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title Hüseyin Uğur Yıldız | Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at TED University
description Associate Professor of Electrical & Electronics Engineering at TED University. Operations research and mathematical optimization for wireless, underwater, and drone-assisted networks.
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Portrait of Hüseyin Uğur Yıldız

Hüseyin Uğur Yıldız

Associate Professor & IEEE Senior Member Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering TED University (external) Ankara, Türkiye — campus location on the map (external)

Optimization for resilient networked systems under physical constraints.

I develop optimization-based models for routing, resource allocation, and energy efficiency in wireless ad hoc, underwater acoustic, and drone-assisted networks, increasingly combined with machine learning, reinforcement learning, and hybrid classical–quantum network routing.

  • Operations Research
  • Network Optimization
  • Machine Learning
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Underwater Acoustic Networks
  • Internet of Things
  • UAV Networks
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Biography

Huseyin Ugur Yildiz received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University (external), Ankara, Turkey, in 2009, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from TOBB University of Economics and Technology (external), Ankara, in 2013 and 2016, respectively.

Between 2010 and 2015, he worked at Turk Telekom (external), where he contributed to the design and operation of the Safer Internet Service, a nationwide content-filtering and parental-control platform used by more than five million subscribers. From 2015 to 2016, he was with Turkish Aerospace (external), where he was involved in the development and integration of communication and network architectures for ANKA unmanned aerial vehicle systems. He joined the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at TED University (external) in 2016, where he has been serving as an Associate Professor since 2021 and held the position of Department Chair from 2021 to 2024.

He has authored over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers, which have accumulated more than 1,000 citations. He received the IEEE Middle East and North Africa Communications Conference 2019 Best Paper Award and was elevated to IEEE Senior Member in 2021.

Current research program

Network technologies & systems

  • Ad Hoc Networks
  • Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
  • Internet of Things
  • Drone Networks
  • Smart Grids

Optimization & operations research

  • Linear Programming
  • Mixed-Integer Programming
  • Constraint Programming
  • Multi-Objective Optimization
  • Network Flow Programming
  • Meta-Heuristics (SA/GA)

Artificial intelligence & machine learning

  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Neural Networks
  • Proximal Policy Optimization
  • Graph Neural Networks

Quantum networking

  • Entanglement Routing

News

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  • Dec 2025Çağla Tantur Karagül (external) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation at TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
  • Nov 2025Conference paper presented at IEEE TELFOR 2025: “Non-uniform k-connectivity for energy-efficient and reliable underwater wireless sensor networks”.
  • Oct 2025Journal paper published in IEEE Internet of Things Journal: “Mitigating energy cost of connection reliability in UWSNs through non-uniform k-connectivity”.
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  • Aug 2025Journal paper published in Computer Standards & Interfaces: “Enhancing drone network resilience: Investigating strategies for k-connectivity restoration”.
  • Jul 2025Editorial published in Internet of Things (Elsevier), Special Issue on Mass Connectivity and Communication Paradigms for IoT.
  • Aug 2025Completed Reinforcement Learning Specialization (external) (University of Alberta, Coursera).
  • Jun 2025Completed Deep Learning Specialization (external) (DeepLearning.AI, Coursera).
  • Mar 2025Completed Machine Learning Specialization (external) (DeepLearning.AI, Coursera).
  • Oct 2023Journal paper published in IEEE Sensors Journal: “Joint effects of void region size and sink architecture on underwater WSNs lifetime”.
  • Jun 2023Journal paper published in Ad Hoc Networks: “Exploring the tradeoff between energy dissipation, delay, and the number of backbones for broadcasting in wireless sensor networks through goal programming”.
  • Dec 2022Muhammed Çobanlar successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation at TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
  • Nov 2022Journal paper published in IEEE Internet of Things Journal: “On the trade-off between network lifetime and k-connectivity-based reliability in UWSNs”.
  • Sep 2022Journal paper published in Ad Hoc Networks: “Reliability of linear WSNs: A complementary overview and analysis of impact of cascaded failures on network lifetime”.
  • Apr 2022Burak Emre Ün (external) successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis at TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
  • Aug 2021Ceylan Aydın successfully defended her M.Sc. thesis at TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
  • Jul 2021Appointed Chair of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, TED University.
  • Apr 2021Elevated to IEEE Senior Member grade.
  • Mar 2021Alper Özmen (external) successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis at TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
  • Nov 2020Promoted to Associate Professor (Doçent) by the Interuniversity Council of Turkey (ÜAK).
  • Oct 2019Invited seminar at Georgia Institute of Technology: “Prolonging the Lifetime of Underwater Sensor Networks Under Sinkhole Attacks” (Host: Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz).
  • Apr 2019Invited talk at IEEE SIU 2019 – Special Session: “Maximization of Underwater Sensor Networks Lifetime via Fountain Codes”.
  • Feb 2019Invited seminar at ASELSAN Information and Communication Technologies Workshop: “Maximization of Underwater Sensor Networks Lifetime via Fountain Codes”.
  • Apr 2018Yıldız Karakurt (external) successfully defended her M.Sc. thesis at TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
  • Aug 2017Çağla Tantur (external) successfully defended her M.Sc. thesis at TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
  • Sep 2016Appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at TED University.
  • Apr 2016Successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation at TOBB University of Economics and Technology.

Selected publications

Selected for citation impact, external recognition, fit with the research program, and recency. The full list is unfiltered.

Packet size optimization in wireless sensor networks for smart grid applications (external)

Kurt, S., Yildiz, H. U., Yigit, M., Tavli, B., & Gungor, V. C. · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2017 Q1Most cited

Utilization of multi-sink architectures for lifetime maximization in underwater sensor networks (external)

Yildiz, H. U. · IEEE MENACOMM, 2019 Best Paper Award

Maximization of underwater sensor networks lifetime via fountain codes (external)

Yildiz, H. U. · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2019 Q1

Mitigating energy cost of connection reliability in UWSNs through non-uniform k-connectivity (external)

Tantur Karagul, C., Akgun, M. B., Yildiz, H. U., & Tavli, B. · IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2025 Q1

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Software

  • VERAVisual evaluation, reporting & analytics for academic juries and accreditation workflows.vera-eval.app
  • KAIROSConflict-free university course timetabling on OR-Tools CP-SAT.kairos.huguryildiz.com
  • UWA Ray BenchBenchmarking LLMs against a BELLHOP3D reference solver on underwater acoustic ray tracing.uwa-ray-bench.vercel.app

Research program & software →

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