Ahmet Burak Kilic

Final-year Master's Student, Koç University, Turkey

Ahmet Burak Kilic

Ahmet Burak Kılıç received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. He also completed a B.A. in Business Administration at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. He is currently pursuing his M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koç University under the supervision of Prof. Akan.


Research Interests

  • Odor-based Molecular Communication
  • Internet of Plants
  • Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC)


Publications

  1. A. B. Kilic, F. E. Bilgen, and O. B. Akan, “Channel Modeling and Experimental Validation of Odor-Based Molecular Communication Systems,” under revision; submitted to MolCom 2026.
  2. A. B. Kilic and O. B. Akan, “Physics-Informed Multi-Modal Localization of Stressed Plants in the Internet of Plants,” under revision; submitted to IEEE SECON 2026.
  3. A. B. Kilic and O. B. Akan, “Information and Communication Theoretical Foundations of the Internet of Plants, Principles, Challenges, and Future Directions,”, arXiv, 2025.
  4. A. B. Kilic, F. E. Bilgen, and O.B. Akan, “Precision Farming with the Internet of Everything,” to appear in Precision Technologies for Digital Agriculture: IoT, Big Data, Crop Modeling, and AI for Agricultural Excellence, Edited by Shushil Kumar Himanshu, Hemendra Kumar, Santosh S. Palmate.
  5. A. B. Kilic, and O. B. Akan, “End-to-End Mathematical Modeling of Stress Communication Between Plants,” IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications (Early Access), doi: 10.1109/TMBMC.2025.3626218, 2025.
  6. F. E. Bilgen, A. B. Kilic, O. B. Akan, “Odor Perceptual Shift Keying (OPSK) for Odor-based Molecular Communication,” IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1–12, March 2025.
  7. D. Aktas, B. E. Ortlek, M. Civas, E. Baradari, A. B. Kilic, F. E. Bilgen, A. S. Okcu, M. Whitfield, O. Cetinkaya, and O. B. Akan, “Odor-Based Molecular Communications: State-of-the-Art, Vision, Challenges, and Frontier Directions,” IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, doi: 10.1109/COMST.2024.3487472, 2024.