Özyeğin University, Çekmeköy Campus Nişantepe District, Orman Street, 34794 Çekmeköy - İSTANBUL
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Murat
Uysal
Professor, Founding Chair of EE, Communication Systems
Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2001
Elektronik ve Haberleşme Mühendisliği, İTÜ, 1998
Elektronik ve Haberleşme Mühendisliği, İTÜ, 1995
Communication theory, wireless communication, optical communication
Murat Uysal received the B.Sc. and the M.Sc. degree in electronics and communication engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 1995 and 1998, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University in 2001. He is currently a Full Professor of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey. He also serves as the Founding Director of the Center of Excellence in Optical Wireless Communication Technologies (OKATEM). Prior to joining Ozyegin University, he was a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Prof. Dr. Uysal’s research interests are in the broad area of communication theory with a particular emphasis on the physical layer aspects of wireless communication systems in radio and optical frequency bands. He has authored some 400 journal and conference papers on these topics and received more than 17.000 citations with an h-index of 61. He currently serves as an Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications. In the past, he served as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and IEEE Communications Letters. Prof. Dr. Uysal’s major distinctions include the NSERC Discovery Accelerator Award, University of Waterloo Engineering Research Excellence Award, Turkish Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scientist Award, Ozyegin University Best Researcher Award, National Instruments Engineering Impact Award, Elginkan Foundation Technology Award and IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award among others. In 2019, Prof. Dr. Uysal was elevated to IEEE Fellow for “for contributions to cooperative and diversity techniques in wireless and optical communications”.