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BIOGRAPHY

      Hakan Ali Cirpan received the B.S. degree in 1989 from Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey, the M.S. degree in 1992 from the University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, and the Ph.D. degree in 1997 from the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA, all in electrical engineering.
      From 1995-1997, he was a Research Assistant with the Stevens Institute of Technology, working on signal processing algorithms for wireless communication systems. In 1997, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering at The University of Istanbul. His general research interests cover wireless communications, statistical signal and array processing, system identification and estimation theory. His current research activities are focused on signal processing and communication concepts with specific attention to channel estimation and equalization algorithms for space-time coding and multicarrier(OFDM) systems.
       Dr. Cirpan received Peskin Award from Stevens Institute of Technology as well as Prof. Nazim Terzioglu award from the Research fund of The University of Istanbul. He is a Member of IEEE and Member of Sigma Xi.