Caglar Koca

PhD Student, University of Cambridge, UK

Caglar Koca

Caglar Koca joined the IoE group as a PhD student in 2017. Previously he completed his B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with a double major in Physics at Middle East Technical University. He holds an M.Sc. degree from Koç University in Electrical and Electronics Engineering as well. His primary research interest is the ICT foundation of the evolution of glutamatergic receptors.


Research Interests

  • Internet of Things
  • Molecular Communications
  • Information Theory
  • Quantum Information Theory
  • ICT-based Diagnosis/Treatment Techniques
  • Age of Information


Key Publications

  1. C. Koca, O. B. Akan, “Channel Clearance by Perfectly Absorbing Boundaries in Synaptic Molecular Communications”, IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 121480–121493, November 2022.

  2. C. Koca, M. Civas, S. M. Sahin, O. B. Akan, “Molecular Communication Theoretical Modeling and Analysis of SARS-CoV2 Transmission inside Human Body”, IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 153–164, April 2021.

  3. C. Koca, O. B. Akan, “Cooperation vs Anarchy in Internet of Molecular Things,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 1445–1453, October 2017.


Journal Papers

  1. C. Koca, M. Ozger, O. Cetinkaya, O. B. Akan, “Information-Theoretic Lifetime Maximization for IoBNT-Enabled Sensing,” IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications, April 2025.

  2. C. Koca, M. Civas, O. B. Akan, “Evolutionary Game Theoretic Resource Allocation Simulation for Molecular Communication”, ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies, vol. 2, no. 3, July 2021.

  3. C. Koca, M. Civas, O. B. Akan, “Information Theoretic Modeling of Paranodal Regions in Myelinated Axons”, ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies, vol. 2, no. 3, July 2021.

  4. O. Cetinkaya, E. Dinc, C. Koca, G. V. Merrett, O. B. Akan, “Energy-neutral Wireless-powered Networks,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 1373–1376, October 2019.

  5. O. B. Akan, O. Cetinkaya, C. Koca, M. Ozger, “Internet of Hybrid Energy Harvesting Things,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 736–746, April 2018.


Conference Papers

  1. C. Koca, O. B. Akan, “A Fast Simulation Algorithm for Molecular Dispersion and Binding in Molecular Communications” in Proc. ACM NanoCom, September 2023.

  2. C. Koca, M. Civas, O. B. Akan, “Narrow escape problem in synaptic molecular communications” in Proc. ACM NanoCom, October 2022.

  3. C. Koca, E. Dinc, H. Ramezani, O. B. Akan, “Performance Analysis for Capacitive Electrical Neural Interfaces,” in Proc. IEEE NANO 2018, Cork, Ireland, July 2018.

  4. H. Ramezani, C. Koca, O. B. Akan, “Rate Region Analysis of Multi-Terminal Neuronal Nanoscale Communication Channel,” in Proc. IEEE NANO 2017, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, July 2017.

  5. C. Koca, O. B. Akan, “Quantum Memory Management Systems,” in Proc. ACM NanoCom 2015, Boston, MA, USA, September 2015.


Submitted or In-Preparation Papers

  1. C. Koca, O. B. Akan, “A Robust and Realistic Model of Partially Absorbing Boundaries” to be submitted to Physical Review E, May 2026.