Mehmet Burak Erdoğan (born 1972) is a Turkish mathematician, scientist, and professor of mathematics. He is a member of the

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(UIUC) Mathematics Department.Burak Erdoğan's professional web page in UIUC.
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Education

Burak Erdoğan was born in 1972. He attended the high school Kayseri Fen Lisesi in

Kayseri Kayseri () is a large List of cities in Turkey, city in Central Anatolia, Turkey, and the capital of Kayseri Province, Kayseri province. Historically known as Caesarea (Mazaca), Caesarea, it has been the historical capital of Cappadocia since anc ...

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, for two years before moving to

İzmir İzmir is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara. It is on the Aegean Sea, Aegean coast of Anatolia, and is the capital of İzmir Province. In 2024, the city of İzmir had ...

, Turkey where he finished the high school Atatürk Lisesi in 1989. He ranked third in the country-wide university entrance exams. He graduated from

Bilkent University Bilkent University () is a private non-profit research university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by İhsan Doğramacı, the first president of the Council of Higher Education and the head of the prominent Doğramacı family, with th ...

Electrical and Electronics Engineering in

Ankara Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...

in 1994. He finished his MSc degree in Mathematics department of the same university under the supervision of Iossif Vladimirovich Ostrovskii in 1996. He received his PhD in Mathematics under the supervision of

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in 2001.Wolff's Record in the Genealogy Project
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Academic career

He was a postdoc at the

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between 2001-2002 and a visiting assistant professor at

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between 2002-2004. Since then he is a faculty member in UIUC Mathematics Department. He has been an active researcher, having published more than 50 scientific manuscripts with more than 800 citations. He raised 6 PhD students.Burak Erdoğan's Record in the Genealogy Project
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Research areas

His research interests include

harmonic analysis Harmonic analysis is a branch of mathematics concerned with investigating the connections between a function and its representation in frequency. The frequency representation is found by using the Fourier transform for functions on unbounded do ...

and

dispersive partial differential equation In mathematics, a dispersive partial differential equation or dispersive PDE is a partial differential equation that is dispersive. In this context, dispersion means that waves of different wavelength propagate at different phase velocities. Ex ...

Representative scientific publications

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Erdoğan, Mehmet Burak Turkish mathematicians 1972 births Living people University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty People from Kayseri Academics from İzmir Bilkent University alumni