Editorial Work

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
• Editor, ACM/Springer Wireless Networks Journal.
• Area Editor, AD HOC Networks Journal (Elsevier) (2004-2008).
• Guest Editor, Springer Transactions on Computational Systems Biology, Special Issue on Bio-inspired Computing and Communications.
• Guest Editor, Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier), Special Issue on Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks.
• Guest Editor, AD HOC Networks Journal (Elsevier), Special Issue on Bio-inspired Computing and Communication in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks.
• Guest Editor, Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal (Elsevier), Special Issue on Mobile Video.

Honors & Awards

• Turkish Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scientist Award 2008 (TUBA-GEBIP), Turkish Academy of Sciences, 2008.
  
• Parlar Foundation Research Encouragement Award, Prof. Mustafa Parlar Foundation, 2006.
  
• Editor of the Year Award, AD HOC Networks Journal (Elsevier Science), 2006.
  
• Best Paper Award, IEEE ISCN 2006, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.
  
• TUBITAK-Career Award, The Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2005.
  
• Researcher of the Year 2003 Award, Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory,  School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (2003).
  
• Bilkent University Scholarship, Bilkent University, Ankara, TURKEY (1994-1999).
  
• 3rd Place in Mathematics Contest, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (1994).
• Ranked 11th in the Turkish nationwide university entrance exam among more than a million high-school graduates (1994).

Conference Organization

• General Co-Chair, The Third International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (ICST/IEEE BIONETICS 2008), November 2008, Japan.
• General European Vice Chair, The Second International Conference on Nano-Networks (ACM NANO-NET 2007), October 2007, Catania, Italy.
• Technical Program Committee Co-Chair, The Second International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (ACM BIONETICS 2007), December 2007, Budapest, Hungary.
• Publicity Chair, The 22nd International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (IEEE ISCIS 2007), November 2007, Ankara, Turkey.
• Workshop Co-Chair, The Fourth ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (ACM PE-WASUN 2007), October 2007, Crete Island, Grece.
• Publicity Co-Chair, The 6th IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6) International Conference on Networking (IFIP/TC6 NETWORKING 2007), May 2007, Atlanta, USA.
• Tutorials Chair, The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (IEEE MASCOTS 2007), October 2007, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Technical Program Committee Co-Chair, The Second International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (MOBIMEDIA 2006), September 2006, Sardinia, Italy.
• Panel Chair, The First International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS 2006), October 2006, Pisa, Italy.
• Publicity Chair, The 5th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (MEDHOCNET 2006), June 2006, Lipari, Italy.
• International Vice Chair, IEEE INFOCOM 2006, April 2006, in Barcelona, Spain.
• General Chair, The First International Workshop on Convergence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (ConWiN 2005), June 2005, in Budapest, Hungary.
• Tutorialist, IFIP TC6 Conference on Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility (NET-CON 2004), November 3-5, 2004, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
• Publicity Chair, The Second International Workshop on Sensor and Actor Network Protocols and Applications (SANPA 2004), August 22, 2004 in Boston, MA.
  
• Publicity Co-Chair, The Second European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2005), January 31-February 2, 2005, Istanbul, Turkey.
  
• Student Poster Co-Chair, The Third Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (MED-HOC-NET 2004), June 27-30, 2004, Bodrum, Turkey.
  

Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member of

• The Fourth International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON 2008), November 2008, Hawaii, USA.
• The IEEE International Workshop on Cyberspace Safety and Security (IEEE CSS 2008), December 2008, Sydney, Australia.
• The 23rd International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2008), October 2008, Istanbul, Turkey.
• The 6th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2008), May 2008, Tampere, Finland.
• The 11th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2008), September 2008, Lapland, Finland.
• The 68th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC-Fall 2008), September 2008, Calgary, Canada.
• The 67th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC-Spring 2008), May 2008, Singapore.
• The 19th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC 2008), September 2008, Cannes, France.
• The 4rd IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (IEEE PerSENS 2008), March 2008, Hong Kong.
• The Second International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS 2008), November 2008, Tanger, Morocco.
• The 8th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking (NEW2AN 2008), St. Petersburg, September 2008.
• The 7th IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6) International Conference on Networking (IFIP/TC6 NETWORKING 2008), May 2008, Singapore.
• The First International Conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications (MOBILWARE 2008), February 2008, Innsbruck, Austria.
• The 7th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (MEDHOCNET 2008), June 2008, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
• The International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2008), August 2008, Crete Island, Greece.
• The 5th IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems (IEEE ISWCS 2008), October 2008, Reykjavik, Iceland.
• The 8th International Symposium On Computer Networks (ISCN 2008), June 2008, Istanbul, Turkey.
• The 15th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (IEEE ICT 2008),June 2008, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• The Third International Conference on Digital Telecommunications (ICDT 2008), June 2008, Bucharest, Romania.
• The IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems for Communications 2008 (IEEE ICCSC 2008), May 2008, Shanghai, China.
• The IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2008), May 2008, Beijing, China.
• The 51st IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2008), November 2008, New Orleans, LA, USA.
• The European Workshops on the Theory and Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoWorkshops 2008), March 2008, Valencia, Spain.
• The 3rd ICST/Create-Net/IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CrownCom 2008), May 2008, Singapore.
• The 2nd International Workshop on Cooperative Wireless Communications and Networking (CONET 2008), September 2008, London, UK.