Ibrahim Pehlivan

Hello, I am a second-year PhD student at the CORES Lab.

My research interests include applications of True Time Delay (TTD) phased arrays for wireless communications, beamforming and beamtraining for near-field channels and near-field localization and tracking.

Education

  • PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2022-Present
  • PhD (Discont.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC, U-C, IL, 2020 – 2022
  • MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2019
  • BS, Mathematics, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2017
  • BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2017

CORES Publications

D. Zhao, I. Pehlivan, A. Wadaskar and D. Cabric, “Fast Frequency-Direction Mapping Design for Data Communication With True-Time-Delay Array Architecture, ” 2024 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications: Signal Processing for Communications (ICNC’24 SPC)
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Structured Two-Stage True-Time-Delay Array Codebook Design for Multi-User Data CommunicationCode book Design for Multi - User Data Communication," GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2023, pp. 3378-3384, doi: 10.1109/GLOBECOM54140.2023.10437220.
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Other Publications

Journal Papers:

  • I. Pehlivan and S. Coleri, “Joint Optimization of Energy Transfer Scheduling and Power Control in MIMO Wireless Powered Communication Networks,”in IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 593-597, March 2020.
  • I. Pehlivan and S. C. Ergen, “Scheduling of Energy Harvesting for MIMO Wireless Powered Communication Networks,” in IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 152-155, Jan. 2019.

Conference Papers:

  • I. Pehlivan and S. Coleri, “Effect of Downlink Energy Transfer Scheduling on SDMA and TDMA Uplink Transmission,” 2021 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom), 2021, pp. 1-5.

Google Scholar [Link]

Awards

  • UCLA Departmental Fellowship
  • Magna Cum Laude – Undergraduate
  • TUBITAK – BIDEB 2205 Undergraduate Scholarship

CORES Projects

  • Sub-band-Multiplexed Multi-User Data Communication in mmWave and THz with Analog True Time Delay Arrays [Link]
  • Localization, Beamtraining and Subcarrier to Location Mapping for Near-Field Channels with TTD Arrays [Link]

Teaching Experience

UCLA

  • EE 102 Systems and Signals (Summer 23)
  • EE 113 Digital Signal Processing (Winter 24)

UIUC

  • ECE 420 Embedded DSP Laboratory (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)

Industry Experience

  • ASELSAN Electronics Industry and Trade Inc., MGEO Division, Avionic Systems, Ankara, 2016 Summer
  • Netaş Telekomunikasyon AS, Istanbul, 2014 Summer

Contact

LinkedIn [Link]

ipehlivan[at]ucla[dot]edu