Sina Balkir

Professor

(402) 472-1635

Ph.D., 1992 Northwestern University, IL
M.S., 1989 Northwestern University, IL
B.S., 1987 Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

Dr. Balkir worked as a software consultant on the development and implementation of CAD tools for special purpose parallel architecture computers at Comtek Consultants Group Inc., Evanston, IL, from 1991-92; as an assistant and associate professor of electrical engineering at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, from 1992-1998; and as a visiting professor of electrical engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1998 to 1999. Currently, he is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Research Interests:

CAD of VLSI systems, Analog VLSI Design Automation, Focal Plane Arrays for Image Processing, Architectural Modeling and Circuit Design of DSP and Image Processing Systems, High Performance Circuit Simulation Techniques.

Selected Publications:

G. Alpaydin, S. Balkir, and G. Dundar, ``An Evolutionary Approach to Automatic Synthesis of High Performance Analog Integrated Circuits'', IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, accepted.

G. Alpaydin, G. Dundar, S. Balkir ``Evolution Based Design of Neural Fuzzy Networks Using Self-Adapting Genetic Parameters,'' IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 211-221, April 2002.

A. S. Ogrenci, G. Dundar, S. Balkir, "Fault Tolerant Training of Neural Networks in the Presence of MOS Transistor Mismatches," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - II, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 272-281, March 2001.

W. D. Leon, S. Balkir, M. Hoffman, L. C. Perez, "Fully Programmable, Scalable Chaos Based PN Sequence Generation," IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 36, No. 16, pp. 1371-1372, August 2000.

G. Hafiz, G. Erten, S. Balkir, G. Dundar, "Multi-level Optimization Approach to Switched-Capacitor Filter Synthesis," IEE Proceedings - Circuits, Devices, and Systems, Vol. 147, No. 4, pp. 243-249, August 2000.

E. Yazicioglu, S. Balkir, G. Dundar, and H. Caglar, "Implementation of a New Orthogonal Shuffled Block Transform for Image Coding Applications," Journal of Real Time Imaging, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 39-46, February 2000.

I. Bayraktaroglu, A. S. Ogrenci, G. Dundar, S. Balkir, and E. Alpaydin, "ANNSyS: an Analog Neural Network Synthesis System", Neural Networks, Vol. 12, pp. 325-338, 1999.

O. Cerid, S. Balkir and G. Dündar, " A Novel CMOS Reference Current Generator", International Journal of Electronics, Vol. 78, No.6, pp. 1113-1118, June 1995.

S. Balkir, M. Yanilmaz, ``Numerical Integration Using Bezier Splines," IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 737 - 745, June 1994.

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