D. Turgay Altilar received his Ph.D. degree in 2002 from Queen Mary, University of London. He was involved with several EU projects related to parallel multimedia processing during his Ph.D. research. He has been assigned as an Assistant Professor in 2003 at the Computer Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University. Dr. Altilar's research interests are related to wireless sensor networks, cognitive radio, real-time systems, pervasive computing, parallel, distributed and grid computing. The current research interests are routing protocol design in cognitive radio networks, data dissemination on multimedia sensor networks, MAC and routing protocol design for multichannel sensor networks, resource management Grid Computing and naturally tolerant parallel algorithm design and heterogeneous network based GPGPU computing. He has served as technical program committee chair, technical program committee member, session and symposium organizer, and workshop chair in several conferences. Dr. Altilar is a member of IEEE.
