Ulukus, Sennur

Research Interests
Wireless communication theory and networking, network information theory for wireless communications, signal processing for wireless communications, physical-layer information-theoretic security, and energy-harvesting communications
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Background
Sennur Ulukus is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she also holds a joint appointment with the Institute for Systems Research (ISR). Prior to joining UMD, she was a Senior Technical Staff Member at AT&T Labs-Research. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB), Rutgers University, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University. Her research interests are in wireless communication theory and networking, network information theory for wireless communications, signal processing for wireless communications, physical-layer information-theoretic security, and energy-harvesting communications.
Dr. Ulukus received the 2003 , the 2005 NSF CAREER Award, and the 2010-2011 ISR Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award. She served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory between 2007-2010, as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications between 2003-2007, as a Guest Editor for the Journal of Communications and Networks for the special issue on energy harvesting in wireless networks, as a Guest Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory for the special issue on interference networks, as a Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications for the special issue on multiuser detection for advanced communication systems and networks. She served as the TPC co-chair of the Communication Theory Symposium at the 2007 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, the Medium Access Control (MAC) Track at the 2008 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, the Wireless Communications Symposium at the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications, the 2011 Communication Theory Workshop, the Physical-Layer Security Workshop at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications, the Physical-Layer Security Workshop at the 2011 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference. She was the Secretary of the IEEE Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC) in 2007-2009.
Honors and Awards
Fellow
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2016
Young faculty awards
NSF CAREER for "A Network Information Theoretic Approach to Wireless Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks," 2005
Other awards
IEEE Marconi Paper Prize Award in Wireless Communications for the paper, "Wireless Systems and Interference Avoidance," 2003
Research Awards
- Robust and Secure Cognitive Radio Networks
- Delay Minimization in Wireless Networks
- Interactive Security
- Rechargable Networks
- NSF: Incentive Compatible Wireless Security
- NSF CIF: Foundations of Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications
- NSF Collaboative Research: Synergistic Exploitation of Network Dynamics and Knowledge Heterogeneity in Wireless Networks
- NSF Collaborative Research CT-ISG: Secure Capacity of Wireless Networks
- NSF: Correlation, Cooperation and Feedback (CCF) in Multi-user Wireless Communications
- ARL: Physical Layer Security for Wireless Communications
- ARO: Breaking the square-root barrier in covert communications
- NSF CIF: Alignment for Secrecy: One-Time-Pads in the Air without Keys
- NSF CCSS: Communicating with Implanted Energy Harvesting Devices under Temperature Constraints
Research Posters
- Fundamentally Secure and Sustainable Wireless Networks
- A New Achievability Scheme for the Relay Channel
- Effects of Cooperation on the Secrecy of Multiple Access Channels with Generalized Feedback
- A New Upper Bound for a Binary Additive Noisy Multiple Access Channel with Feedback
- Delay-Minimal Transmission for Energy Constrained Wireless Communications
- Standard and Quasi-Standard Stochastic Power Control Algorithms
- Capacity Region of Power Controlled Fading CDMA: Generalized Iterative Waterfilling
- Jointly Optimum Power and Signature Sequence Allocation for Fading CDMA
- Energy cooperation in energy harvesting wireless communications
- Wireless physical layer security
- Energy Harvesting Communications with System Costs