Aykut Koç

"There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind." Napoleon Bonaparte

"Quel massacre! Et sans resultat!" Marshal Ney - victoriously riding over the battlefield after the Battle of Eylau

Address:	Stanford University
	School of Engineering
	Department of Electrical Engineering
	Stanford, CA 94305
	USA
Office:	Electrical Engineering
	Center for Integrated Systems
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	420 Via Palou Mall
	Stanford, CA 94305
	USA
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	Stanford, CA 94305
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Biography

Aykut Koç was born in Eskisehir, Turkey in 1982. After receiving High School Diploma from Eskisehir Kilicoglu Anatolian High School, he studied Electrical & Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University and obtained his Bachelor of Science (B.S) degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering in May 2005. Throughout his senior year of undergraduate studies he studied under the supervision of Professor Haldun M. Ozaktas on the development of efficient signal processing algorithms and worked as a TA to the faculty. He obtained the Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 2007. He held a Fellowship from Stanford University, Department of Electrical Engineering for 2005-2006 Academic Year. Currently, he is a Ph.D Candidate in Electrical Engineering Department of Stanford University under the principal supervision of Professor Lambertus Hesselink and associate supervision of Professor Peter Peumans. He is a member of Hesselink Research Group with a Research Assistant (RA) position. His current research is on Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) Bio-Sensing. He is working to model and develop nanostructured surfaces to obtain enhanced biosensor performance measures. Such high-performance biosensors with very high sensitivity are extremely required to detect proteins, biological molecules and agents, several biological and chemical reactions as well as detecting biological and chemical weapon agents. The major application areas of such devices include medical, biological, chemical sciences, proteomics, genetics and homeland security.

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Areas of Interest

Optics, Nanophotonics and Nanotechnology: Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) Bio-Sensing, modeling and developing nanostructured surfaces to obtain high-performance biosensors.
Signal Processing and Fourier Optics: Fast algorithms for Linear Canonical Transforms and Quadratic Phase Integrals.

Publications - Refereed Journal Articles

A. Koç, H. M. Ozaktas, C. Candan, and M. A. Kutay, “Digital Computation of Linear Canonical Transforms” -In Press- Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
H. M. Ozaktas, A. Koç, I. Sari, and M. A. Kutay, "Efficient computation of quadratic-phase integrals in optics," Opt. Lett. 31, 35-37 (2006).

Publications - Conference Papers

A. Koç, X. Yin, L. Hesselink, "Phase Detection Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor in Infrared with Increased Sensitivity and Dynamic Range," Proceedings of IEEE/LEOS-OSA Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2007) and the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science (QELS 2007), Baltimore, Maryland, USA (6-11 May 2007).

Projects and Some Papers

A paper on EU's Security Concerns regarding Turkey and Turkey's Accession Process to EU: IR
A project paper on the application of Microeconomics to History: Feeding the Cavalry

Personal Interests

Since I have no time to include here some cool stuff about my personal interests like Napoleonic Era, History, Dostoyevski or Contract Bridge, I decided to include some photos of mine for the time being. I hope I will have some time for a real deal.

Some Photos
Quotes from Waterloo
A Great Poem from Cahit Kulebi
My "What if?" scenario about Waterloo


Courses Taken at Bilkent (Undergraduate Level)


Courses Taken at Stanford (Graduate Level)

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