Dr. Ilknur Aydin

Professor
Computer Systems
Email
631-420-6433
Whitman Hall Room 212

Education

PhD, Computer Science, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA, 2010
BSc, Computer Engineering, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1999

Biography

Ilknur Aydin is a full professor at the Computer Systems department at Farmingdale State College. Before FSC, Dr. Aydin was an assistant professor of Computer Science department at SUNY Plattsburgh, NY. She received her Ph.D. and MSc degrees in Computer Science from University of Delaware, DE, USA and her BSc degree in Computer Engineering from Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey. Before coming to USA, Dr. Aydin worked as a software engineer in a tech company in Istanbul, Turkey on projects such as implementation of a GPS based vehicle tracking system.

Dr. Aydin's research is in the general area of wireless and mobile networks. Dr. Aydin has worked on the transport layer issues, SCTP protocol, multihoming, congestion control, and network coding related issues. Dr. Aydin is the implementer of SCTP module in QualNet network simulator  (a public software) for the QualNet network simulator. Dr. Aydin has worked with high school and undergraduate students on research projects that involves the use of Arduino boxes and Raspberry Pi's in the context of Internet of Things and well as utilizing public testbeds such as CloudLab and FABRIC for networking research. For the list of publications of Dr. Aydin, you can visit her Google scholar site. 

Dr. Aydin is also interested in computer science education and increasing the participation of women and diversity in computing. Dr. Aydin is the long time faculty co-advisor of the Women in Computing club at FSC.

Areas of Research and Teaching:

Research: Wireless and Mobile Networks, Transport Layer, Internet of Things
Courses: Programming courses (Java, C++, Perl, C# ), Computer Networking, Unix and shell scripting, Database, Software Engineering

Previous Academic and Professional Positions:
Associate Professor, Computer Systems Department, Farmingdale State College, NY, 2018-2024
Assistant Professor, Computer Systems Department, Farmingdale State College, NY, 2012-2018
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, SUNY Plattsburgh, NY, 2009-2012
Teaching/Research Assistant, Computer and Info. Sciences Department, University of Delaware, DE, 2001-2008
Software Engineer, Teknobil Inc., Istanbul, Turkey, 1999-2000