Ian F. Akyildiz

Ian F. Akyildiz
Ian F. Akyildiz
Born	April 11, 1954 (1954-04-11) (age 67) İstanbul, Turkey
Scientific career
Fields	Electrical and Computer Engineering Telecommunications
Institutions	Georgia Institute of Technology

Ian F. Akyildiz (born on April 11, 1954 in Istanbul, Turkey as İlhan Fuat Akyıldız) is a retired Professor of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).^[1] He was the Director of the Broadband Wireless Networking (BWN) Laboratory and Chair of the Telecommunications Group at the School of ECE at Georgia Tech. He is a highly cited researcher.

His current research interests are in Terahertz Communications, Nanonetworks, Internet of NanoThings, Internet of BioNanothings, 5G/6G Wireless Systems, Internet of Space Things/CUBESATs, and Wireless Sensor Networks in Challenged Environments.

Biography[]

He was born in Istanbul, Turkey, on April 11, 1954.^{[citation needed]} He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 1978, 1981 and 1984, respectively.

Editing career[]

He is the Emeritus Editor-in-Chief of Computer Networks Journal (2000-2019). He is also the Emeritus founding Editor-in-Chief of the Ad Hoc Networks Journal (2003-2019). In addition, he is the Emeritus Founding Editor in Chief of both journals, i.e., Physical Communication Journal (2008-2017) and Nanocommunication Networks Journal (2010-2017).

He is a former editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (1996–2001), (1997–2001), (1995–2002), for IEEE Transactions on Computers (1992–1996) as well as for (WINET) (1995–2005).

He served as a guest-editor for several special issues of various journals between 1988–2001 including "Networks in Metropolitan Areas" in October 1992 and "Mobility and Resource Management in Next Generation Wireless Systems" in October 2001 for IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications.

Conferences[]

He was the technical program chair of the 9th IEEE Computer Communications workshop in 1994.

Together with Imrich Chlamtac, in 1995, he launched the ACM MOBICOM (International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking), which is now the premier conference in the broad field of wireless networking, and he was the Technical Program Chair for MOBICOM'96 and MOBICOM'02.

He was also Technical Program Chair for IEEE INFOCOM'98 (Computer Networking Conference) and IEEE ICC'2003 (International Conference on Communications).

He is the Co-Founder of the ACM SenSys (Sensor Systems) Conference and General Co-Chair of the ACM SenSys'03, which took place in Los Angeles in November 2003.

He was the General Chair for Third Med Hoc (Mediterranean Conference on Ad Hoc Networks), in Bodrum, Turkey, June 2004, and the General Chair of the IFIP Networking'07 Conference in Atlanta, May 2007.

In order to help and boost the research activities in the Black Sea region countries, in 2013 a group of researchers including him established the IEEE BlackSeaCom Conference (International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking). The first BlackSeaCom took place in Batumi, Georgia.

Similarly, to help to connect the Balkan countries to the Western research world, he was a member of the steering committee that launched the BalkanCom conference [ [BalkanCom ] ] in Tirana, Albania in 2017.

He was also the Founder of the ACM NANOCOM (International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication), which he launched in May 2013 with the goal of accelerating the nanoscale computing, communication and networking research activities.

He gave keynote speeches at many international conferences, delivered distinguished seminars and teaches tutorials/classes worldwide.

Textbooks[]

Dr. Akyildiz is the author of the following 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.
• Z. Sun and I. F. Akyildiz, "Key Communication Techniques for Underground Sensor Networks," Foundations and Trends in Networking, Now Publishers Inc., ISBN 978-1-60198-550-7, April 2012.
• J. M. Jornet and I. F. Akyildiz, "Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Nanonetworks in the Terahertz Band," Foundations and Trends in Networking, Now Publishers Inc., ISBN 978-1-601-98736-5, November 2013
• M. Pierobon and I. F. Akyildiz, "Fundamentals of Diffusion-Based Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks," Foundations and Trends in Networking, Now Publishers Inc, ISBN 978-1-601-98816-4, April 2014.

Awards[]

• "Pioneer Award in Underwater Communication", for "his significant contributions to underwater communication networks" at the 13th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet'18) in Shenzhen, China on December 4, 2018.
• IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN) Recognition Award for "pioneering contributions to spectrum sensing, spectrum sharing algorithms and communication protocols for cognitive radio networks" in October 2017.
• ACM MSWIM Award with the citation: "For pioneering contributions for modeling and analysis of cellular and multihop wireless communication systems" in September 2014.
• Humboldt Research Prize from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, in November 2013.
• FiDiPro (Finland Distinguished Professor) Professorship at Tampere University of Technology, Department of Communications Engineering, Finland, supported by the Academy of Science in Finland, in January 2013 for the next 4 years.
• 2011 TUBITAK (Turkish National Science Foundation) Exclusive Award for "Outstanding contributions to the advancement of scholarship/research at international level", December 2011.
• 2011 IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award for "Pioneering contributions to wireless sensor network architectures and communication protocols", in May 2011.
• 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.
• Best Paper Award for "Deployment Algorithms for Wireless Underground Sensor Networks using Magnetic Induction" in the IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), December 2010.
• 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.
• 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 Georgia Tech Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award for his 20+ years service and dedication to Georgia Tech and producing outstanding PhD students in April 2009.
• 2005 Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from School of ECE, Georgia Tech, April 2005.
• 2004 Georgia Tech Faculty Research Author Award for his "Outstanding record of publications of papers between 1999-2003", April 2004.
• 2003 ACM SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award for his "Pioneering contributions in the area of mobility and resource management for wireless communication networks", September 2003.
• 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.
• 2002 IEEE Memorial Award (IEEE Computer Society) with the citation "For significant and pioneering contributions to advanced architectures and protocols for wireless and satellite networking".
• 1997 IEEE 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.
• ACM Outstanding Distinguished Lecturer Award for 1994.
• 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".
• 1996 IEEE Fellow with the citation: "For contributions to performance analysis of computer communication networks".
• ACM Distiguinshed Lecturer Award in 1994.
• The Don Federico Santa Maria Medal for his services to the Universidad of Federico Santa Maria in Chile in 1986.

References[]

External links[]

• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Author profile in the database zbMATH