Semih Çal

Semih Cal

Phone
614-823 1217

Email
cal1@otterbein.edu

Office
Art & Communication C129

Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering, Computer Science, & Physics

Semih Çal, Ph.D. received his Bachelor’s degree from Sam Houston State University. After completing his undergraduate studies, he worked in the industry in Istanbul, Turkey, for 1.5 years. He then moved to Youngstown, Ohio, where he earned his Master’s degree from Youngstown State University. Dr. Çal completed his Ph.D. at Texas Tech University, specializing in wireless communication networks, energy-efficient algorithms, and federated learning for IoT and drone networks.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Texas Tech University in 2024
  • M.S. in Computing and Information Systems from the Youngstown State University in 2021
  • B.S. in Computer Software Engineering Technology from the Sam Houston State University in 2017

Publications

  • Cal S, Yao J, Sun X. “Energy-Efficient Federated Knowledge Distillation Learning in Internet of Drones.” 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Workshop , June 2024.
  • Cal S, Sun X, Yao J. “Client Selection in Fault-Tolerant Federated Reinforcement Learning for IoT Networks.” 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, June 2024.
  • Yao J, Cal S, Sun X. “Reliability-Aware Offloading in UAV-Aided Mobile Edge Network by Lyapunov Optimization.” 2024 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), February 2024.
  • Yu F, Cal S, Cheng E, Kerns L, Weidong X. “Non-Parametric Error Estimation for σ-AQP using Optimized Bootstrap Sampling.” International Journal for Computers & Their Applications, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 38-47, March 2022.
  • Cal S, Cheng E, Yu F. “Optimized Bootstrap Sampling for σ-AQP Error Estimation: A Pilot Study.” Proceedings of ISCA 30th International Conference, vol. 4, no. 77, pp. 144-53, October 2020