 3 0 0 10 Spring EE444 Microprocessor based System Design and Control 3 0 0 24 MATH 230 Probability 3 0 0 23 Summer EE335 Electronics 3 1 0 11 EE441 Digital Electronics 3 0 0 15 EE225 Electrical Circuits 3 1 0 39 Fall EE551 Adaptive Signal 3 0 0 7 Processing Spring EE444 Microprocessor based System Design and Control 3 0 0 23 EE482 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering 3 0 0 16 Fall EE330 Electronics I 3 1 0 31 EE441 Digital Electronics 3 0 0 6 EE444 Microprocessor based Spring System Design and Control 3 0 0 18 BME354 Biosignal Processing 2 0 2 6 13. Other Academic and Scientific Activities 13.1. Reviewer Activities (SCI-Expanded Journals) 1. EURASIP JASP Journal on Applied Signal Processing 2. The Journal of the Franklin Institute-Engineering and Applied Mathematics 3. The Computer Journal 4. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine 5. Signal, Image and Video Processing 6. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 13.2. Reviewer Activities (Non SCI-Expanded Journals) 1. Research Letters in Signal Processing 13.3. Reviewer Activities 1. WSEAS (The World Scientific Engineering Academy and Society) 2. TIPTEKNO
3. TUBITAK-ARDEB 4. TUBITAK-TEYDEB 13.4. Editorship (SCI-Expanded Journal) 1. Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences 13.5. International/National Conference Technical Program Committee Memberships 1. 2 nd National Workshop on Complex Dynamical Systems and Their Applications, ISIK University, Istanbul, Turkey, October 24-26, 2013 (Local Organizing Committee Member). 2. 10 th National Mathematics Symposium, ISIK University, Istanbul, Turkey, September 21-23, 2011 (Program Committee Member). 3. EMO, The Senior Design Project Competition Awards, Member of Review Board (2010-cont). 4. IEEE ISCIS 2009 International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, METU Northern Cyprus Campus, 2009 (Special Session on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Co-Chair). 5. IEEE SIU 2002 Sinyal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Denizli, Turkey, 2002 (Technical Program Committee Member).