EMRAH AKYOL
CV
 E-mail: eakyol@ece.ucsb.edu
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in Signal Compression Lab  at UC Santa Barbara. My research interests are in communications (specifically energy efficient and delay constrained communications) and signal processing.
I received my B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2003 and the M.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2005, under supervision of Profs. Murat Tekalp and Reha Civanlar. I was with HP Labs and NTT Docomo Labs  during 2006 and 2007. I recently received my Ph.D. degree (2011) from the Signal Compression Lab at UC Santa Barbara. My dissertation was on delay and complexity constrained communications under the supervision of Prof. Kenneth Rose.

Journal Publications:
  1. E. Akyol and K. Rose, Towards Optimality in Transform Coding, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, in review
  2. E. Akyol and K. Rose, On Constrained Randomized Quantization, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, in review
  3. E. Akyol, K. Rose, and T. Ramstad, On Analog Mappings for Joint Source-Channel Coding, IEEE Transactions on Communications, in review 
  4. E. Akyol, K. Viswanataha, and K. Rose, On Conditions for Linearity of Optimal Estimation, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, to appear [Full Text]
  5. E. Akyol and M. van der Schaar, Compression-Aware Energy Optimization for Video Decoding Systems with Passive Power, IEEE Transactions on Circuits Systems for  Video Technology, vol.18,  no. 9 Sept 2008  pp.1300-1306, 2008 [Full Text]
  6. E. Akyol  and M. van der Schaar, Complexity Model Based Proactive Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Video Decoding Systems, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 1475-1492, 2007 [Full Text]
  7. E. Akyol, A. M. Tekalp, and M.R. Civanlar, A flexible multiple description coding framework for adaptive peer-to-peer video streaming, IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Proc., vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 231-245,  2007  [Full Text]
  8. E. Akyol, A. M. Tekalp, and M. R. Civanlar, Content-aware scalability type selection for rate adaptation of scalable video, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2007, Article ID 10236, 11 pages,  2007 [Full Text]
Patent:    E. Akyol, D. Mukherjee, "Scaling the Complexity of Video Encoding", 2008 [Full Text] 

Conference Publications:
  1. E. Akyol and K. Rose, Towards Optimality in Multiterminal Transform Coding,  IEEE Data Compression Conference 2012 [Full Text]
  2. E. Akyol and K. Rose, On Constrained Randomized Quantization,  IEEE Data Compression Conference 2012 [Full Text]
  3. K. Viswanataha, E. Akyol, and K. Rose, A Strictly Improved Achievable Region for Multiple Descriptions Using Combinatorial Message Sharing, Proc. of IEEE  Information Theory Workshop  Oct  2011  [Full Text]
  4. K. Viswanataha, E. Akyol, and K. Rose, An Optimal Transmit-Receive Rate Tradeoff in Gray-Wyner Network and Its Relation to Common Information, Proc. of IEEE  Information Theory Workshop  Oct  2011[Full Text]
  5. E. Akyol and K. Rose, A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Transform Optimality in Source Coding, Proc. of IEEE Int. Symposium on Information Theory  Aug  2011 [Full Text]
  6. K. Viswanataha, E. Akyol, and K. Rose, Combinatorial message sharing for a refined multiple descriptions achievable region, Proc. of IEEE Int. Symposium on Information Theory  Aug  2011 [Full Text]
  7. K. Viswanataha, E. Akyol, and K. Rose, An achievable rate region for distributed source coding and dispersive information routing, Proc. of IEEE Int. Symposium on Information Theory  Aug  2011 [Full Text]
  8. E. Akyol, K. Viswanataha, and K. Rose, On Multidimensional Optimal Estimators: Linearity Conditions, Proc. IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, June 2011[Full Text]
  9. E. Akyol, K. Viswanataha, and K. Rose, On Conditions for Linearity of Optimal Estimation, Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Aug 2010 [Full Text]
  10. K. Viswanataha, E. Akyol, and K. Rose, On Optimum Communication Cost for Joint Compression and Dispersive Information Routing, Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Aug 2010 [Full Text]
  11. K. Viswanataha, E. Akyol, S. Ramaswamy, and K. Rose, Distributed source coding and dispersive information routing: An integrated approach with networking and database applications, European Signal Processing Conference 2010 [Full Text]
  12. K. Viswanataha, E. Akyol, and K. Rose, Towards Optimum Cost in Multi-hop Networks with Arbitrary Network Demands, IEEE Int. Symposium on Information Theory Feb 2010 [Full Text]
  13. E. Akyol, K. Rose, and T. Ramstad, Optimized Analog Mappings for Distributed Source Channel Coding, Proc. IEEE Data Compression Conference, 2010 [Full Text]
  14. E. Akyol, K. Rose, and T. Ramstad, Optimal Mappings for Joint Source Channel Coding, Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop, 2010 [Full Text]
  15. E. Akyol, K. Rose, On Transform Coding with Dithered Quantizers, Proc. IEEE Data Compression Conference, 2009 [Full Text]
  16. E. Akyol and K. Rose, Nonuniform Dithered Quantization, Proc.  IEEE Data Compression Conference 2009 [Full Text]
  17. E. Akyol, O.G. Guleryuz, M.R.Civanlar, Royalty Cost Based Optimization for Video Compression, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, 2007  [Full Text]
  18. E. Akyol, D. Mukherjee, and Y. Liu, Complexity Control for Real Time Video Coding, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, 2007  [Full Text]
  19. E. Akyol and M. van der Schaar , Buffer Constrained Proactive Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Video Decoding Systems, IProc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing 2007 [Full Text]
  20.  E. Akyol, M. Tekalp, and R.Civanlar, Adaptive Peer to Peer Video Streaming with Flexible Multiple Description Coding, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing 2006 [Full Text]
  21. E. Akyol, M.Tekalp, and R.Civanlar, Optimum Bit Allocation in Scalable Multiple Description Video Coding" Proc. European Signal Processing Conference 2005 [Full Text]
  22. E. Akyol, M. Tekalp, and R. Civanlar, Scalable Multiple Description Video Coding with Flexible Number of Descriptions, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, 2005 [Full Text]
  23. E. Akyol, M. Tekalp, and R. Civanlar, Optimum Scaling Operator Selection in Scalable Video Coding, Proc. Picture Coding Symposium, 2004 [Full Text]
  24. E. Akyol, M. Tekalp, and R. Civanlar, "Motion Compensated Temporal Filtering Within the H.264/AVC Standard", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, 2004 [Full Text]