• Design and algorithm development for digital signal processing systems
• High performance communication system design
• Real-time implementation on digital signal processors

• Senior Systems Design Engineer, NXP, Austin, TX 3/07 - present
  • System Level Design, Algorithm Development, and DSP implementation in the Wireless Product Division
    
    
• Senior Systems Design Engineer, Silicon Laboratories, Austin, TX, 2/02 - 3/07
  • System Level Design, Algorithm Development, and DSP implementation in the Wireless Product Division
    
    
• Design Engineer, Cicada has been acquired by Vitesse Semiconductor Cicada Semiconductor, Austin, TX, 12/00 - 1/02
  
  • Led Cicada's 10 Gbps serial transceiver physical layer ASIC project
  • Coordinated with marketing engineers to specify requirements and target applications
  • Generated s-parameter models for backplane and cable interconnects
  • Defined and specified all system blocks such as equalizer, timing recovery, modulator, etc.
  • Analyzed end-to-end system performance with time-domain and frequency-domain simulations
  • Represented Cicada at IEEE, T1/E1, and PICMG standard meetings/conference calls
  
  
  
• Research and Teaching Assistant/Grader, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 7/98 - 12/00
  
  • Developed two new time-domain equalizer design methods that deliver higher bit rate compared to widely used MMSE based methods.
  • Wrote the DMTTEQ MATLAB toolbox for TEQ design and analysis.
  • Was the Assistant Director and System Administrator for the Embedded Signal Processing Laboratory.
  • Assisted in teaching/grading of seven different courses in signal and image processing, including Embedded Software Systems, Signal Compression, and Wireless Communications.
  • Developed a code generator for the TMS320C50 EVM board in Ptolemy that generates hand-optimized assembly code from a block diagram representation.
  
  
  

• Adjunct Faculty, Dept. of ECE, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 1/05 - present
  • Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Spring 2007
  • Real-time Digital Signal Processing Laboratory, Spring 2006
  • Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Spring 2005

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2000
  The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
  Area: Telecommunications and Information Systems Engineering
  Ph.D. Thesis: Channel Equalization For Discrete Multitone Transceivers
  GPA: 4.0/4.0
  
  
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, July 1996
  Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
  Area: Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering
  M.S. Thesis: Stereophonic Acoustic Echo Cancellation
  Rank and GPA: 3rd of 11 students, 91.60/100
  
  
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, July 1994
  Yildiz Technical University at Kocaeli, Kocaeli, Turkey
  Area: Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering
  Senior Project: Linear Predictive Coding And Its Implementation On ADSP-2100
  Rank and GPA: 1st of 43 students, 77.32/100

• Design Tools: MATLAB, Ptolemy, Agilent EEsof ADS, OrCAD, PSpice, Zealand IE3D, Ansoft Ensemble, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest
  
  
• Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows 98/NT, DOS, Linux
  
  
• Programming and Scripting Languages: C/C++, QBasic, Perl
  
  
• Assembly Languages: ADI 21xxDSP, INTEL MCS-51, Motorola 6800, INTEL 80x86, TI C3x, C5x, C6x, Ceva Teak
  
  
• Other tools: Perl, RCS, SCCS, make, awk

Professional Activities

• Technical Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems 2004
• Reviewer, IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing
• Reviewer, IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 2000
• Reviewer, IEEE-EURASIP Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing 1999
• Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
• Reviewer, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems 1999
• Senior Member, IEEE

Published Software

• Güner Arslan, Ming Ding, Biao Lu, Milos Milosevic, Zukang Shen, and Brian Evans, Matlab DMTTEQ Toolbox, Copyright 2000 The University of Texas at Austin. Version 3.1 (May 10, 2003) implements equalizer design methods for four different equalizer architectures: single TEQ, dual TEQ, per tone equalizer, and TEQ filter bank equalizer. The toolbox has a GUI that will generate tables and graphics for performance analysis.

Honors and Awards

• Professional Development Award from The University of Texas at Austin in May 1999
• Scholarship from the Turkish Government for graduate education abroad in December 1998
• Valedictorian of B.S.E.E. class of 1994 (43 students)
• Semi-finalist in the first Mind Games Olympiad by Turkish Intelligence Foundation in 1996

Journal Articles

1. G. Arslan, B. Lu, L. D. Clark, B. L. Evans, "Iterative Refinement Methods for Time-Domain Equalizer Design", EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Advanced Signal Processing Techniques for Digital Subscriber Lines, vol. 2006, special issue no. 7, 12 pages, Article Id 43154, 2006.
   
   
2. G. Arslan, B. L. Evans, and S. Kiaei, "Equalization for Discrete Multitone Transceivers to Maximize Bit Rate", IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 49, no. 12, pp. 3123-3135, Dec. 2001
   
   
3. G. Arslan and F. A. Sakarya, "A Unified Neural Network Based Speaker Localization System", IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 997-1002, Jul. 2000.

Conference Papers

1. J. Wu, G. Arslan, and B. L. Evans, "Efficient Matrix Multiplication Methods to Implement a Near-Optimum Channel Shortening Method for Discrete Multitone Transceivers", IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Oct. 29 - Nov. 1, 2000, Pacific Grove, CA.
   
   
2. B. Lu, L. D. Clark, G. Arslan, and B. L. Evans, "Fast Time-Domain Equalization for Discrete Multitone Modulation Systems", IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop, Oct. 15-18, 2000, Hunt, TX.
   
   
3. B. L. Evans and G. Arslan, "A Signal Processing System-Level Design Course", IEEE Signal Processing Education Workshop, Oct. 15-18, 2000, Hunt, TX.
   
   
4. G. Arslan, B. L. Evans, and S. Kiaei, "Optimum Channel Shortening for Multicarrier Transceivers", IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Jun. 5-9, 2000, vol. 5, pp. 2965-2968, Istanbul, Turkey.
   
   
5. G. Arslan, M. Valliappan, and B. L. Evans, "Quality Assessment of Compression Techniques for Synthetic Aperture Radar Images", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Oct. 25-28, 1999, vol. 3, p. 857-861, Kobe, Japan.
   
   
6. B. L. Evans and G. Arslan, "Raising the Level of Abstraction: A Signal Processing System Design Course", Proc. IEEE-EURASIP Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, Jun. 20-23, 1999, vol. 2, pp. 528-531, Antalya, Turkey. (invited paper)
   
   
7. G. Arslan, F. A. Sakarya, and B. L. Evans, "Speaker Localization for Far-field and Near-field Wideband Sources Using Neural Networks", Proc. IEEE-EURASIP Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, Jun. 20-23, 1999, vol. 2, pp. 569-573, Antalya, Turkey.
   
   
8. G. Arslan, F. Gurgen, and F. A. Sakarya, "Application of Neural Networks to Bearing Estimation", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Electronics, Communication and Signal Processing, Oct. 13-16, 1996, vol. 2, pp. 647-650, Rhodes, Greece.
   
   
9. G. Arslan, B. L. Evans, F. A. Sakarya, and J. L. Pino, "Performance Evaluation and Real-time Implementation of Subspace, Adaptive and DFT Algorithms for Multi-tone Detection", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Telecommunications, Apr. 14-17, 1996, vol. 2, pp. 884-887, Istanbul, Turkey.
   
   
10. F. A. Sakarya and G. Arslan, "LMS ve MUSIC Algoritmalari ile DTMF Alicisi Tasarimi (DTMF Receiver Design using the LMS and MUSIC Algorithms)", Proc. National Workshop on Signal Processing (3rd Sinyal Isleme ve Uygulamalari Kurultay Kitabi), Apr. 1995, vol. B, pp. 196-201, Cappadocia, Turkey.