Prof. Tolga Mete Duman, Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant.
Prof. Duman will be using the five-year funding provided by the council for his research project named “TRANCIDS: Transmission over Channels with Insertions and Deletions.” The project will take on the grand challenge of addressing the effects of insertions and deletions caused by synchronization errors over various communication channels by developing theoretical limits of transmission and by designing practical channel coding solutions approaching these limits. The project builds upon Dr. Duman’s extensive experience in physical layer communications, information theory, and channel coding/modulation, specifically, his previous work on basic insertion and deletion channels. The findings of the project will highly impact different emerging applications such as DNA storage and beyond 5G wireless communications.