Berk Birand

Berk Birand Ph.D. Candidate Department of Electrical Engineering Columbia University Contact Information

About

I am a PhD student in Professor Gil Zussman’s group. My research interests are in wireless network optimizations, distributed scheduling algorithms and joint optimizations of fiber and wireless networks. Some of the conferences that I am interested in are listed here.

For more information, you can look at my resume or my contact information.

My public PGP key is also available.

Research

• Cross-layer optimization

• Throuhgput maximization in various network topologies

• Fiber-wireless convergence

Publications

Conference

1. B. Birand, M. Chudnovsky, B. Ries, P. Seymour, G. Zussman and Y. Zwols, “Analyzing the Performance of Greedy Maximal Scheduling via Local Pooling and Graph Theory,” Proc. IEEE INFOCOM’10, Mar. 2010, PDF

1. Hammouri, G., Öztürk, E., Birand, B., and Sunar, B. 2008. Unclonable Lightweight Authentication Scheme. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, Lecture Notes In Computer Science, DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88625-9_3

Journal

1. Karakoyunlu, D., Yoo, S-H, Birand, B., and Sunar, B. Pre-print. A Robust and Practical Random Number Generator. Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems.

Technical Report

1. B. Birand, M. Chudnovsky, B. Ries, P. Seymour, G. Zussman and Y. Zwols, Analyzing the Performance of Greedy Maximal Scheduling via Local Pooling and Graph Theory, Columbia University Electrical Engineering Technical Report 2009-07-30, PDF

Posters

1. B. Birand, C. P. Lai, H. Wang, G. Zussman and K. Bergman, Fiber-Wireless Convergence - Cross-Layer Design Approach CIAN Poster PDF

Courses

• Network Optimizations

• Deterministic Models

• Stochastic modeling

• Computer Networks

• Analysis of Algorithms

• Graph Theory

Previous Projects

• WPI EE Senior Thesis - True Random Number Generation using Physically Unclonable Functions
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• WPI CS Senior Thesis - Mobile Shopping Assistant PDF

• WPI Suffiency Project - Pilgrim Benefice Heritage Report PDF

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Columbia University

• B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science, 2008, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Teaching

Teaching assistant for:

• ELEN 3801 Continuous Time Systems and Signals (Fall 2008)

• COMS 4119 Computer Networks (Spring 2009)

Links

• Jemdoc: Simple templating script used for creating this page.