Professor Ozgur B. Akan

Head of the Internet of Everything (IoE) Group at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

About me

Professor Ozgur B. Akan completed his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the USA. He conducts highly interdisciplinary theoretical and experimental research on nanoscale, molecular, neural and wireless communications, unconventional communications and the Internet of Everything.He has authored more than 280 articles (with more than 14,000 citationsand an h-index of 59). He is an IEEE Fellow, a Turing Fellow (The Alan Turing Institute, London) and received the TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Science Award 2020.

Ozgur has been awarded the AXA Chair in Internet of Everything for 2020-2025, ERC (European Research Council) Consolidator Grant for 2014-2019 and the ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant for 2018-2019. He also received the ACM NanoCom Outstanding Milestone Award 2019, IEEE NanoTechnology Council Distinguished Lecturership 2017, TÜBİTAK Young Scientist Award 2014, Koç University Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award 2012 and 2014, IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturership 2011, IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Award 2011, IEEE Communications Society 2010 Outstanding Young Researcher Award for EMEA region, IBM Faculty Award 2008 & 2010, TÜBA (Turkish Academy of Sciences) Distinguished Young Scientist Award 2008 and TÜBİTAK-Career Award 2005.

He is acting as an Inaugural Associate Editor for IEEE Networking Letters, Associate Editor for IET Communications and Editor for Nano Communication Networks Journal (Elsevier). He also acted as a Series Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine (2018-2020), Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2007-2017), IEEE Transactions on Communications (2013-2017), as the General Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2017 and ACM MOBICOM 2012, and as the Steering Committee Member for IEEE INFOCOM and ACM NanoCom.

Awards

Turing Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute (Oct. 2021)

AXA Chair in Internet of Everything, AXA Research Fund (2020)

ACM NanoCom Outstanding Milestone Award (2019)

ERC PoC Grant, European Research Council (ERC) (2018-2019)

IEEE Nanotechnology Council Distinguished Lecturer (Jan. 2017-Dec. 2017)

IEEE Fellow (for contributions to wireless sensor networks) (2016)

Best Paper Award, IEEE ISCC 2016, Messina, Italy (2016)

ERC Consolidator Grant, European Research Council (ERC) (2014-2019)

IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Prize (2011)

IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (Jan. 2011-Dec. 2012)

IEEE Communications Society 2010 Outstanding Young Researcher Award for EMEA Region (2011)

IBM Faculty Prize (2008 & 2010)

Editor of the Year Award, Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier Science) (2006)

Best Paper Award, IEEE ISCN 2006, Istanbul, Turkey (2006)

Researcher of the Year 2003 Award, Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (2003)

Publications

M. Kuscu, E. Dinc, B. A. Bilgin, H. Ramezani, O. B. Akan, "Transmitter and Receiver Architectures for Molecular Communications: A Survey on Physical Design with Modulation, Coding and Detection Techniques," to appear in Proceedings of the IEEE, 2019.
K. Cepni, M. Ozger, O. B. Akan, "Event Estimation Accuracy of Social Sensing with Facebook for Social Internet of Vehicles," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 2449-2456, August 2018.
M. Ozger, F. Alagoz, O. B. Akan, "Clustering in Multi-Channel Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks", IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 156-162, April 2018.
O. B. Akan, O. Cetinkaya, C. Koca, M. Ozger, "Internet of Hybrid Energy Harvesting Things," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 736-746, April 2018.
N. A. Abbasi, D. Lafci, O. B. Akan, "Controlled Information Transfer Through An In Vivo Nervous System," Nature Scientific Reports, vol. 8, pp. 2298, February 2018.
T. Long, M. Ozger, O. Cetinkaya, O. B. Akan, "Energy Neutral Internet of Drones," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 22-28, January 2018.
C. Koca, O. B. Akan, "Anarchy vs. Cooperation on Internet of Molecular Things," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 1445-1453, October 2017.
O. Cetinkaya, O. B. Akan, "Electric-field Energy Harvesting from Lighting Elements for Battery-less Internet of Things," IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 7423-7434, April 2017.
O. B. Akan, H. Ramezani, T. Khan, N. A. Abbasi, M. Kuscu, "Fundamentals of Molecular Information and Communication Science," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 105, no. 2, pp. 306-318, February 2017.
M. Kuscu, A. Kiraz, O. B. Akan, "Fluorescent Molecules as Transceiver Nanoantennas: The First Practical and High-Rate Information Transfer over a Nanoscale Communication Channel based on FRET," Nature Scientific Reports, vol. 5, pp. 7831, January 2015.
D. Kilinc, O. B. Akan, "Receiver Design for Molecular Communication," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 31, no. 12, pp. 705-714, December 2013.
B. Atakan, S. Balasubramaniam, O. B. Akan, "Body Area NanoNetworks with Molecular Communications in Nanomedicine," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 28-34, January 2012.
O. B. Akan, O. B. Karli, O. Ergul, "Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks," IEEE Network, vol. 23, no.4, pp. 34-40, July 2009.
B. Atakan, O. B. Akan, "An Information Theoretical Approach for Molecular Communication," in Proc. ICST/ACM BIONETICS 2007, Budapest, Hungary, December 2007.
O. B. Akan, I. F. Akyildiz,"Event-to-Sink Reliable Transport in Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 1003-1016, October 2005.
O. B. Akan, J. Fang, I. F. Akyildiz, "TP-Planet: A Reliable Transport Protocol for InterPlaNetary Internet," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 348-361, February 2004.