Dilara Aktas

Final-year PhD Student, Koç University, Turkey

Dilara Aktas

Dilara Aktas received her BS degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering in Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in June 2019. She is currently a research assistant at the Next-generation and Wireless Communications Laboratory and pursuing her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Akan at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey.


Research Interests

  • Molecular Communications
  • Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT)


Publications

  1. 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.
  2. D. Aktas, O. B. Akan, “Weight Shift Keying (WSK) with Practical Mechanical Receivers for Molecular Communications in Internet of Everything,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 40, no. 11, pp. 3285–3294, October 2022.
  3. D. Aktas, O. B. Akan, “A Mechanical Transduction-Based Molecular Communication Receiver for Internet of Nano Things (IoNT),” in Proc. ACM NanoCom 2021, Virtual Conference, September 2021.