Ian F. Akyildiz

Ian F. Akyildiz
Ian F. Akyildiz
Born	April 11, 1954 İstanbul, Turkey
Scientific career
Fields	Electrical and Computer Engineering Telecommunications
Institutions	Georgia Institute of Technology Tampere University of Technology (Finland Distinguished Professor) (since 2013) Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Honorary Professor) (since 2008) King Abdulaziz University (Consulting Chair Professor) (since 2011) University of Pretoria (Honorary Professor) (2009-2012)

Ian F. Akyildiz is the Ken Byers Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), the Director of the Broadband Wireless Networking (BWN) Laboratory and Chair of the Telecommunications Group at the School of ECE at Georgia Tech.

Since 2013, Dr. Akyildiz is a FiDiPro Professor (Finland Distinguished Professor Program (FiDiPro) supported by the Academy of Finland) at Tampere University of Technology, Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Finland, and the founder of the NCC (Nano Communications Center). Since 2008, Dr. Akyildiz is an Honorary Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering - Telecom BCN at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain, and the founder of the N3Cat (NaNoNetworking Center in Catalunya).

Since 2011, he is a Consulting Chair Professor with the King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Between 2009 and 2012, he was an honorary professor with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and the founder of the Advanced Sensor Networks Lab.

His current research interests are in Nanonetworks, Long-Term Evolution Advanced Networks, Cognitive Radio Networks, and Wireless Sensor Networks. He has the Erdos Number 2.

Biography

He was born in Istanbul, Turkey, on April 11, 1954 (this day was denoted as the most boring day in the 20th century by True Knowledge). He went to high school in Austria. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 1978, 1981 and 1984, respectively.

He held visiting professorships at the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria in Chile (1986); Universite Pierre et Marie Curie and École nationale supérieure des télécommunications in Paris, France (1990); Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain (1992); and University of the Balearic Islands in Palma de Mallorca, Spain (1998).

Editing career

He is the Editor-in-Chief of Computer Networks Journal, the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Ad Hoc Networks Journal in 2003, the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Physical Communication Journal in 2008 and the founding Editor-in-Chief of Nanocommunication Networks Journal since March 2010. He is a former editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (1996–2001), Kluwer Journal of Cluster Computing (1997–2001), ACM-Springer Journal for Multimedia Systems (1995–2002), for IEEE Transactions on Computers (1992–1996) as well as for ACM-Springer Journal of Wireless Networks (WINET) (1995–2005).

He served as a guest-editor for several special issues of various journals between 1988–2001.

Conferences

He was the technical program chair of the 9th IEEE Computer Communications workshop in 1994, for ACM MOBICOM'96 (Mobile Computing and Networking) conference, IEEE INFOCOM'98 (Computer Networking Conference), as well as IEEE ICC'2003 (International Conference on Communications). He was the General Chair for the premier conference in wireless networking, MOBICOM 2002. He is the Co-Founder of the ACM SenSys (Sensor Systems) Conference and General Co-Chair of the ACM SenSys'03, in Los Angeles in November 2003. He was the General Chair for Third Med Hoc (Mediterrenean Conference on Ad Hoc Networks), in Bodrum, Turkey, June 2004, and the General Chair of the IFIP Networking'07 Conference in Atlanta, May 2007.

He gives keynote speeches at several international conferences, delivers distinguished seminars and teaches tutorials/classes worldwide.

He currently serves on the advisory boards of several research centers, journals, conferences and companies.

Textbooks

Dr. Akyildiz is the author of the following two books:

• I. F. Akyildiz and X. Wang: Wireless Mesh Networks, John Wiley Publishing Company, ISBN 978-0-470-03256-5, February 2009.
• I. F. Akyildiz and M. C. Vuran: Wireless Sensor Networks, John Wiley Publishing Company, ISBN 978-0-470-03601-3, August 2010.

Awards

• 1996 IEEE Fellow with the citation: "For contributions to performance analysis of computer communication networks".
• 1997 ACM Fellow with the citation: "For fundamental research contributions in: finite capacity queuing network models; performance evaluation of Time Warp parallel simulations; traffic Control in ATM networks, and mobility management in wireless networks".
• The Don Federico Santa Maria Medal for his services to the Universidad of Federico Santa Maria in Chile in 1986.
• ACM Outstanding Distinguished Lecturer Award for 1994.
• 1997 IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize award (IEEE Communications Society) for his paper entitled "Multimedia Group Synchronization Protocols for Integrated Services Architectures" published in the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) in January 1996.
• 2002 IEEE Harry M. Goode Memorial Award (IEEE Computer Society) with the citation "For significant and pioneering contributions to advanced architectures and protocols for wireless and satellite networking".
• 2003 Best Tutorial Paper Award (IEEE Communications Society) for this paper entitled "A Survey on Sensor Networks" published in the IEEE Communications Magazine, August 2002.
• 2003 ACM SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award for his "Pioneering contributions in the area of mobility and resource management for wireless communication networks", September 2003.
• 2004 Georgia Tech Faculty Research Author Award for his "Outstanding record of publications of papers between 1999-2003", April 2004.
• 2005 Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from School of ECE, Georgia Tech, April 2005.
• Georgia Tech Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award (sponsored by the Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Research and Innovation at Georgia Tech) for his 20+ years service and dedication to Georgia Tech and producing outstanding PhD students in April 2009.
• 2009 ECE Distinguished Mentor Award for mentoring junior faculty (in connection with teaching and research activities) by the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in April.
• 2009 Best Paper Award for "Interferer Classification, Channel Selection and Transmission Adaptation for Wireless Sensor Networks" in the Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (AHSN) symposium at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2009.
• 2010 Best Paper Award for "Deployment Algorithms for Wireless Underground Sensor Networks using Magnetic Induction" in the IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), December 2010.
• 2010 IEEE Communications Society Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Technical Committee (AHSN TC) Technical Recognition Award with the citation: "For pioneering contributions to wireless sensor networks and wireless mesh networks", December 2010.
• 2011 IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award for pioneering contributions to wireless sensor network architectures and communication protocols.
• 2011 TUBITAK Exclusive Award for outstanding contributions to the advancement of scholarship/research at international level.

External links

• Ian F. Akyildiz personal webpage
• Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Nano Communications Center
• NaNoNetworking Center in Catalunya