Posted February 15, 2012 Atlanta, GA
Ian F. Akyildiz won the top academic award in the Republic of Turkey, the 2011 TUBITAK Exclusive Award, for outstanding contributions to the advancement of scholarship/research of a scholar with Turkish origin at an international level.
Honored specifically for his significant and pioneering work in telecommunications spanning 27 years, Dr. Akyildiz was presented with this award by the president of the Republic of Turkey Abdullah Gül on December 5 at Cankaya Palace, which is the president's home in city of Ankara.
Dr. Akyildiz has been on the Georgia Tech faculty since 1985 and has been on the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 1992. He is currently the Ken Byers Professor in Telecommunications and leads the Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory.
TUBITAK is the leading research management and funding agency in Turkey and is a very close equivalent to the National Science Foundation in the U.S. However, in addition to funding research projects, TUBITAK is also comprised of many different R&D institutes focused on various areas of engineering, sciences, and industrial management.
About the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is one of eight schools and departments in the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. All ECE undergraduate and graduate programs are in the top 10 of the most recent college rankings by U.S. News & World Report. Over 2,500 students are enrolled in the School’s graduate and undergraduate programs, and in the last academic year, 723 degrees were awarded.
Over 110 ECE faculty members are involved in 11 areas of research, education, and commercialization – bioengineering, computer systems and software, digital signal processing, electric power, electromagnetics, electronic design and applications, microsystems, optics and photonics, systems and controls, telecommunications, and VLSI systems and digital design.
About the Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the world's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities and the eighth best engineering and information technology university in the world by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities, Georgia Tech’s more than 20,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Business, and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and minority engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
