Hi there, I'm

Furkan.

I am a Staff Research Scientist at Intel, working on advanced wireless and optical technologies for satellite communications. Previously, I took roles as a Postdoctocal Associate (Boston University /MIT), and as a 5G PHY Developer (Octasic Inc). I obtained my Ph.D. from McGill University.

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Latest News and Events

A mix of academic, professional and personal briefs on the most recent milestones.

February 2024

GLOBECOM 2024 Chair

Serving at the GLOBECOM 2024 Conference, as Technical Program Chair for Wireless Communications.

February 2024

Staff Research Scientist

I'll be working as a Staff Research Scientist at Intel Programmable Solutions Group, starting February 2024.

January 2024

First Patent Filed

One of my ideations is elected for a patent application at Intel.

December 2023

Innovation Corps Researcher

I've taken an initiative as a researcher in NSF I-CORPS at MIT to investigate the impact of generative AI in enterprises.

December 2023

Innovation Corps Researcher

I've taken an initiative as a researcher in NSF I-CORPS at MIT to investigate the impact of generative AI in enterprises.

December 2023

Divisional Recognition Award

Our efforts at Intels Labs is awarded with IDP Divisional Recognition Award for our work on reconfigurable satellites.

August 2023

Book Chapters Published

Two chapters, featuring our GRAND and ORBGRAND architectures led by S. M. Abbas, is now published in Springer.

June 2023

ORBGRAND Chip on the News

The ORBGRAND chip we succesfully fabricated was featured in BU News for its game-changing aspects.

June 2023

ORBGRAND Demo Presented at WoWMoM 2023

The results of our ORBGRAND chip was featured in WoWMoM 2023, hosted by Northeastern University.

March 2023

Panel Co-Chair of IEEE FNWF 2023

Join me in the panels of Future Networks World Forum 2023, in Baltimore, MD on November 13-15.

February 2023

ORBGRAND Presented at ISSCC 2023

The results of our ORBGRAND chip was featured in ISSCC 2023 this week in San Fransisco.

February 2023

ORBGRAND Chip Featured at MIT News

The results of our ORBGRAND chip was featured in MIT News this week.

January 2023

Accepted Paper

A core research from my postdoc, "GRAND-EDGE: A Universal, Jamming-resilient Algorithm with Error-and-Erasure Decoding" will be featured at ICC 2023 conference.

January 2023

Best Demo Award

Our work has received the Best Demo award at the COMSNETS 2023 Conference, that featured the first soft-decision universal decoder chip in the world.

January 2023

IEEE INFOCOM 2023 Chair

I will be serving as a Technical Program Chair for the IEEE INFOCOM 2023, on the 5G and Beyond Wireless Security track.

January 2023

IEEE VTC 2023 Chair

I will be serving as a Technical Program Chair for the Vehicular Technology Conference - Spring 2023, on ML/AI for Communications and Physical Layer Security tracks.

January 2023

Associate Editor | IEEE Communications Letters

I will be serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Communications Letters.

December 2022

New Role as a Research Scientist

I became a Research Scientist/Engineer at Intel Labs, to work on advanced wireless and optical communication technologies.

December 2022

GLOBECOM 2022 Chair

I will be serving at the GLOBECOM 2022 Conference, as a session chair for the 5G and Beyond Wireless Security Workshop.

November 2022

Lead Guest Editor | Sensors

I will be serving as the Lead Guest Editor for the special issue "VLSI Architectures for Wireless Communications and Digital Signal Processing".

October 2022

On Travel for IEEE FNWF 2022

Join me in person for the Future Networks World Forum 2022, in Montreal, QC on October 12-14.

October 2022

First Cybersecurity Paper Out

The most recent outcome of my postdoctoral work will be featured in GLOBECOM 2022 Workshops on Beyond-5G Wireless Security. Preprint here.

September 2022

IEEE VTC 2022 Chair

I will be serving as a Technical Program Chair for the Vehicular Technology Conference - Fall 2022, that will take place simultaneously in London, UK and Beijing, China.

May 2022

Invited Speaker

I am hosted by the SBU IEEE Student Branch for a talk on my Ph.D. research, featuring practical algorithms and implementations for 5G polar codes.

May 2022

IEEE Future Networks World Forum Chair

I will be serving as the Academia & Industry Demo Chair for the Future Networks World Forum 2022, that will take place in Montreal, QC on October 12-14.

April 2022

Faculty Seminar

I will be delivering a faculty seminar on my Ph.D. and Postdoctoral research, at Center for Information Systems Engineering of Boston University. Register here.

February 2022

Paper Published

Our latest paper on efficient hardware implementation of the ORBGRAND algorithm is now published in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems.

January 2022

Accepted paper at ICC 2022

Led by Arslan Riaz, our work "Interleaved Noise Recycling using GRAND" will be featured in ICC 2022, Seoul, South Korea.

November 2021

Postdoctoral Associate

It is with great pleasure that I have joined BU as a Postdoctoral Associate, in collaboration with MIT and Maynooth University.

October 2021

New Paper on GRAND

The extended version of our ICASSP 2021 paper on GRAND is now available as a preprint here.

October 2021

IEEE 5G World Forum Co-Chair

I will be serving as the Industry Demo/Exhibit Co-Chair for the 5G World Forum 2021, the flagship event of the IEEE Future Networks Initiative. Watch on-demand here.

September 2021

Invited Talk

I had the distinguished pleasure of delivering an invited talk on 5G polar codes at Bogazici University, Faculty of Engineering.

May 2021

Invited Talk

I will be giving a talk titled "High-Throughput does not Compromise Energy Efficiency: New Algorithms and Implementations for 5G Polar Codes" on May 6, 2021 4 PM EDT. Register here.

April 2021

Thesis Published

Titled "Algorithms and Implementations for Practical and Energy-Efficient Polar Decoders" my thesis is now available at McGill Library Catalogue.

January 2021

Accepted paper at ICASSP 2021

Our work titled "High-Throughput VLSI Architecture for Soft-Decision Decoding with ORBGRAND" will take place in the IEEE SPS flagship conference ICASSP 2021, Toronto.

January 2021

Accepted paper at ICC 2021

Our work titled "Fast SC-Flip Decoding of Polar Codes with Reinforcement Learning" will be featured in International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2021, Montreal.

January 2021

Vice-Chair of IEEE Montreal Section

I am thrilled to announce that I was elected for the Vice-Chair role for the IEEE Montreal Section Executive Committee. Exciting days ahead!

October 2020

5G PHY Algorithm Developer

I am recently recruited as a DSP Algorithm Developer for Octasic Inc. I will be working on 5G Wireless Protocol Systems from Matlab reference models to optimized embedded C/ASM implementations.

October 2020

Ph.D. Degree Granted

Following the defense on October 21, 2020, I have earned the Ph.D. degree after a five-year journey and a decade of dreaming!

September 2020

Accepted paper at IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Our paper titled "Practical Dynamic SC-Flip Decoders: Algorithm and Implementation" has been accepted in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and available on Early Access.

July 2020

Accepted paper at SiPS 2020

Our paper titled "High-Throughput VLSI Architecture for GRAND", first-authored by Dr. Syed Mohsin Abbas, has been accepted in IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS) 2020 Virtual Conference.

June 2020

Accepted paper at International Conference on Communications 2020

I will be participating at ICC 2020 as an author of an accepted paper. The conference will be performed virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 2020

IEEE ComSoc Student Travel Grant Award

I am thrilled to receive the prestigious IEEE ComSoc Student Travel Award for participating in ICC 2020. The format of the award has changed towards registration due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 2020

Accepted paper at 45th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

I will be participating at ICASSP 2020 as an author of an accepted paper. The conference will be performed virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

February 2020

Third Place Award in Quebec Engineering Competition (QEC) 2020

Upon receiving the first place award in McGill Engineering Competition, I was qualified to compete in the province of Quebec.

November 2019

First Place Award in McGill Engineering Competition (MEC) 2019

I have participated in the Graduate Research Track of MEC 2019 and have received the first place award.

October 2019

Published on IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Our work entitled "Energy-Efficient Hardware Architectures for Fast Polar Decoders" is now published on IEEE TCAS-I.

October 2019

Second Place Award in 6th IEEE Research Boost | "Give Your Research an Industrial Edge"

I have participated in the 6th IEEE Research Boost and have received the second place award.

July 2019

Happily Ever After

We performed a successful pull request with my partner in crime, who is an amazing Ph.D. candidate in Molecular Biology and Genetics.

July 2019

Out of Office for Mandatory Military Service

I had three weeks away from research during a three-week mandatory military service training in Manisa, Turkey.