CV

Education:

• Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. 2001-2006

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, June 2006.

Dissertation: "Design and Analysis of Impulse Radio Ultra Wideband Receivers for Communications and Geolocation"

Advisors: Professor H. Vincent Poor and Professor Hisashi Kobayashi

• Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. 1997- 2001

B.S., Electrical and Electronics Engineering, June 2001.

Professional/Research Experience:

• Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Sep. 2025-Present

Department Chair

• Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2017-Present

Professor

• Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada, 2024-2025

Visiting Professor

• Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2012-2017

Associate Professor

• Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2007-2012

Assistant Professor

• Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge, MA. 2006-2007.

Visiting Member of Technical Staff

• Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. 2002-2006

Research Assistant

• Lucent Technologies, Network Solutions Group, Whippany, NJ. June 2005-Aug. 2005.

Summer Intern

• Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge, MA. June 2003-Sep. 2003 & June 2004-Sep. 2004.

Summer Intern

Professional Activities:

• Fellow, IEEE, 2025-present.
• Individual Member, URSI, 2017-present.
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2021-2025.
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2012-2017.
• Associate Editor, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2012-2017.
• Associate Editor, Journal of Communications and Networks, 2012-2017.
• Chairman of Commission F (Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing), URSI Turkey National Committee, 2013-2018.
• Guest editor, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Signal Processing for Location Estimation and Tracking in Wireless Environments, 2008.
• Guest editor, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Special Issue on Localization in Mobile Wireless and Sensor Networks, 2011.
• Guest editor, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Signal Processing Techniques for Anywhere, Anytime Positioning, 2013.
• TPC Co-Chair, 10th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication 2013 (WPNC 2013), Dresden, Germany.
• TPC Co-Chair, 9th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication 2012 (WPNC 2012), Dresden, Germany.
• TPC Co-Chair, IEEE 75th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2012-Spring), Yokohama, Japan.
• TPC member for various IEEE signal processing and communications conferences.