Dr. Beyza Ezgi Örtlek

Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, UK

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Dr. Beyza Ezgi Örtlek completed her high school education at Ankara Fen Lisesi in Ankara, Turkey. She received double major degrees (dual full diploma), a B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and a B.S. in Molecular Biology and Genetics, from Koç University, Türkiye. She recently completed her Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koç University under the supervision of Prof. Özgür Barış Akan. She is currently a Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Internet of Everything (IoE) Group at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK.

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Research Interests

  • Molecular Communications
  • Bio-inspired Nanonetworks
  • Communication and Information Theory
  • Internet of Everything (IoE)


Publications

  1. B. E. Ortlek and O. B. Akan, “Gut-Brain Axis as a Closed-Loop Molecular Communication Network,” to appear in IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications, 2025.
  2. B. E. Ortlek and O. B. Akan, “Modeling and Analysis of SCFA-Driven Vagus Nerve Signaling in the Gut-Brain Axis via Molecular Communication,” in IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications, doi: 10.1109/TMBMC.2025.3585798.
  3. M. Sahin, B. E. Ortlek and O. B. Akan, “Molecular Arithmetic Coding (MoAC) and Optimized Molecular Prefix Coding (MoPC) for Diffusion-Based Molecular Communication,” in IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 66-77, March 2025, doi: 10.1109/TMBMC.2024.3476197.
  4. D. Aktas, B. E. Ortlek, M. Civas, E. Baradari, A. S. Okcu, M. Whitfield, O. Cetinkaya, O. B. Akan, “Odor-Based Molecular Communications: State-of-the-Art, Vision, Challenges, and Frontier Directions,” in IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 2658-2692, Aug. 2025, doi: 10.1109/COMST.2024.3487472.
  5. M. Civas, M. Kuscu, O. Cetinkaya, B. E. Ortlek, O. B. Akan, “Graphene and Related Materials for the Internet of Bio-Nano Things,” APL Materials, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 080901, August 2023, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0153423.
  6. B. E. Ortlek, O. B. Akan, “Communication Theoretical Analysis of P-Cresol Signaling in Gut-Brain Axis with Autism Spectrum Disorder,” in IEEE ICC ’23, Rome, Italy, May 2023, doi: 10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279237.


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