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Eren Yildiz

Postdoctoral Researcher at Georgia Tech

School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

About Me

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, working with Dr. Josiah Hester in the Ka Moamoa Lab. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Ege University, advised by Dr. Kasim Sinan Yildirim. My research focuses on battery-free, energy-harvesting systems that enable sustainable, ultra-low-power computing. I develop hardware/software co-design approaches that allow sensing platforms to operate reliably across power failures.

Education

PhD in Computer Engineering (2018–2023)

Ege University

MSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (2015–2018)

Mersin University

BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (2009–2014)

Mersin University

Research Interests

Embedded Systems Operating Systems/Runtimes Computer Architectures Low‐power Architectures Energy Harvesting Battery-free IoT Intermittent Computing Tiny Machine Learning
📚 My Research
My research focuses on enabling sustainable, ultra–low‐power computing platforms that operate reliably under intermittent power conditions by leveraging ambient energy sources such as RF, solar, and vibration. I have developed novel timekeeping architectures, energy‐aware runtime systems, and resilient hardware/software co‐designs for the deployment of self‐powered IoT devices . With more than 10 peer‐reviewed publications, including in top‐tier venues such as OSDI, EuroSys, SenSys, MobiSys and EWSN, my work advances energy‐efficient sensing technologies for applications in smart infrastructure, healthcare monitoring, and environmental systems. These contributions were recently recognized with the EWSN 2025 and MobiSys 2026 Rising Star, highlighting the impact of my work on sustainable mobile and embedded systems.
Recent News
  • [Sep 2026] Our paper entitled “Magnetic Tunnel Junctions for Timekeeping in Intermittent Computing Systems” has been accepted to appear in ACM SenSys 2027.
  • [May 2026] Invited to serve on the TPC of SenSys 2027.
  • [May 2026] Selected as a MobiSys Rising Star 2026 and honored to participate in the MobiSys 2026 Rising Stars Forum with a talk titled “System Support for Reliable Edge Computing under Intermittent Energy.”
  • [Feb 2026] Our paper entitled “BIONIC: A Co-Designed Hardware and Runtime for Time-Sensitive Battery-Free IoT” has been accepted to appear in ACM MobiSys 2026.
  • [Feb 2026] Our paper entitled “A Greener Edge: A Framework on Carbon-aware Edge ML System Design” has been accepted to appear in ACM MobiSys 2026.
  • [Jan 2026] Invited to serve on the TPC of ENSsys 2026.
  • [Sep 2025] Our paper entitled “CapDYN: Adaptive Self-Scaling Energy Storage for Powering Batteryless IoT” has been published in ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS).
  • [Sep 2025] I am honored to participate in the EWSN 2025 Rising Stars Forum.
  • [Feb 2025] Started as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Ka Moamoa Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
  • [Sep 2024] Our paper entitled “Fast-Inf: Ultra-Fast Embedded Intelligence on the Batteryless Edge” has been accepted to appear in ACM SenSys.
  • [Jul 2024] I visited the University of Trento through the Erasmus+ programme for a research exchange.
  • [Feb 2024] Our paper entitled “Adaptable Runtime Monitoring for Intermittent Systems” has been accepted to appear in ACM EuroSys 2024.
  • [Jun 2023] I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at Ege University, marking the culmination of my doctoral research on energy-efficient and battery-free computing systems.
  • [Jan 2023] Our paper entitled “Efficient and Safe I/O Operations for Intermittent Systems” has been accepted to appear in ACM EuroSys 2023.
  • [Mar 2022] Our paper entitled “Immortal Threads: Multithreaded Event-driven Intermittent Computing on Ultra-Low-Power Microcontrollers” has been accepted to appear in USENIX OSDI 2022.
  • [Dec 2021] I joined Northwestern University as a Visiting Researcher for a one-year research appointment.
  • [Mar 2020] I was awarded the 2214-A International Research Fellowship Programme for PhD Students by TÜBÄ°TAK.

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Publications
Xuesi Chen, Ilan Mandel, Eren Yildiz, Josiah Hester, Udit Gupta (2026). A Greener Edge: A Framework on Carbon-aware Edge ML System Design. MobiSys 26.
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Eren Yildiz, Davide Cavedon, Stefano Antonio Putelli, Josiah Hester, Kasım Sinan Yıldırım (2026). BIONIC: A Co-Designed Hardware and Runtime for Time-Sensitive Battery-Free IoT. MobiSys 26.
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Maria Doglioni, Eren Yildiz, Matteo Nardello, Khakim Akhunov, Kasim Sinan Yildirim, Davide Brunelli (2025). CapDYN: Adaptive Self-Scaling Energy Storage for Powering Batteryless IoT. TECS 2025.
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Khakim Akhunov, Eren Yildiz, Kasim Sinan Yildirim (2025). PEARL: Power- and Energy-Aware Multicore Intermittent Computing. EWSN'25.
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Eren Yildiz, Khakim Akhunov, Lorenzo Antonio Riva, Arda Goknil, Ivan Kurtev, Kasim Sinan Yildirim (2024). Adaptable Runtime Monitoring for Intermittent Systems. EuroSys'24.
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Saad Ahmed, Eren Yildiz, Shashank Holla, Noor Mohammed, Bashima Islam, Kasim Sinan Yildirim, Jeremy Gummeson, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Josiah Hester (2024). Bootstrapping Health Wearables Powered by Intra-Body Power Transfer. BSN'24.
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Leonardo Lucio Custode, Pietro Farina, Eren Yildiz, Renan Beran Kılıç, Kasim Sinan Yildirim, Giovanni Iacca (2024). Fast-Inf: Ultra-Fast Embedded Intelligence on the Batteryless Edge. SenSys'24.
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Eren Yildiz, Davide Cavedon, Kasim Sinan Yildirim (2024). On Tracking Time with Better Resolution and Range in Batteryless Systems. ENSsys'24.
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Pietro Farina, Subrata Biswas, Eren Yildiz, Khakim Akhunov, Saad Ahmed, Bashima Islam, Kasim Sinan Yildirim (2024). Memory-efficient Energy-adaptive Inference of Pre-Trained Models on Batteryless Embedded Systems. EWSN'24.
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Ferhat Erata,, Eren Yildiz, Arda Goknil, Kasim Sinan Yildirim, Jakub Szefer, Ruzica Piskac, Gokcin Sezgin (2023). CapDYN: Adaptive Self-Scaling Energy Storage for Powering Batteryless IoT. TECS 2023.
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Khakim Akhunov, Eren Yildiz, Kasim Sinan Yildirim (2023). Enabling efficient intermittent computing on brand new microcontrollers via tracking programmable voltage thresholds. ENSsys'23.
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Eren Yildiz, Saad Ahmed, Bashima Islam, Josiah Hester, Kasim Sinan Yildirim (2023). Efficient and safe i/o operations for intermittent systems. EuroSys'23:.
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Eren Yildiz, Lijun Chen, Kasim Sinan Yildirim (2022). Immortal Threads: Multithreaded Event-driven Intermittent Computing on Ultra-Low-Power Microcontrollers. OSDI 22.
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Eren Yildiz, Kasim Sinan Yildirim (2021). Persistent timekeeping using harvested power measurements. ENSsys'21.
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Eren Yildiz, Kasim Sinan Yildirim (2020). Defragmenting Energy Storage in Batteryless Sensing Devices. ENSsys'20.
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Eren Yildiz, Kasim Sinan Yildirim, PrzemysƂaw PaweƂczak, Josiah Hester (2019). On the Accuracy of Network Synchronization Using Persistent Hourglass Clocks. ENSsys'19.
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Awards
MobiSys Rising Star 2026
The International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys) ∙ June 2026
Selected to participate in the MobiSys Rising Stars Forum, presenting “System Support for Reliable Edge Computing under Intermittent Energy.”
EWSN Rising Star 2025
The International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) ∙ September 2025
I was selected as one of the Rising Stars in Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) 2025.
2214-A - International Research Fellowship Programme for PhD Students
The Scientific And Technological Research Council Of Turkey(TUBITAK) ∙ December 2021
I was awarded a $21,000 research fellowship by TUBITAK to conduct my project on improving the energy efficiency of battery-free sensor systems at Northwestern University.
Service Record

Conference & Workshop TPCs

  • ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2027)
  • 14th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting & Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems (ENSsys 2026)

Journal Reviews

  • ACM Transactions on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • Future Generation Computer Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society

External Reviewer

  • ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT)
  • ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS 2026)

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