Honors & Awards

  • Best Student Paper Award, 12th IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), July 2020
  • Gold Medal, 4th Istanbul International Invention Fair (ISIF’19), September 2019
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (IEEE BlackSeaCom), June 2019
  • IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award, April 2019
  • Keynote Speech, 2nd International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (COMMNET), Rabat, Morocco, April 2019
  • Elevation to IEEE Fellow “for contributions to cooperative and diversity techniques in wireless and optical communications”, January 2019
  • Keynote Speech, Conference on Electrical-Electronics and Biomedical Engineering (ELECO), Bursa, Istanbul, November 2018
  • Keynote Speech, 7th International Conference on Communications and Networking (ComNet’2018), Hammamet, Tunisia, November 2018
  • Keynote Speech, IEEE 26th Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference, SIU’18, May 2018.
  • Elginkan Foundation Technology Award for contributions to “optical wireless communication technologies for beyond 5G wireless networks”, January 2018
  • Listed among the list of Top 100 Turkish Scientists prepared by the leading business magazine Turkishtime, May 2017
  • National Instruments (NI) Engineering Impact Award, May 2017
  • Listed among the list of Top 100 Turkish Scientists prepared by the leading business magazine Turkishtime, May 2017
  • Plenary Speech, 10th IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and DSP (CSNDSP), July 2016
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2016
  • Plenary Speech, 16th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), July 2014
  • Best Researcher Award, Ozyegin University, June 2014
  • Keynote Speech, 2nd IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom), May 2014
  • Distinguished Young Scientist Award, Turkish Academy of Sciences, May 2011
  • Engineering Research Excellence Award, University of Waterloo, September 2010
  • Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) Award, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), June 2008
  • Honorary Mention in the Best Student Paper Award, Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE’08), May 2008
  • Second Best Student Paper Award, IEEE 16th Signal Processing, Communication and Applications Conference (SIU’08), April 2008
  • Senior IEEE Member, August 2007
  • Marsland Faculty Fellowship for “recognition of excellence in teaching and research in the area of information and communication technology”, University of Waterloo, September 2004
  • Best Student Paper Award, IEEE 6th Signal Processing, Communication and Applications Conference (SIU’98), Ankara, Turkey, May 1998