Izmir Institute of Technology

Faculty Member, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

About

Kivilcim Yüksel completed the M.S. degree in 2000 in Ege University (Izmir, Türkiye), Electronics Engineering Department, where she worked as a research assistant.

Afterward, she worked at Nortel Networks-Netas (Istanbul, Türkiye) as an optical research engineer.

Between 2002-2005 she was with Multitel asbl (Mons, Belgium), mainly involved in the project on monitoring methods based on OTDR (Optical Time Domain Reflectometry) technique for point-to-multipoint optical access networks.

She received a DEA (Diplôme d’études approfondies) and a Ph.D degree (Docteur en Sciences de l'Ingénieur) in fiber optics from the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (FPMs, Belgium) respectively in 2006 and in 2011.

Currently she works as an assistant professor at the Electronics Department  of Izmir Institute of Technology.

Her research topics lie in three main areas:

1. Optical fibre metrology, distributed and quasi-distributed optical fibre
sensors, fiber-based optical reflectometry,

2. Optical access networks, Passive Optical Networks (PONs), physical
layer monitoring of PONs, Fiber to the home (FTTH) technologies.

3. Development of innovative concepts for low cost train automatic control
systems based on telecommunication technologies (optical fiber,
wireless, hybrid, . . . )