IEEE Positions
- IEEE ComSoc Fellow Evaluation Committee Member (January 2022 – …)
- IEEE Turkey Section Chair (December 2015 – December 2019)
- IEEE ComSoc Awards Committee Member (January 2016 – December 2018)
- IEEE 802.15.7r1/802.15.13 Short-Range Optical Wireless Communications Task Group Member (January 2015 – December 2017)
Editorial Positions
- Area Editor, IEEE Transactions on Communications (February 2021 – present)
- Editor, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (October 2003 – March 2011 & May 2015 – December 2019)
- Editor, IEEE Transactions on Communications (November 2011 – December 2016)
- Editor, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (May 2011 – December 2015)
- Editor, Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (December 2010 – December 2015)
- Editor, Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (July 2011 – July 2015)
- Editor, IEEE Communications Letters (May 2004 – April 2012)
- Lead Guest Editor, Elsevier Physical Communications, Special Issue on “Optical Wireless Communications”, July 2018.
- Guest Co-Editor, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Special Issue on “Optical Wireless Communications”, December 2009 and September 2015
- Guest Co-Editor, Wiley Journal on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Special Issue on “MIMO Communications”, October 2004
Major Executive Positions in Conference Organizations
- Technical Programme Committee Co-Chair, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Honolulu, Hawai, September 2019
- Technical Programme Committee Co-Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Istanbul, Turkey, September 2019
- Workshop General Chair, International Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (IWOW), Istanbul, Turkey, September 2015
- Technical Programme Committee Co-Chair, IEEE Wireless Communication and Networks Conference (WCNC), Istanbul, Turkey, April 2014
Other Executive Positions in Conference and Workshop Organizations
- Awards Co-Chair, IEEE Wireless Communication and Networks Conference (WCNC), Dubai, UAE, March 2023.
- Technical Programme Committee Co-Chair, IEEE Workshop on Optical Wireless Communication (co-located with the IEEE WCNC’23), Glasgow, Scotland, March 2023.
- Technical Programme Committee Co-Chair, International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communicatins (IUCC), Chongqing, China, December 2022.
- International Advisory Committee Member, 1st International Conference on Maritime IT Convergence, Jeju Island, Korea, September 2022.
- Workshop Co-Chair, 7th IEEE ICC Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (co-located with IEEE ICC’22), Seoul, South Korea, May 2022
- Technical Programme Committee Co-Chair, IEEE Workshop on Optical Wireless Communication for Enhanced Connectivity in 6G (co-located with the IEEE PIMRC’21), Helsinki, Finland, September 2021
- Tutorial and Keynote Co-Chair, IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom), Bucharest, Romania, June 2021
- Symposium Co-Chair, International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Wireless Optical Networks Symposium, Limassol, Cyprus, June 2018
- Symposium Co-Chair, International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Wireless Optical Networks Symposium, Valencia, Spain, June 2017
- Technical Programme Committee Co-Chair, 1st International Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications for 5G and Beyond (co-located with European Wireless), Dresden, Germany, May 2017
- Technical Programme Committee Co-Chair, IEEE Workshop on Optical Wireless Communication (co-located with the IEEE WCNC’16), Doha, Qatar, April 2016.
- Technical Programme Committee Co-Chair, IEEE Workshop on Optical Wireless Communication (co-located with the IEEE GLOBECOM’15), San Diego, California, USA, December 2015
- Technical Programme Committee Co-Chair, IEEE Workshop on Optical Wireless Communication (co-located with the IEEE GLOBECOM’13), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, December 2013
- Technical Programme Committee Co-Chair, International Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (IWOW), Pisa, Italy, October 2012.
- Tutorial Chair, IEEE 20th Signal Processing, Communication and Applications Conference (SIU’12), Mugla, Turkey, April 2012.
- Symposium Co-Chair, International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Communication and Information Theory Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2011.
- Tutorial Chair, IEEE Wireless Communication and Networks Conference (WCNC), Cancun, Mexico, March 2011.
- Symposium Chair, Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), Communications and Networking Symposium, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, May 2008
- Track Co-Chair, International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems (ICCCAS), Communication Theory Track, Xiamen, Fujian, China, May 2008
- TPC Sub-Committee Co-Chair, IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS), Wireless System Architectures, Modeling, and Adaptive Signal Processing Sub-Committee, Florida, USA, January 2008
- Symposium Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Communication Theory Symposium, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, June 2007
- Track Co-Chair, International Conference on Digital Telecommunications (ICDT), Data Processing Track, Côte d’Azur, France, August 2006