| Ian F. Akyildiz | |
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Ian F. Akyildiz
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| Fields | Electrical and Computer Engineering Telecommunications |
| Institutions | Georgia Institute of Technology Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Honorary Professor) (since 2008) University of Pretoria (Honorary Professor) (since 2009) |
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 June 2008, Dr. Akyildiz is a honorary professor with the School of Electrical Engineering at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain. He is the Founder and Director of the N3Cat (NaNoNetworking Center in Catalunya) at the UPC.
Dr. Akyildiz is a honorary professor with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Pretoria, South Africa since March 2009. He is also the founder and Director of the Advanced Sensor Networks South Africa Lab (ASNSA Lab) at the UP.
His current research interests are in Nanonetworks, Cognitive Radio Networks, and Wireless Sensor Networks. He has the Erdos Number 2.
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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).
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.
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.
Dr. Akyildiz is the author of the following two books: