Özgür Barış Akan

Bio

Özgür B. Akan was born in Ankara, Turkey. After high school education in Ankara Fen Lisesi (Ankara Science High School), he received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical and electronics engineering from Bilkent University and Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in June 1999 and January 2002, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in May 2004. He was with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University, between May 2004 and August 2010. Prof Akan served as the Associate Director of the Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey from January 2013 to August 2015, and then as the Director from September 2015 to May 2016. He was the Dean of the College of Engineering and the Director of the Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering at Koç University, Turkey from September 2019 to August 2021, and then served as the Vice President for Research & Development (VPRD) at Koç University, Turkey from September 2021 to July 2022.

Prof Akan is the AXA Chair Professor in Internet of Everything and Director of the Center for neXt-generation Communications (CXC) at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, where he conducts highly multidisciplinary theoretical and experimental research on bio/nano/molecular/wireless communications. He is also the Head of the Internet of Everything Group at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK. Prof. Akan is an IEEE Fellow, Turing Fellow, and also is a member of INVENTRAM, UNVEST, KUTTAM (Koç University Research Center for Translational Medicine), and KUIS AI (Koç University & İş Bank Artificial Intelligence Center - Board of Directors). He is recipient of the European Research Council's (ERC) Consolidator Grant, ERC Proof of Concept (PoC) Grant, AXA Chair Professorship, TUBITAK Science Award, IBM Faculty Award, IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Young Researcher Award, and numerous other awards. He is an IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) Distinguished Lecturer and IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Distinguished Lecturer. Prof Akan serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-scale Communications, Scientific Reports (Nature), and Nano Communication Networks Journal (Elsevier). He has served as an editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IET Communications, IEEE Networking Letters, International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley), European Transactions on Telecommunications, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (Wiley), and the Steering Committee Member for IEEE INFOCOM, General Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2017, ACM MOBICOM 2012 and IEEE MONACOM 2012, and TPC Chair for various conferences including IEEE CAMAD 2014.

Research Areas

Bio/Nano/Molecular/Quantum/Wireless Communications , Internet of Everything (IoE) , 6G and THz Wireless Systems , Satellite and Space Communications , Signal Processing , Information Theory

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