Ahmet Samil DEMIRKOL demirkola@itu.edu.tr

Address: Istanbul Technical University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Faculty Department of Electronics Engineering, Room: 1105 Maslak, Istanbul, TURKEY Phone: +90 212 285 67 31 Date of Birth: 12.04.1983 Nationality: Turkish Citizen

EDUCATION

2007-Present Ph.D. Student in Electronics Engineering Program,

Istanbul Technical University

2005-2007 M.Sc. Degree in Electronics Engineering Program,

Istanbul Technical University

Thesis: Chaotic Oscillator Input ADC Based Random Number Generator

Thesis Advisor: Prof. Dr. Serdar OZOGUZ

2001-2005 B.Sc. Degree in Electronics Engineering Program,

Istanbul Technical University

Graduating Project: Literature Search on Current Mode Digital/Analog

Converters

Advisor: Prof.Dr. M. Sait Turkoz

1998-2001 Istanbul Ataturk Science High School, Istanbul/TURKEY

WORK EXPERIENCE

12/2005- Present Research and Teaching Assistant at Istanbul Technical University

09/2006-09/2008 Researcher in the project named “Integrated circuit realization of continuous

time chaotic oscillators and their applications in random number generations”

founded by TUBITAK

06–08/2004 Summer internship at Barcelona University, Barcelona/Spain

06–08/2003 Summer internship at Arcelik R&D, Istanbul/Turkey

LANGUAGES AND COMPUTER SKILLS

Languages: Turkish (native), English (advanced), German (beginner)

Engineering: OrCad Pspice, Cadence Design Environment, MATLAB, C, Dynamics Solver

HONOURS

06/2007 Siemens Excellence Award due to M.Sc. Thesis

05/2005 54^th among 0.13 million students

The Entrance Examination for Graduate Studies (LES)

12/2004 27^th among 0.13 million students

The Entrance Examination for Graduate Studies (LES)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Random Number Generators, Analog Implementations of Neuron Models, Nonlinear Dynamics

PERSONAL INTERESTS

Chess, table-tennis, swimming, basketball