About
This blog explains probabilistic machine learning and signal processing the way I wish they had been explained to me: intuition first, then the math, then code you can run.
Each post is a conversation between Emre, who asks the questions a curious engineer would ask, and Kaan, who answers them step by step. Every post is available in both English and Turkish.
Where to start
- Bayesian machine learning: Bayesian inference and linear regression → Gaussian process regression → Markov chain Monte Carlo
- Estimation and signal processing: Is DSP dead? → Kalman filter → Adaptive filters and active noise cancellation → Compressive sensing and OMP
- A map of the field: Essential machine learning algorithms
Projects
Longer, hands-on write-ups, each with a complete simulation you can run (all projects):
- Game-theoretic TDMA scheduling for long-range WiFi: game theory (Nash equilibrium, Kelly’s mechanism, Nash bargaining) applied to sharing airtime in a wireless network
- Acoustic gunshot detection and localization: a microphone array, MFCC-based classification and GCC-PHAT direction finding
- Adaptive compression for emitter location: my MSc thesis on TDOA emitter location and bit allocation that preserves location accuracy
Coming next
- Wireless communications: wireless channel models and fading, OFDM, channel estimation and equalization, MIMO, and error-correcting codes such as LDPC
About me
I’m Tayyar Güzel, co-founder of Vega Networks, an engineering services company, and SVP of Software Engineering at SiFly Aviation, where we build aerial robotics products, namely drones. Our work spans signal processing, estimation, machine learning and wireless communications, and more. I hold an MSc and a PhD in Electrical Engineering, and over the years, my work has also covered power-line communications, energy markets and touchscreen sensing, as the publications and patents below show.
Publications
- “Supply Curves in Electricity Markets: A Framework for Dynamic Modeling and Monte Carlo Forecasting”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2022
- “Principal Components Null Space Analysis Based Non-intrusive Load Monitoring”, IEEE Electrical Power & Energy Conference, 2015
- “Generalized Gaussian distribution-based LDPC receiver for power-line communications”, IEEE Africon, 2015
- “Noise Modeling and OFDM Receiver Design in Power-Line Communication”, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, 2011
- “Noise and Channel Statistics of Indoor Power Line Networks”, IEEE ICT, 2011
- “Time-Frequency Analysis of Noise Generated by Electrical Loads in PLC”, IEEE ICT, 2010
Patents
- “Water Detection and Wipe Detection Algorithms for Touchscreen Proximity Sensing”, US 10,437,384 · Issued Oct 8, 2019
- “Touch Screen Proximity Sensing With Accelerometer/Gyroscope and Finger Grip Suppression to Prevent False Ear Touch”, US 10,254,879 · Issued Apr 9, 2019
Links
- Twitter: @tayyarguzel
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tayyarg
- GitHub: github.com/tayyarg
- Substack: tayyarguzel.substack.com
If you’d like to get in touch, you can reach me on LinkedIn or Twitter. I’d also love to hear your comments, questions or suggestions about the posts on the blog!