Tolga Soyata

Tolga Soyata is an Assistant Professor - Research in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Rochester. Dr. Soyata received a B.S. degree in Electrical and Communications Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 1988, M.S. degree in ECE from Johns Hopkins University, and Ph.D. in ECE from University of Rochester, in 1992 and 1999, respectively. His current research interests include real-time high-performance computation and energy-aware system design. He teaches four courses on ASIC, FPGA and GPU design and programming.

Publications

Secure Health Monitoring in the Cloud Using Homomorphic Encryption: A Branching-Program Formulation
Secure Health Monitoring in the Cloud Using Homomorphic Encryption: A Branching-Program Formulation
Scott Ames, Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam, Alex Page, Ovunc Kocabas, Tolga Soyata. © 2020. 37 pages.
Extending cloud computing to medical software, where the hospitals rent the software from the provider sounds like a natural evolution for cloud computing. One problem with cloud...
Towards Privacy-Preserving Medical Cloud Computing Using Homomorphic Encryption
Towards Privacy-Preserving Medical Cloud Computing Using Homomorphic Encryption
Ovunc Kocabas, Tolga Soyata. © 2020. 33 pages.
Personal health monitoring tools, such as commercially available wireless ECG patches, can significantly reduce healthcare costs by allowing patient monitoring outside the...
Conceptualizing a Real-Time Remote Cardiac Health Monitoring System
Conceptualizing a Real-Time Remote Cardiac Health Monitoring System
Alex Page, Moeen Hassanalieragh, Tolga Soyata, Mehmet K. Aktas, Burak Kantarci, Silvana Andreescu. © 2017. 34 pages.
In today's technology, even leading medical institutions diagnose their cardiac patients through ECG recordings obtained at healthcare organizations (HCO), which are costly...
Medical Data Analytics in the Cloud Using Homomorphic Encryption
Medical Data Analytics in the Cloud Using Homomorphic Encryption
Övünç Kocabaş, Tolga Soyata. © 2016. 18 pages.
Transitioning US healthcare into the digital era is necessary to reduce operational costs at Healthcare Organizations (HCO) and provide better diagnostic tools for healthcare...
Face Recognition: A Tutorial on Computational Aspects
Face Recognition: A Tutorial on Computational Aspects
Alexander Alling, Nathaniel R Powers, Tolga Soyata. © 2016. 21 pages.
Face recognition is a sophisticated problem requiring a significant commitment of computer resources. A modern GPU architecture provides a practical platform for performing face...
Operational Cost of Running Real-Time Mobile Cloud Applications
Operational Cost of Running Real-Time Mobile Cloud Applications
Ovunc Kocabas, Regina Gyampoh-Vidogah, Tolga Soyata. © 2016. 27 pages.
This chapter describes the concepts and cost models used for determining the cost of providing cloud services to mobile applications using different pricing models. Two recently...
Enabling Real-Time Mobile Cloud Computing through Emerging Technologies
Enabling Real-Time Mobile Cloud Computing through Emerging Technologies
Tolga Soyata. © 2015. 399 pages.
Today’s smartphones utilize a rapidly developing range of sophisticated applications, pushing the limits of mobile processing power. The increased demand for cell phone...
Conceptualizing a Real-Time Remote Cardiac Health Monitoring System
Conceptualizing a Real-Time Remote Cardiac Health Monitoring System
Alex Page, Moeen Hassanalieragh, Tolga Soyata, Mehmet K. Aktas, Burak Kantarci, Silvana Andreescu. © 2015. 34 pages.
In today's technology, even leading medical institutions diagnose their cardiac patients through ECG recordings obtained at healthcare organizations (HCO), which are costly...
Secure Health Monitoring in the Cloud Using Homomorphic Encryption: A Branching-Program Formulation
Secure Health Monitoring in the Cloud Using Homomorphic Encryption: A Branching-Program Formulation
Scott Ames, Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam, Alex Page, Ovunc Kocabas, Tolga Soyata. © 2015. 37 pages.
Extending cloud computing to medical software, where the hospitals rent the software from the provider sounds like a natural evolution for cloud computing. One problem with cloud...
Selling FLOPs: Telecom Service Providers Can Rent a Cloudlet via Acceleration as a Service (AXaaS)
Selling FLOPs: Telecom Service Providers Can Rent a Cloudlet via Acceleration as a Service (AXaaS)
Nathaniel Powers, Tolga Soyata. © 2015. 31 pages.
To meet the user demand for an ever-increasing mobile-cloud computing performance for resource-intensive mobile applications, we propose a new service architecture called...
Towards Privacy-Preserving Medical Cloud Computing Using Homomorphic Encryption
Towards Privacy-Preserving Medical Cloud Computing Using Homomorphic Encryption
Ovunc Kocabas, Tolga Soyata. © 2015. 34 pages.
Personal health monitoring tools, such as commercially available wireless ECG patches, can significantly reduce healthcare costs by allowing patient monitoring outside the...
Hardware and Software Aspects of VM-Based Mobile-Cloud Offloading
Hardware and Software Aspects of VM-Based Mobile-Cloud Offloading
Yang Song, Haoliang Wang, Tolga Soyata. © 2015. 25 pages.
To allow mobile devices to support resource intensive applications beyond their capabilities, mobile-cloud offloading is introduced to extend the resources of mobile devices by...
Operational Cost of Running Real-Time Mobile Cloud Applications
Operational Cost of Running Real-Time Mobile Cloud Applications
Ovunc Kocabas, Regina Gyampoh-Vidogah, Tolga Soyata. © 2015. 28 pages.
This chapter describes the concepts and cost models used for determining the cost of providing cloud services to mobile applications using different pricing models. Two recently...
Theoretical Foundation and GPU Implementation of Face Recognition
Theoretical Foundation and GPU Implementation of Face Recognition
William Dixon, Nathaniel Powers, Yang Song, Tolga Soyata. © 2015. 20 pages.
Enabling a machine to detect and recognize faces requires significant computational power. This particular system of face recognition makes use of OpenCV (Computer Vision)...
Accelerating Mobile-Cloud Computing: A Survey
Accelerating Mobile-Cloud Computing: A Survey
Tolga Soyata, He Ba, Wendi Heinzelman, Minseok Kwon, Jiye Shi. © 2014. 23 pages.
With the recent advances in cloud computing and the capabilities of mobile devices, the state-of-the-art of mobile computing is at an inflection point, where compute-intensive...
Accessing Big Data in the Cloud Using Mobile Devices
Accessing Big Data in the Cloud Using Mobile Devices
Haoliang Wang, Wei Liu, Tolga Soyata. © 2014. 27 pages.
The amount of data acquired, stored, and processed annually over the Internet has exceeded the processing capabilities of modern computer systems, including supercomputers with...
Medical Data Analytics in the Cloud Using Homomorphic Encryption
Medical Data Analytics in the Cloud Using Homomorphic Encryption
Övünç Kocabaş, Tolga Soyata. © 2014. 18 pages.
Transitioning US healthcare into the digital era is necessary to reduce operational costs at Healthcare Organizations (HCO) and provide better diagnostic tools for healthcare...