Dr. Halim Yanikomeroglu: Biography
Halim Yanikomeroglu was born in
Since 1998 Dr. Yanikomeroglu has been with the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa, where he is now a Full Professor with tenure. Dr. Yanikomeroglu’s research interests cover many aspects of the physical, medium access, and networking layers of wireless communications with a special emphasis on multihop/relay/mesh networks and cooperative communications. Dr. Yanikomeroglu has co-authored around 100 papers in these research areas in the last 5 years. At Carleton University, he teaches graduate courses on digital, mobile, and wireless communications. In recent years, Dr. Yanikomeroglu’s research has been funded by Research In Motion (Canada), Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT, Korea), Huawei (China), Communications Research Centre of Canada (CRC), Nortel, NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada), and Carleton University. Dr. Yanikomeroglu is a recipient of the Carleton University Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award in 2010, the Carleton University Graduate Students Association Excellence Award in Graduate Teaching in 2010, and the Carleton University Research Achievement Award in 2009; he has been Carleton University’s nomination for the NSERC Steacie Fellowship in 2010 and 2011.
Dr. Yanikomeroglu has been involved in the steering committees and technical program committees of numerous international conferences in communications; he has also given about 20 tutorials in such conferences. Dr. Yanikomeroglu is a member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), and has been involved in the organization of this conference over the years, including serving as the Technical Program Co-Chair of WCNC 2004 and the Technical Program Chair of WCNC 2008. Dr. Yanikomeroglu was the General Co-Chair of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Fall 2010 held in Ottawa (VTC2010-Fall).
Dr. Yanikomeroglu was an editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications [2002-2005] and IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials [2002-2003], and a guest editor for Wiley Journal on Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing. He was an Officer of the IEEE's Technical Committee on Personal Communications (Chair: 2005-06, Vice-Chair: 2003-04, Secretary: 2001-02), and he was also a member of the IEEE Communications Society's Technical Activities Council (2005-06).
Dr. Yanikomeroglu is an adjunct professor at King Saud University’s Advanced Technology Research Institute (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia). Dr. Yanikomeroglu is a member of the Carleton University Senate; he is also a registered Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Yanikomeroglu resides in Ottawa with his wife Berna and children Erdem (grade 6), Sezgi (grade 4), and Esin (grade 1).
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