Murat Isik 4227 Leidy Ave Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

19104
I +1 (516) 451 6292
FPGA Enthusiast # muratisik44@icloud.com

Expertise
○ Machine Learning ○ Neuromorphic Computing
○ Hardware/Software Codesign ○ Reconfigurable Computing

Education
2021-2026 Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University
2021-2023 M.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University
2016-2021 B.Sc., Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Inonu University

Honor and Awards

2022 Foresight Institue Fellowship
2022 Design and Automation Conference Young Fellowship
2021 Drexel Graduate Fellowship
2021 Inonu University, Graduation Ceremony, Honor Student
2020 1001 Grant Program-Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (project
no. 117E069)
2020 Teknofest, First Place Award in Healthy Innovation Category
2016-2021 TEV Scholarship-Achievement Grant

Experience
September Research and Teaching Assistant, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
2021- My research focus is on "FPGA Virtualization for Neuromorphic Computing". FPGA
accelerators are gaining increasing popularity in both cloud and edge computing because
of their hardware flexibility, high computational throughput, and low power consumption.
The virtualization of FPGAs becomes extremely important to create a useful abstraction
of the hardware suitable for application development teams. Partial reconfiguration is a
key technique for FPGA Virtualization and Partial Reconfiguration technology enables the
inclusion of mutually exclusive functions during system operation at run-time in a single
device. I believe that hardware-software co-design is the future of reconfigurable computing.
I am gaining the most knowledge here, especially in neuromorphic computing, which is
considered an extremely niche area.
June FPGA Architect, Lattice Semiconductor, San Jose, CA
2022-October Creating a partial reconfiguration flow for Radiant, Propel and Propel Builder software
2022 (Devices: ECP5, CertusPro-NX).
 September FPGA Engineer, Mindway Design, Milan, Italy
2020-August Design and prototyping experience using ZCU104, KC105, VC709 boards within Microblaze
2021 softcore processor. Register FIFO, AXI-4 Lite, DDR4RAM, Quad SPI, JESD204B (Tx-Rx),
Uart Lite, XDMA for PCI Express (4.0), Ethernet 10G, DDS Compiler, DUC/DDC, FIR
Filter, CIC Filter IPs design include digital front end and framework parts.
June 2020- Digital Design Engineer-Intern, BAYKAR Technologies, Istanbul, Turkey
September Implemented QPSK modulation on AD9361 communication systems using the Zynq ZCU-102
2020 board and the AD9361 module, and verified the signal on MATLAB.
February Researcher, TUBITAK, Ankara, Turkey
2020-June Using the ATMEGA 2560, realized the software that transfers the radiation data to the
2020 MATLAB Simulink by using the RS-232 protocol from the TES-1333R instrument and
measuring the temperature data from the DS18B20 sensor over the panel.

References
[1] Oguzhan Derebasi, Isik, Murat, Oguzhan Demirag, Dilek Goksel Duru, and Anup
Das. A coupled neural circuit design for guillain-barre syndrome. arXiv preprint
arXiv:2206.13056, 2022.

[2] Mali Halac, Isik, Murat, Hasan Ayaz, and Anup Das. Multiscale voxel based
decoding for enhanced natural image reconstruction from brain activity. arXiv
e-prints, pages arXiv–2205, 2022.

[3] Phu Khanh Huynh, M Lakshmi Varshika, Ankita Paul, Isik, Murat, Adarsha Balaji,
and Anup Das. Implementing spiking neural networks on neuromorphic architectures:
A review. arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.08897, 2022.

[4] Ömer Karagöz, Işık, Murat Can, Muhammed Tarık Yıldız, Eyyüp Demirkutlu,
Uzay Sanayii AŞ, and Serdar Ethem Hamamcı. Dc-dc dönüştürücüler için emi filtre
tasarımı emi filter design for dc-dc converters.

[5] Işık, Murat, Muhammed Yıldız, Mehmet Can, Ömerül Özgüven, and Zeki Akinci.
Neutrosophic fuzzy logic based maximum power point tracker design and real
time application, 2nd international eurasian conference on science, engineering and
technology (eurasianscientech 2020) pg 337. 2020.

[6] Murat Isik, Ankita Paul, M Lakshmi Varshika, and Anup Das. A design methodology
for fault-tolerant computing using astrocyte neural networks. In Proceedings of the
19th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, pages 169–172, 2022.

[7] Muhammed Yıldız, Işık, Murat, Zeki Akinci, Mehmet Can, and Ömerülfaruk
Özgüven. Neutrosophic logic based maximum power point tracker for grid-connected
photovoltaic system design and simulation study, 2nd international eurasian con-
ference on science, engineering and technology (eurasianscientech 2020) pg 338.
2020.

Programming Skills
Programming Python, Matlab, OpenCL, VHDL, Verilog, C++, SystemC
Software Quartus Prime, Vivado-Vitis, Propel-Radiant
Tools LATEX, Spyder, Inkscape, Illustrator, Photoshop, Imagine

Academic Duties
Invited Talks
2022 19th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers,
A design methodology for fault-tolerant computing using astrocyte neural networks.
2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks,
Multiscale Voxel Based Decoding For Enhanced Natural Image Reconstruction From
Brain Activity
Reviewer
2022 ISA Transactions-Journal
2022 American Journal of Computer Science and Technology
2023 Computing Conference
2023 Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys)
2022 Future Technologies Conference (FTC)
2023 Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC)
2022 Teknofest-Healthy Innovation Category
2022 International Conference on Computer Science and Application Engineering
Teaching Assistance
○ ECE-303: Electronics Laboratory
○ ECET-512: Wireless Systems
○ ECEC-574: ASIC Design

Personal References
Name Contact
○ Satwant Singh ○ satwant.singh@latticesemi.com,
○ Can Dikmen ○ mateusz.pasternak@wat.edu.pl,
○ Mateusz Pasternak ○ can.dikmen@inonu.edu.tr

(more upon request)