Ayse Sila Okcu

Second-year PhD Student, University of Cambridge, UK

Ayse Sila Okcu

Ayse Sila Okcu received her B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, with a dual degree in Mathematics, from Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, in June 2024. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Prof. Ozgur Baris Akan. Her research interests include the Internet of Everything and bio-inspired communication systems, with specific interests in molecular communications, neural computations, and biological network modeling.


Research Interests

  • Odor-based Molecular Communication
  • Neural Computation
  • Biological Network Modeling


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.


Conference Papers

  1. A. S. Okcu, O. T. Baydas, and O. B. Akan, “Certified Characterization of Privacy, Participation, and Convergence in Over-the-Air Federated Learning,” in ICML AI4NextG Workshop: AI and ML for Next-Generation Wireless Communications and Networking, Seoul, South Korea, July 2026.
  2. O. T. Baydas, A. S. Okcu, and O. B. Akan, “Graph-Localized Offline Federated Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Networks,” in ICML AI4NextG Workshop: AI and ML for Next-Generation Wireless Communications and Networking, Seoul, South Korea, July 2026.
  3. A. S. Okcu and O. B. Akan, “PLOS-RS: Probabilistic Localization of Odor Sources via Random Search,” in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2026, Tokyo, Japan, May 2026.
  4. F. E. Bilgen, A. S. Okcu, O. T. Baydas, and O. B. Akan, “Internet of Intelligent Reflective Surfaces (IoIRS),” in Proc. IEEE PIMRC, Singapore, September 2026.
  5. A. S. Okcu, M. E. B., and O. B. Akan, “Physical Limits of Proximal Tumor Detection via MAGE-A Extracellular Vesicles,” in Proc. 10th International Workshop on Molecular Communications, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2026.


Submitted Papers

  1. A. S. Okcu, O. B. Akan, “Smell of Source: Learning-Based Odor Source Localization with Molecular Communication,” 2025.