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Dr. Özgür B. Akan
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Middle East Technical University
Ankara, Turkey 06531


Office: EC-102
Tel: +90-312-210 2353
Fax: +90-312-210 2304
Email: akan@eee.metu.edu.tr
Moment Of Transition (Dali, 1934)
 

Dr. Akan's current research interests are in:

  • next-generation wireless networks,
  • biologically-inspired communications,
  • nano-scale and molecular communications,
  • cognitive radio networks and dynamic spectrum management,
  • sensor networks,
  • satellite and deep space communications,
  • signal processing for wireless communication,
  • multimedia communications,
  • underwater acoustic communications,
  • network information theory.

He conducts and leads the research activities over these broad research fields as the Director of Next generation Wireless Communications Laboratory (NWCL).

The research work in NWCL has been funded by TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), TUBA (Turkish Academy of Sciences), Middle East Technical University, ASELSAN, HAVELSAN, STM, and many other industrial programs and projects. For more information on the current and past research projects, research group members, publications, other technical activities, open positions and announcements, please check the Next generation Wireless Communications Laboratory (NWCL) home page.