Adnan Kavak

Adnan Kavak received the B.S. degree from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1992, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The University of Texas at Austin, USA, in 1996 and 2000, respectively. He was a satellite control Engineer at Turksat Satellite Control Center, Ankara, Turkey, from December 1992 to May 1994. He aslo worked as a Senior Research Engineer at Wireless Systems Laboratory, Samsung Telecommunications America in Richardson, USA, from January 2000 to July 2001. Then, he joined Kocaeli University, Turkey, in August 2001, and worked as an Assistant Professor there until May 2005. Currently, he is the Director of Wireless Communications and Information Systems (WINS) Research Center, and an Associate Professor at the Computer Engineering Department, Kocaeli University, Turkey. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Yeditepe University, Turkey. His current research interests include 3G and beyond wireless networks, software and cognitive radios, smart antenna and MIMO systems, resource allocation in wireless networks, and wireless sensor networks.

Biography Updated on 7 May 2008