Current Courses:

Past Courses:

Academic Background:

State University of New York at Binghamton: (Ph.D. in Computer Science Dept.),
Binghamton, NY, USA, 1999 - 2004

Yeditepe University: (M.Sc. in Computer Engineering Dept.),
Istanbul, Turkey 1997 – 1999

Marmara University: (B.Sc. in Computer Engineering Dept.),
Istanbul, Turkey 1990 – 1995

Patents:

"Apparatus and Method for Reducing Power Requirements of Microprocessors Through Dynamic Allocation of Datapath Resources"
Kanad Ghose, Dmitry Ponomarev Gurhan Kucuk
The US Patent No. 7,219,249, May 2007.

Publications:

Journal Publications:

"Reducing Energy Consumption of Wireless Sensor Networks through Processor Optimizations"
Gurhan Kucuk, Can Basaran
to appear in Journal of Computers, Issue 4, 2007.

"Dynamic Resizing of Superscalar Datapath Components for Energy Efficiency"
Dmitry Ponomarev, Gurhan Kucuk, Kanad Ghose
IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol.55, No 2, Feb.2006, pp.199-213.

"Reducing Energy Requirements of Register Renaming Logic in Superscalar Processors"
Gurhan Kucuk, Oguz Ergin, Dmitry Ponomarev, Kanad Ghose
IEE Computers & Digital Techniques, vol.152, Issue 6, Nov.2005, pp.739-746.

"Isolating Short-Lived Operands for Energy Reduction"
Dmitry Ponomarev, Gurhan Kucuk, Oguz Ergin, Kanad Ghose
IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 53, No. 6, June 2004, pp. 697-709.

"Complexity-Effective Reorder Buffer Designs for Superscalar Processors"
Gurhan Kucuk, Dmitry Ponomarev, Oguz Ergin, Kanad Ghose
IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol.53, No. 6, June 2004, pp.653-665.

"Energy-Efficient Comparators for Superscalar Datapaths"
Dmitry Ponomarev, Gurhan Kucuk, Oguz Ergin, Kanad Ghose
IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol.53, No. 7, July 2004, pp.892-904.

"Energy-Efficient Issue Queue Design"
Dmitry Ponomarev, Gurhan Kucuk, Oguz Ergin, Kanad Ghose, and Peter M. Kogge
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 11, No.5, October 2003, pp.789-800.
Abstract

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers:

"Power-Aware Processors for Wireless Sensor Networks"
Gurhan Kucuk, Can Basaran
in the 21^st International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS'06) , Istanbul, Turkiye, November 2006.
Abstract   Presentation Slides

"Improving Adaptive Cache Leakage Reduction Techniques with Line Buffers"
Gurhan Kucuk, Kanad Ghose
in the 2^nd Watson Conference on Interaction between Architecture, Circuits, and Compilers, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (PAC2) , Yorktown Heights, NY, September 2005.
Abstract   Presentation Slides

"Distributed Reorder Buffer Schemes for Low Power"
Gurhan Kucuk, Oguz Ergin, Dmitry Ponomarev, Kanad Ghose
21^st International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'03) , San Jose, CA, October 2003, pp.364-370.
Abstract   Presentation Slides

"Reducing Datapath Energy Through the Isolation of Short-Lived Operands"
Dmitry Ponomarev, Gurhan Kucuk, Oguz Ergin, Kanad Ghose
12^th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT'03) , New Orleans, LA, September 2003, pp.258-268.
Abstract   Presentation Slides

"Reducing Reorder Buffer Complexity Through Selective Operand Caching"
Gurhan Kucuk, Dmitry Ponomarev, Oguz Ergin, Kanad Ghose
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED'03), Seoul, Korea, August 2003, pp.235-240.
Abstract   Presentation Slides

"Power Efficient Comparators for Long Arguments in Superscalar Processors"
Dmitry Ponomarev, Gurhan Kucuk, Oguz Ergin, Kanad Ghose
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED'03), Seoul, Korea, August 2003, pp.378-383.
Abstract   Presentation Slides

"A Circuit-Level Implementation of Fast, Energy-Efficient CMOS Comparators for High Performance Microprocessors"
Oguz Ergin, Kanad Ghose, Gurhan Kucuk, Dmitry Ponomarev
20^th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'02) , Freiburg, Germany, September 2002, pp.118-121.
Abstract   Presentation Slides

"Low-Complexity Reorder Buffer Architecture"
Gurhan Kucuk, Dmitry Ponomarev, Kanad Ghose
16^th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'02), New York, NY, June 2002, pp.57-66.
Abstract   Presentation Slides

"AccuPower: An Accurate Power Estimation Tool for Superscalar Microprocessors"
Dmitry Ponomarev, Gurhan Kucuk, Kanad Ghose
5^th Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE-02), Paris, France, March 2002, pp.124-129.
Abstract   Presentation Slides

"Reducing Power Requirements of Instruction Scheduling Through Dynamic Allocation of Multiple Datapath Resources"
Dmitry Ponomarev, Gurhan Kucuk, Kanad Ghose
34^th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-34), Austin, TX, December 2001, pp.90-101.
Abstract   Presentation Slides

"Energy-Efficient Instruction Dispatch Buffer Design for Superscalar Processors"
Gurhan Kucuk, Kanad Ghose, Dmitry Ponomarev and Peter M. Kogge
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED'01), Huntington Beach, CA, August 2001, pp.237-242.
Abstract   Presentation Slides

"Using Dynamic Virtual Ports for the Recovery of Objects in an Agent-based Mobile Computing Environment"
Sebnem Baydere, Gurhan Kucuk
Procedings of Int'l. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Applications and Techniques (PDPTA'98), Las Vegas, NA, June 1998, pp.747-753.
Abstract

"MaROS: A Framework for Application Development on Mobile Hosts"
Sebnem Baydere et.al.
Procedings of Int'l. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (Euro-PDS'97), Barcelona, Spain, June 1997, pp.269-275.
Abstract

"Relocatable Object Creation in a Mobile Computing Environment"
Sebnem Baydere et.al.
Procedings of Int'l. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Applications and Techniques (PDPTA'97), Las Vegas, NA, June 1997, pp.1165-1169.
Abstract

"Recovering Distributed Applications on Mobile Computers"
Sebnem Baydere, Gurhan Kucuk
Procedings of BAS'97, Ankara, Turkey, June 1997, pp.74-79.
Abstract

Peer-Reviewed Workshop Papers:

"Reducing Energy Dissipation of Wireless Sensor Processors Using Silent-Store-Filtering MoteCache"
Gurhan Kucuk, Can Basaran
International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS'06), Montpellier, France, September 2006. will be published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Abstract   Presentation Slides

"Energy-Efficient Register Renaming"
Gurhan Kucuk, Oguz Ergin, Dmitry Ponomarev, Kanad Ghose
13^th International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS'03) , Torino, Italy, September 2003. Published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 2799, pp.219-228.
Abstract   Presentation Slides

"Energy-Efficient Design of the Reorder Buffer"
Dmitry Ponomarev, Gurhan Kucuk, Kanad Ghose
12^th International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS'02) , Seville, Spain, September 2002. Published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 2451, pp. 289-299.
Abstract   Presentation Slides

"Dynamic Allocation of Datapath Resources for Low Power"
Dmitry Ponomarev, Gurhan Kucuk, Kanad Ghose
Workshop on Complexity-Effective Design, 28^th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-28), Goteborg, Sweden, June 2001.
Abstract   Presentation Slides

"Exploiting Bit-Slice Inactivities for Reducing Energy Requirements of Superscalar Processors"
Kanad Ghose, Dmitry Ponomarev, Gurhan Kucuk, Andrew Flinders, Peter M. Kogge, Nikzad Toomarian
Kool Chips Workshop, 33^rd International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-33), Monterey, CA, December 2000.
Abstract   Presentation Slides

Other Publications:

"Power Reduction in Superscalar Datapaths Through Dynamic Bit-Slice Activation"
Dmitry Ponomarev, Gurhan Kucuk, Kanad Ghose
International Workshop "Innovative Architecture for Future Generation High-Performance Processors and Systems" (IWIA'01), 2001, pp.16-24.
Abstract  

"An Application Service Provider for a Mobile Computing Platform"
Gurhan Kucuk
M.Sc. Thesis, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1999.
Abstract

"Solaris 2.x System Administration"
Gurhan Kucuk, Mehmet Can Yildiz, Giray Devlet, Onur Demir, Deger Cenk Erdil, Nurhan Cetin
Yeditepe University Publications, 1997.

"Solaris 2.x User Level Course"
Gurhan Kucuk, Mehmet Can Yildiz, Giray Devlet, Onur Demir, Deger Cenk Erdil, Nurhan Cetin
Yeditepe University Publications, 1997.

Conference Talks:

"Power-Aware Processors for Wireless Sensor Networks"
21^st International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS'06), Istanbul , Turkey, November 2006.

"Distributed Reorder Buffer Schemes for Low Power"
21^st IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'03), San Jose, CA, October 2003.

"Low-Complexity Reorder Buffer Architecture"
16^th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'02), New York, NY, June 2002.

"Energy-Efficient Instruction Dispatch Buffer Design for Superscalar Processors"
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED'01), Huntington Beach, CA, August 2001.

"Shell Programming"
National Internet Conference (INET-TR'98), Istanbul, Turkey, November 1998.

"Recovering Distributed Applications on Mobile Computers"
2nd Symposium on Computer Networks (BAS'97), Ankara, Turkey, 1997.

MSc and PhD work:

Energy-Efficient, Complexity-Effective Superscalar Processor Design, State University of New York at Binghamton, New York, USA, 2004