Speakers

Dr. Eylem Ekici has received his BS and MS degrees in Computer Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1997 and 1998, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, in 2002. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. He is an Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and a former associate editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier). He served as the general co-chair of ACM MobiCom 2012. He was also the TPC Co-Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2017. Dr. Ekici is the recipient of the 2008 and 2014 Lumley Research Award of the College of Engineering at OSU. He also received the 2016 Harrison Faculty Award for Excellence in Engineering Education. Dr. Ekici's current research interests include cognitive radio networks, vehicular communication systems, and next generation wireless systems, with a focus on algorithm design, medium access control protocols, resource management, and analysis of network architectures and protocols. He is an IEEE Fellow and a member of ACM.

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