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.


Submitted Papers

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