Irmak Özvarış

Academic background

Irmak Ozvaris holds a B.Sc. (2015) and M.Sc. (2019) degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Hacettepe University and Middle East Technical University respectively. Her B.Sc. research focused on transceiver design for MIMO systems using D-BLAST, and M.Sc. research focused on polar codes; specifically its performance over fading binary symmetric channels, and convergence to Reed Muller codes.

Research profile

Irmak Ozvaris is enrolled in the Ph.D. program in the Signal Processing Systems group as a member of the Information and Communication Theory Lab. Her research focuses on Forward Error Correction (FEC) decoding algorithms for the fiber optic communication.

Affiliated with

Information and Communication Theory Lab (ICT Lab), Signal Processing Systems (SPS), Department of Electrical Engineering

Education and Teaching

Communication Theory, Applications of Information Theory

Experience

Senior R&D Engineer at Advanced Technologies Research Institute (ILTAREN) of The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) between 2016-2021.

Education/Academic qualification

Electrical engineering, Master, Middle East Technical University (METU)

Sept 2015 → May 2019

Electrical engineering, Bachelor, Hacettepe University

Sept 2011 → Jun 2015

SHY-FEC: Shaped Hybrid Forward Error Correction
Alvarado, A. (Project Manager), Lee, J. (Project member), Gültekin, Y. C. (Project member), de Jonge, M. (Project communication officer), Sanders, R. (Project communication officer), Barreiro, A. (Project communication officer), de Jonge, M. (Project member) & Özvarış, I. (Project member)
1/01/21 → 31/12/22
Project: Research direct