Personal information
Surname / First name	Ünal, Alper
Address	Hüdavendigar Mah. Büklüm Sok. Arzum Apt. No. 8/3 Çekirge Osmangazi 16090-Bursa TURKEY
Telephone(s)	+90-224-236 05 16 +90-312-290 13 85	Mobile:	+90-523-447 33 71
E-mail	alper@ee.bilkent.edu.tr
Nationality	Turkish
Date of birth	05 July 1984
Education
Dates	2002 - 2007
	Bilkent University, Ankara Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
B.Sc. Project	Electromagnetic modelling of metamaterials
Supervisor	Prof. Levent Gürel
Work experience
Dates	July/2004 - August/2004
Occupation or position held	Internship
Main activities and responsibilities	Carried out various PLC controller implementations.
Name and address of employer	OYAK-Renault, Bursa / Turkey
Dates	June/2005 - September/2005
Occupation or position held	Internship
Main activities and responsibilities	Carried out CAD modeling of various airborne targets and EM simulations of these targets using parallel computers.
Name and address of employer Dates	BiLCEM, Bilkent University Computational Electromagnetics Research Center, Ankara / Turkey September/2007 – Present
Occupation or position held	Research Engineer
Main activities and responsibilities	Computational electromagnetics, investigation of scattering and radiation problems in military applications. Radar Cross Section calculations of military airborne targets being the main work.
Name and address of employer	BiLCEM, Bilkent University Computational Electromagnetics Research Center, Cyberplaza A Block Bilkent Ankara / Turkey
	Worked in an active research group (BiLCEM) for 2 years as an undergraduate research student.
Undergraduate Projects	Investigation of wave propagation using 1-D FDTD (Junior Year) MLFMA modeling of large parabolic (Dual-Offset Dual-Reflector Cassegrain Type) reflector antennas (Senior Year) MLFMA and CAD modeling of finite extent large metamaterial structures (Senior Project)
Journal Papers _ Undergraduate Publications	[1] L. Gürel, Ö. Ergül, A. Ünal, and T. Malas, "Fast and Accurate Analysis of Large Metamaterial Structures Using the Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm,” IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., submitted for publication, Feb. 2008. International Conferences [1] L. Gürel, A. Ünal, and Ö. Ergül, "Electromagnetic modeling of split-ring resonators," in Proc. 36th European Microwave Conference, 2006, pp. 303-305. [2] Ö. Ergül, A. Ünal, and L. Gürel, "Efficient and accurate analysis of large metamaterial structures with the multilevel fast multipole algorithm," IV. International Workshop on Electromagnetic Wave Scattering, Gebze, Turkey, Sept. 2006. [3] Ö. Ergül, A. Ünal, and L. Gürel, "Accurate modeling of metamaterials with MLFMA," in Proc. European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 350421, 2006. [4] L. Gürel, Ö. Ergül, and A. Ünal, "Accurate analysis of metamaterials involving finite arrays of split-ring resonators and thin wires," PIERS 2007 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Beijing, China, March 2007.
	[5] L. Gürel, Ö. Ergül, and A. Ünal, "Investigation of transmission properties of multilayer metamaterial structures with MLFMA," The 23rd International Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics (ACES 2007), Verona, Italy, March 2007. [6] Ö. Ergül, Ç. Yavuz, A. Ünal, and L. Gürel, "Investigation of various metamaterial structures using multilevel fast multipole algorithm," 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA, June 2007. [7] Ö. Ergül, Tahir Malas, Alper Ünal, and L. Gürel, "Solutions of large integral-equation problems with preconditioned MLFMA," 37th European Microwave Conference, Munich, Germany, Oct. 2007. [8] Ö. Ergül, T. Malas, Ç. Yavuz, A. Ünal, and L. Gürel, "Computational analysis of complicated metamaterial structures using MLFMA and nested preconditioners," 2nd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Edinburgh, UK, Nov. 2007. [9] L. Gürel, Ö. Ergül, and A. Ünal, "Investigation of transmission properties of multilayer metamaterial structures with MLFMA," The 23rd International Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics (ACES 2007), Verona, Italy, March 2007. [10] Ö. Ergül, A. Ünal, and L. Gürel, "MLFMA solutions of transmission problems involving realistic metamaterial walls," in Proc. 2007 Computational Electromagnetics Workshop, 2007, pp. 79-82. International Conference Abstracts: [11] L. Gürel, Ö. Ergül, T. Malas, and A. Ünal, "Preconditioned parallel MLFMA solution of metamaterial structures," PIERS 2006 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 2006. [12] L. Gürel, Ö. Ergül, and A. Ünal, "MLFMA modeling of metamaterials containing split-ring resonators," 2006 IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting and AMEREM Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, July 2006. National Conferences: [13] Ö. Ergül, A. Ünal, and L. Gürel, "Electromagnetic simulation of large metamaterial structures," in Turkish, URSI-Turkey 2006 Scientific Symposium, Ankara, Turkey, 2006, 376-378.
Personal skills and competences
Native Language	Turkish
Other language(s)	English (ToEFL iBT : 109/120), German (Beginner)
Computer skills and competences	Windows OS, UNIX/Linux, I-DEAS, MATLAB, Python, Fortran, MPI, Java
Memberships	IEEE Student Member (2007-present)
Social activities, interests and accomplishments	Active member, instructor and vice-president of Outdoor Sports Society, (DOST) Bilkent University (2002-present) Founding member of Search & Rescue, First Aid Society (BIL-AID), Bilkent University (2005-present) Member of Search and Rescue Association (AKUT) (2004-2005) Member of Biking Club (DOST-Bisiklet) (2007-present) Alpinism, rock climbing, hiking. Climbed various peaks, organized number of climbing trips and led some trekking trips. Mountain biking. Photography. Took photos for the department introduction presentation. Gave seminars about basic disaster management. Open Source Software. Testing Parallel Unified Multipole Algorithm (PUMA) for open source release as a free time activity.