Biography

Tolga Girici (Senior Member, IEEE) received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Türkiye, in 2000, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, in 2007. He was an intern at Intelligent Automation Inc., MD, USA, in 2005. Between 2006 and 2007, he was a student researcher at College Park Fujitsu Laboratories, MD, USA. From 2007 to 2024, he served as a professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at TOBB University of Economics and Technology, where he also chaired the department from 2016 to 2024. He is currently on leave from TOBB University and is a lecturer at Middlesex University, London, UK. Over his career, he has completed several research projects funded by the government and industry. He has published over 100 research articles in journals and conferences. His research interests include next-generation wireless communications, MIMO, aerial base stations, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, and integrated sensing and communications. 

Teaching

2023–24 academic year, 

1) Analogue Electronics (Undergraduate, 30 credits) 

2) Intelligent Environments and IoT (Postgraduate, 15 credits) 

3) Intelligent Sensing for Robotics (Postgraduate, 15 credits). 

2024–25 academic year

1) PDE3802 AI in Robotics (Undergraduate, 30 credits) 

2) MSO3255 Neural Networks and Deep Learning (Undergraduate, 30 credits) 

3) PDE4434 Intelligent Sensing for Robotics (Postgraduate, 15 credits)