MSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2019,
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2015,
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
Irmak Ozvaris was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1993. She received her B.Sc. degree with first rank from Hacettepe University in 2015, and her M.Sc. degree from Middle East Technical University in 2019, both in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. While doing her M.Sc. which focused on Polar codes; from 2016 to 2021, she also worked as a Senior R&D Engineer at The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) to develop signal processing algorithms for RADAR systems. Since September 2021, she is a PhD student at the ICT Lab at the Signal Processing Systems (SPS) Group, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands; and working on hybrid Forward Error Correction (FEC) for optical communications.