Ayse Sila Okcu

  • Second-year PhD Student
Ayse Sila Okcu

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About

Ayse Sila Okcu received her B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, with a dual degree in Mathematics, from Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, in June 2024. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Prof. Ozgur Baris Akan. Her research interests include the Internet of Everything and bio-inspired communication systems, with specific interests in molecular communications, neural computations, and biological network modeling.

Research

  • Molecular Communications
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Communication Networks

Journal Papers

  1. Dilara Aktas, Beyza E. Ortlek, Meltem Civas, Elham Baradari, Ahmet B. Kilic, Fatih E. Bilgen, Ayse S. Okcu, Melanie Whitfield, Oktay Cetinkaya, and Ozgur B. Akan, "Odor-Based Molecular Communications: State-of-the-Art, Vision, Challenges, and Frontier Directions," IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. PP, no. PP, pp. 1–1, 2024.

Conference Papers

  1. A. S. Okcu, M. E. B., and O. B. Akan, "Physical Limits of Proximal Tumor Detection via MAGE-A Extracellular Vesicles," in Proc. 10th Workshop on Molecular Communications, 2026.
  2. A. S. Okcu and O. B. Akan, "PLOS-RS: Probabilistic Localization of Odor Sources via Random Search," in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2026, Tokyo, Japan, May 2026.

Submitted Papers

  1. A. S. Okcu and O. B. Akan, "Physics-Informed Odor Source Localization with Molecular Communication," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, submitted for publication, March 2026.
  2. A. S. Okcu, O. T. Baydas, and O. B. Akan, "Private and Robust Biochemical Sensing-Based Diagnostics for the Internet of Medical Things," IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, submitted for publication, March 2026.
  3. A. S. Okcu, M. E. Bas, and O. B. Akan, "Physical Limits of Proximal Tumor Detection via MAGE-A Extracellular Vesicles," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications, 2025.
  4. F. E. Bilgen, A. S. Okcu, O. T. Baydas, and O. B. Akan, "Internet of Intelligent Reflective Surfaces (IoIRS)," submitted to Internet of Things Magazine, 2025.
  5. A. S. Okcu, O. B. Akan, "Smell of Source: Learning-Based Odor Source Localization with Molecular Communication", 2025.