Füsun Özgüner

Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Campus Address:
205 Dreese Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
2015 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210 USA
phone: (614) 292-3039
email: ozguner@ece.osu.edu

Biography

Füsun Özgüner received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Istanbul Technical University in 1972, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1975. She worked at the I.B.M. T.J. Watson Research Center with the Design Automation group for one year and returned to Istanbul to join the faculty at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University in 1976. She spent the summers of 1977 and 1985 at the I.B.M. T.J. Watson Research Center and was a visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in 1980. Since January 1981 she has been with The Ohio State University where she is currrently a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She served as the Interim Department Chair from 2004 to 2006.

Research Interests

Parallel and fault tolerant architectures
Wireless mobile and sensor networks
Interprocessor communication in parallel architectures
Real-time parallel and distributed computing
Parallel algorithm design, particularly for Computer-Aided Design of VLSI circuits
Heterogeneous computing

Publications and Societies

Dr. Özgüner has authored/co-authored over 100 technical papers and has served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers. She also served on the Program Committee for the Seventh Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems and the ICPP-98 and ICPP-99. She co-edited the book Parallel Computing on Distibuted Memory Multiprocessors based on the papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on the same topic that she organized and directed in 1991. She is a member of the IEEE Computer Society.
Selected Publications
CV

Personal Interests

Classical music, playing the piano.