Dr Taskin Kocak
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Dr Kocak is away from the department for the 2009/10 academic year - he will return for the 2010/11 session.
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Taskin Kocak received B.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and in Physics (as a double major) both with Honours from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in 1996 as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University, Durham, NC, USA in 1998 and 2001, respectively. He was appointed as a Senior Lecturer in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department at University of Bristol in 2007. Currently, he works with a group of 5 PhD students and his research is supported by Toshiba Research Europe, Great Western Research, ClearSpeed and through an EPSRC DTA Studentship. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando, FL, USA from 2001 to 2007. While at UCF he graduated 2 Ph.D. and 5 M.S. students (still supervising 1 Ph.D. and 1 M.S. students) and received grants from US National Science Foundation, Northrop Grumman and Florida High-Tech Corridor. He worked as an Analog/Mixed-signal VLSI Design Engineer at the Semiconductor Division of Mitsubishi Electric America in Research Triangle Park, NC, USA from 1998 to 2000.
Research Interests
His research interests and expertise span the areas of VLSI hardware design, computer networks and communications. His current research focusses on hardware architectures for high-throughput wireless baseband processing. He has contributed significantly to the design and implementation of circuits, architectures and systems for computer communication networks. His primary work in this area includes a network processor design for a novel learning-based routing protocol, very high-throughput off-chip communications architectures for network line cards, low-power architectures for network forwarding tables and Bloom filter-based network intrusion detection systems. His projects in the wireless networks domain include the development of a novel scrambling algorithm that reduces the vulnerability of the wired equivalent privacy (WEP) security protocol used in the IEEE 802.11b wireless network standard and introduction of a cluster leader election algorithm for mobile ad hoc networks, which takes into consideration the direction of the overall traffic flow in the network to provide better load balancing. At Mitsubishi Semiconductor, he worked on mixed-signal data converter circuits primarily for communications. At UCF, he extended this work by introducing an architecture for analog-to-digital conversion using self-timed (asynchronous) logic paradigms.
He is the author of over 70 refereed journal and conference papers. He has founded and organized several workshops and special sessions in major international conferences on networking and communications hardware design. He serves on the editorial board of the Computer Journal published by the British Computer Society.
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Research Area
- Low-power mixed-signal (analog & digital) integrated circuit design
- Advanced networking and communications hardware design
- Communications and network processors
- Architectures for wireless baseband processing
- Co-processors (classification, search engine) and specialized offload engines
- Switch and router architectures
- Architectures for processor-memory interconnection and security applications
- Modeling and simulation software for computer communication networks
- Parallel and distributed computing – Grid computing