Work Experience and Projects

💼 Industry Internships

CableLabs, Colorado, USA
Feb. 2025 – Apr. 2025

Integrated advanced propagation and channel models into a system-level simulator.
Validated simulation outputs against experimental data to improve reliability for next-gen broadband evaluations.

CableLabs, Colorado, USA
May 2024 – Aug. 2024

Designed advanced spectrum analysis setups for protocol-independent testing.
Conducted detailed evaluation of spectrum efficiency, identifying opportunities for dynamic sharing and coexistence.
Delivered results that informed industry best practices and regulatory discussions.

PAWR Project, North Carolina State University, NC, USA
Oct. 2022 – Present

Analyzed sub-6 GHz spectrum measurements in rural and urban scenarios.
Developed stochastic geometry models to characterize occupancy at varying UAV altitudes.
Contributed to altitude-aware spectrum sharing research relevant to Wi-Fi and non-terrestrial networks (NTNs).

NSF Project, North Carolina State University, NC, USA
Jan. 2022 – Sep. 2024

Formulated an optimization problem to maximize data rates in hybrid VLC/RF systems.
Derived closed-form expressions for VLC data rate and energy harvesting with random orientation.
Characterized outage probability in cooperative VLC/RF systems under orientation randomness.

TÜBİTAK, Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey
Jan. 2018 – Dec. 2021

Analyzed QBER and SKR of the BB84 QKD protocol in underwater turbulence.
Derived wave structure and secure key rate expressions for turbulent optical channels.
Proposed a multi-hop underwater QKD architecture to extend secure communication range.
Applied Monte Carlo simulations to model photon trajectories underwater.
Collaborated with NATO STO-CMRE on a tutorial paper in underwater QKD.