Editorial Work

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
• Editor, ACM/Springer Wireless Networks Journal.
• Editor, International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley).
• 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

• IBM Faculty Award 2008, IBM, 2008.
  
• Turkish Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scientist Award 2008 (TUBA-GEBIP), Turkish Academy of Sciences, 2008.
  
• METU Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2008, Middle East Technical University, 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).

Talks

• Tutorial, "Bio-inspired and Nano-scale Communication and Networking," IEEE ISWCS 2009, Siena, Italy, September 2009.
  
• Keynote Speech, "Bio-inspired and Nano-scale Molecular Communications: From Evolution to Evaluation," SPECTS 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2009.
  
• Tutorial, "Next Generation Sensor Networks," IEEE SIU 2009, Antalya, Turkey, April 2009.
  
• Tutorial, "Bio-inspired Communication and Networking," IEEE SARNOFF Symposium 2009, Princeton, NJ, USA, March 2009.
  
• Tutorial, "Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks," NATO-ARW, Romania, September 2006.
  
• Tutorial, "Wireless Sensor Networks for Military and Defense Applications," NATO-ARW, Romania, September 2006.
  
• Tutorial, "Multimedia Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE ISCN 2006, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.
  
• Tutorial, "Correlation-based Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Communication Society-TR Chapter Distinguished Seminer, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2005.
  
• Invited Talk, "Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications," ASELSAN Inc., Ankara, Turkey, January 2005.
  
• Tutorial, "Wireless Sensor Networks: State-of-the-art and Research Challenges," IFIP TC6 NET-CON 2004, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, November 2004.

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.
• 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 52nd IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2009), December 2009, Hawaii, USA.
• The 3rd IFIP/TC6 International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS 2009), December 2009, Cairo, Egypt.
• The 4th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (ICST BIONETICS 2009), December 2009, Avignon, France.
• The 34th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN 2009), October 2009, Zurich, Switzerland.
• The 6th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2009), October 2009, Macau SAR, P.R.C.
• The 5th European Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks (ECUMN 2009), October 2009, Sliema, Malta.
• The 3rd International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2009), October 2009, Gold Coast, Australia.
• The 1st International Conference on Emerging Network Intelligence (Emerging 2009), October 2009, Sliema, Malta.
• The 20th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC 2009), September 2009, Tokyo, Japan.
• The 6th IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems (IEEE ISWCS 2009), September 2009, Siena, Italy.
• The Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications (TIWDC 2009) on the "Internet of Things", September 2009, Sardinia, Italy.
• The 70th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC-Fall 2009), September 2009, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
• The 12th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2009), September 2009, Sendai, Japan.
• The 9th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking (NEW2AN 2009), September 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• The 4th International Conference on Digital Telecommunications (ICDT 2009), July 2009, Colmar, France.
• The International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems (WINSYS 2009), July 2009, Milano, Italy.
• The IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2009), June 2009, Dresden, Germany.
• The 8th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (MEDHOCNET 2009), June 2009, Haifa, Israel.
• The 3rd International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM 2009), June 2009, Athens, Greece.
• The 5th International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2009), June 2009, Leipzig, Germany.
• The 16th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (IEEE ICT 2009), May 2009, Marrakech, Morocco.
• The 1st International Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems (Mobilight 2009), May 2009, Athens, Greece.
• The 7th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2009), May 2009, Twente, Netherlands.
• The 2nd International Conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications (MOBILWARE 2009), April 2009, Berlin, Germany.
• The 6th European Workshop on the Application of Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecommunication Networks and other Parallel and Distributed Systems (EvoCOMNET 2009), April 2009, Tuebingen, Germany.
• The World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE 2009), March 2009, LA, USA.
• The 7th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (IEEE PerCom 2009), March 2009, Galveston, Texas, USA.
• The 5th IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (IEEE PerSENS 2009), March 2009, Galveston, Texas, USA.