Ayse Sila Okcu
- Second-year PhD Student
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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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A. S. Okcu, O. B. Akan, "Smell of Source: Learning-Based Odor Source Localization with Molecular Communication", 2025.