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Tolga M. Duman

Tolga M. Duman

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Turkey
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
41
Citations
7266
World Ranking
4279
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Turkey Leader Award
  • 2011 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to coding and modulation for wireless, recording and underwater acoustic channels

Overview

Tolga M. Duman is affiliated with Bilkent University in Turkey and has developed a substantial body of work primarily in the fields of Engineering and Computer Science. Their research spans several subfields, including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics explored in their work include Wireless Communication Security Techniques, Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization, Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies, Cooperative Communication and Network Coding, Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies, and Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Blind Federated Edge Learning" (2021) published by IRIS UNIMORE (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
  • "Towards goal-oriented semantic signal processing: Applications and future challenges" (2021) published in Digital Signal Processing
  • "Next Generation Advanced Transceiver Technologies for 6G and Beyond" (2025) published in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • "Unsourced Random Access with a Massive MIMO Receiver Using Multiple Stages of Orthogonal Pilots" (2022) presented at the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
  • "Hierarchical Over-the-Air Federated Edge Learning" (2022) presented at ICC 2022 - IEEE International Conference on Communications

Duman has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, notably Mohammad Kazemi with 19 joint publications, Büşra Tegin with 13, Deniz Gündüz with 8, Mohammad Javad Ahmadi with 8, and Mert Özateş with 6.

Their works are frequently published in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University) with 24 papers, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications with 13 papers, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications with 5 papers, IEEE Communications Letters with 5 papers, and the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) with 3 papers.

In recognition of their contributions to the domain, Tolga M. Duman was named an IEEE Fellow in 2011 for work related to coding and modulation in wireless, recording, and underwater acoustic channels.

Best Publications

  • Turbo-coded modulation for systems with transmit and receive antenna diversity over block fading channels: system model, decoding approaches, and practical considerations

    A. Stefanov;T.M. Duman

  • Coding for MIMO Communication Systems

    Tolga M. Duman;Ali Ghrayeb

  • High-Rate Communication for Underwater Acoustic Channels Using Multiple Transmitters and Space–Time Coding: Receiver Structures and Experimental Results

    S. Roy;T.M. Duman;V. McDonald;J.G. Proakis

  • Adaptive OFDM Modulation for Underwater Acoustic Communications: Design Considerations and Experimental Results

    Andreja Radosevic;Rameez Ahmed;Tolga M. Duman;John G. Proakis

  • Antenna selection for multiple-antenna transmission systems: performance analysis and code construction

    I. Bahceci;T.M. Duman;Y. Altunbasak

  • Performance analysis of MIMO systems with antenna selection over quasi-static fading channels

    A. Ghrayeb;T.M. Duman

  • Smart antenna system analysis, integration and performance for mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs)

    S. Bellofiore;J. Foutz;R. Govindarajula;I. Bahceci

  • New performance bounds for turbo codes

    T.M. Duman;M. Salehi

  • Low Density Parity Check Codes over Wireless Relay Channels

    Jun Hu;T.M. Duman

  • Capacity-approaching turbo coding and iterative decoding for relay channels

    Zheng Zhang;T.M. Duman

  • Turbo coded modulation for wireless communications with antenna diversity

    Andrej Stefanov;Tolga M. Duman

  • Mitigation of Intercarrier Interference for OFDM Over Time-Varying Underwater Acoustic Channels

    K Tu;D Fertonani;T M Duman;M Stojanovic

  • Capacity Approaching Turbo Coding For Half-Duplex Relaying

    Zheng Zhang;Tolga M. Duman

  • Multiple-Resampling Receiver Design for OFDM Over Doppler-Distorted Underwater Acoustic Channels

    Kai Tu;T. M. Duman;M. Stojanovic;J. G. Proakis

  • Cooperative underwater acoustic communications [Accepted From Open Call]

    S. Al-Dharrab;M. Uysal;T. M. Duman

  • Combined turbo coding and unitary space-time modulation

    I. Bahceci;T.M. Duman

  • Performance bounds for turbo-coded modulation systems

    T.M. Duman;M. Salehi

  • Decentralized detection over multiple-access channels

    T.M. Duman;M. Salehi

  • Turbo codes and turbo coded modulation systems: analysis and performance bounds

    Masoud Salehi;Arvin Grabel;Tolga Mete Duman

  • Error Rate Improvement in Underwater MIMO Communications Using Sparse Partial Response Equalization

    S. Roy;T.M. Duman;V.K. McDonald

  • Correction to "Antenna selection for multiple-antenna transmission systems: performance analysis and code construction"

    Israfil Bahceci;Tolga M. Duman;Yucel Altunbasak

Frequent Co-Authors

Ali Ghrayeb
Ali Ghrayeb Hamad bin Khalifa University
John G. Proakis
John G. Proakis Northeastern University
Milica Stojanovic
Milica Stojanovic Northeastern University
Yucel Altunbasak
Yucel Altunbasak Georgia Institute of Technology
Andreas Spanias
Andreas Spanias Arizona State University
Murat Uysal
Murat Uysal New York University Abu Dhabi
Constantine A. Balanis
Constantine A. Balanis Arizona State University
Mazen O. Hasna
Mazen O. Hasna Qatar University
Nan Zhao
Nan Zhao Dalian University of Technology
Cihan Tepedelenlioglu
Cihan Tepedelenlioglu Arizona State University

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