Ertugrul Basar

Background

About Ertugrul Basar

Dr. Ertugrul Basar was born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1985. He received a B.S. degree (with High Honors) from Istanbul University, Turkey, in 2007 and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, in 2009 and 2013, respectively. He is a Professor of Wireless Systems at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tampere University, Finland. He was the founding director of the Communications Research and Innovation Laboratory (CoreLab) at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. Before joining Tampere University, he held positions at Koç University (2018-2025) and Istanbul Technical University (2009-2018). In the past, he had visiting positions at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, as a Visiting Research Collaborator (2011-2022) and at Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, as a Mercator Fellow (2022). Prof. Basar’s primary research interests include beyond 5G and 6G wireless systems, MIMO systems, index modulation, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, waveform design, zero-power and thermal noise communications, software-defined radio, physical layer security, quantum key distribution systems, and signal processing/deep learning for communications. He is an inventor of ten pending/granted patents on future wireless technologies. With around 190 international journal publications that have received more than citations, Prof. Basar’s contributions to communications and wireless technologies are highly regarded. Notably, in the recent list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists, his yearly and career-long rankings are 21st and 254th in the subfield of Networking & Telecommunications. His dedication to teaching has also been recognized, as evidenced by the 2022-2023 Koç University Outstanding Teaching Award, and he supervised 5 Ph.D. and 18 Master of Science students. Currently serving as an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Communications and Networks, Dr. Basar has previously held editorial positions for various journals, including Communications Letters (2016-2022), Transactions on Communications (2018-2022), Physical Communication (2017-2020), and Access (2016-2018). He is an Associate Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) and a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA). In recognition of his outstanding contributions to physical-layer design for next-generation wireless networks, Prof. Basar was elevated to Fellow in 2023, becoming one of the youngest Fellows of Turkey at the age of 37. Email: ertugrul.basar@tuni.fi