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Erhan Kudeki

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

  • Incoherent Scatter Radar Theory and Measurements
  • Ionospheric Propagation and Sounding Techniques
  • Ionospheric Plasma Instabilities and Equatorial Electrodynamics
  • Mid-latitude Field Aligned Irregularities and Meteor Trails
  • Atmospheric Winds Waves and Turbulence

 

Education

  • PhD, Electrical Engineering, Cornell University January 1983
  • BS, Electrical Engineering, Cornell University June 1978

 

Awards and Honors

Honors

  • NSF CEDAR Prize Lecture 2006 (2006)

Teaching Honors

  • 2018 ECE George Anner Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award
  • 2013 ECE Ronald W. Pratt Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award
  • 2003 Advisors List, College of Engineering
  • List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by Their Students, numerous times since Spring 1987

Research Honors

  • NASA Group Achievement Award, Center of Excellence, 2004 Equis II Sounding Rocket Campaign Team
  • NASA Group Achievement Award, Center of Excellence, 1998 Cocqui II Sounding Rocket Campaign Team

 

Courses Taught

  • ECE 200 - Seminar
  • ECE 329 - Fields and Waves I
  • ECE 350 D (ECE 350 ONL, ECE 350 X, ECE 350 ZJ1) - Fields and Waves II
  • ECE 454 - Antennas
  • ECE 458 - Applic of Radio Wave Propag

 

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Head for Undergraduate Affairs, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Coordinated Science Lab
Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Recent Publications

Chau, J. L., Longley, W. J., Reyes, P. M., Pedatella, N. M., Otsuka, Y., Stolle, C., Liu, H., England, S. L., Vierinen, J. P., Milla, M. A., Hysell, D. L., Oppenheim, M. M., Patra, A., Lehmacher, G., & Kudeki, E. (2023). Solved and unsolved riddles about low-latitude daytime valley region plasma waves and 150-km echoes. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 10, Article 1091319. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2023.1091319

Ryu, C. J., Na, D. Y., Chew, W. C., & Kudeki, E. (2023). Efficient tensor-network simulation for the few-atom multimode Dicke model via coupling-matrix transformation. Physical Review A, 108(4), Article 043707. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.108.043707

Kudeki, E., Reyes, P., Wallace, A., Ye, B., Pfaff, R. F., Larsen, M. F., & Groves, K. M. (2022). A Study of Post-Sunset Spread-F Initiation During the 2013 EVEX Campaign. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127(5), Article e2021JA030256. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA030256

Pfaff, R., Kudeki, E., Freudenreich, H., Rowland, D., Larsen, M., & Klenzing, J. (2022). Dual Sounding Rocket and C/NOFS Satellite Observations of DC Electric Fields and Plasma Density in the Equatorial E- and F-Region Ionosphere at Sunset. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127(5), Article e2021JA030191. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA030191

Ryu, C. J., Kudeki, E., Na, D. Y., Roth, T. E., & Chew, W. C. (2022). Fourier Transform, Dirac Commutator, Energy Conservation, and Correspondence Principle for Electrical Engineers. IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques, 7, 69-83. https://doi.org/10.1109/JMMCT.2022.3148215

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