FREDERIC KEREM  HARMANCI

Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng.
Boğaziçi  University,
 Bebek, 34362, Istanbul, Turkey
Phone: +212 359 6895
harmanci@boun.edu.tr

 

Research:

 

General area:       Statistical signal processing and sensor array processing.

 

Current areas:     Cellular phone positioning, microphone arrays, audio source separation, intrusion detection systems.

 

Research application areas to date:      Source localization for passive sonar in uncertain ocean environments, transform coding using wavelets for image compression, neural networks for detection and classification, over-the-horizon radar spread-Doppler clutter mitigation.

 

Education:

 

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, N.C., December 2001
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, N.C., 1996
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul,  Turkey, 1994
B.S., Mathematics, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1994

 

Professional Experience:

 

Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Electric and Electronic Eng., Boğaziçi University, 2003-now.

Lectured courses on statistical signal processing, sensor array processing, spectral estimation, adaptive filter theory, data compression, functions of a complex variable, introductory fiber optic communications, introductory electrical circuits.

 

Referee in academic journals, i.e. IEEE Trans. in Signal Processing, IEE electronics letters Elsevier Signal Processing, Elsevier Computer Communications and in conferences such as ICASSP, EUSIPCO, ICPR, SITIS.


Research Assistant  in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng., Duke University, 1994-2001

  • Discovered relations of minimum variance beamforming to maximum likelihood source localization theory,
  • Developped an algorithm for robust beamforming in broadband matched-field processing for underwater acoustic signal processing
  • Applied blind and adaptive temporal processing and blind multichannel system identification as well as iterative window design techniques to over-the-horizon radar (OTH-radar) signal processing
  • Applied neural networks to detection and classification problems

 

 

 

 

Academic Publications:

 

Journal papers:

  • Kerem Harmancı, Joseph Tabrikian and Jeffrey Krolik, " Relationships Between Adaptive Minimum Variance Beamforming and Optimal Source Localization", IEEE Transactions in Signal Processing, Volume 48, No.1, pg 1-12, January 2000.
  • Erol Gelenbe, Kerem Harmancı and Jeffrey Krolik, "Learning Neural Networks for Detection and Classification of Synchronous Recurrent Transient Signals", Signal Processing, Volume 64, No.3, pg. 233-247 February 1998.
  • Stacy L. Tantum, Loren W. Nolte, Jeffrey Krolik and Kerem Harmancı, "Matched-Field Source Tracking with SWELLEX-1 Data", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Volume 112, Issue.1 pg. 119-127, July 2002.


Conferences:

  • İsa Hacıoğlu, F. Kerem Harmancı, Emin Anarım, Hakan Deliç, “Time-of-Arrival Estimation Under Impulsive noise for Wireless Positioning Systems”,  EUSIPCO 2006, European Signal Processing Conference, September 2006
  • İsa Hacıoğlu, F. Kerem Harmancı, Emin Anarım, Hakan Deliç,  “Dürtün Gürültülü Ortamlarda FLOM-MUSIC Türü TOA Kestirimi”, SİU  2006, IEEE 14. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Kurultayı, Nisan 2006
  • Uzay E. Emir, Ceyhun B. Akgül, Ata Akın, Ayşin Ertüzün, Bülent Sankur, Kerem Harmancı “Wavelet Denoising vs. ICA Denoising for functional optical imaging”. Proc of the 1st International IEEE EMBS, Conference on Neural Engineering , pg. 384-387, March 20-22, 2003
  • Kerem Harmancı and Jeffrey Krolik, "Adaptive Temporal Processing for Equatorial Spread Doppler Clutter Suppression", Proc. of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing , ICASSP), June 2000.
  • Shawn Kraut, Kerem Harmancı and Jeffrey Krolik, " Over-the-Horizon Spread-Doppler Clutter Mitigation using STAP tchniques", Proceedings of SAM, First IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, March 2000
  • Kerem Harmancı and Jeffrey Krolik, "Matched Window Processing for Mitigating Over-the-Horizon Spread-Doppler Clutter", Proceedings of ICASSP, Vol. 5,  March 1999
  • Kerem Harmancı, Joseph Tabrikian and Jeffrey Krolik, "Maximum Likelihood Track-Before-Detect Matched Field Beamforming with SWELLEX Data", Proceedings of the 16th International Congress on Acoustics, Pg 1331-2, June 1998.
  • Kerem Harmancı and Jeffrey Krolik, "Robust Beamformer Weight Design for Broadband Matched Field Processing", Proceedings of ICASSP, Vol.1, Pg 471-4., March 1997
  • Kerem Harmancı, Emin Anarım, Hakan Çağlar, Bülent Sankur, "Two-Dimensional Nonseparable Linear Phase Perfect Reconstruction Filter Bank Design Based on Bernstein Polynomial Approximation", Proc. of the Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, Volume 2308, pg 994, September 1994

 

Computer skills:         MATLAB, Linux, Windows XP/2000,

 

Language skills:         Can speak fluently, read and write in English, French and Turkish.

 

Last updated, Dec 8, 2006.