Melih Sahin

  • First-year PhD Student
Melih Sahin

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About

Melih Sahin is a Ph.D. student in Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He joined the Internet of Everything (IoE) Group in October 2025 and is supervised by Prof. Akan. He received an M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with thesis in 2025 and a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering with a Mathematics minor and an AI track in 2024 at Koç University, after his first year of undergraduate studies at KAIST. His notable distinctions include an Intel ISEF 4th place Grand Award in Mathematics in 2018. His research interests cover Information Theory, Coding Theory, and Molecular Communication.

Research

  • Molecular Communication
  • Coding Theory
  • Information Theory


Journal Papers

  1. M. Sahin and O. B. Akan, "Run-Length-Limited ISI-Mitigation (RLIM) Coding for Molecular Communication," IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications, 2026.
  2. M. Sahin, B. E. Ortlek, O. B. Akan, “Molecular Arithmetic Coding (MoAC) and Optimized Molecular Prefix Coding (MoPC) for Diffusion-Based Molecular Communication,” IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 66–77, March 2025.

Submitted Papers

  1. M. Sahin and O. B. Akan, "Local Differential Privacy for Molecular Communication Networks," submitted to IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, 2026.
  2. M. Sahin and O. B. Akan, "Low-Complexity Run-Length-Limited ISI-Mitigation (RLIM) Codes for Molecular Communication," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications, 2026.