- Mustafa Prize, October 2023 (The Mustafa Prize was established in 2015 for the recognition of outstanding researchers and scientists of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation member states and is referred to as the “Muslim Nobel” by the Science Magazine.)
- Outstanding Service Award, IEEE Turkey Section, November 2021
- Elected to the Science Academy (https://en.bilimakademisi.org/), November 2021
- Best Student Paper Award, 12th IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), July 2020.
- Gold Medal, 4th Istanbul International Invention Fair (ISIF’19), September 2019
- Best Paper Award, IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (IEEE BlackSeaCom), June 2019
- IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award, April 2019.
- Elevation to IEEE Fellow “for contributions to cooperative and diversity techniques in wireless and optical communications”, January 2019
- Honorary Professor, University of Warwick, UK, June 2018
- Elginkan Foundation Technology Award for contributions to “optical wireless communication technologies for beyond 5G wireless networks”, January 2018
- Selected as 2017 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate in recognition of “ranking among the top 1% of researchers for most cited documents in computer science”, November 2017
- Listed among the list of Top 100 Turkish Scientists prepared by the leading business magazine Turkishtime, May 2017
- National Instruments (NI) Engineering Impact Award, RF and Mobile Communications Category Winner, May 2017
- Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference in Communications (ICC), May 2016
- Best Researcher Award, Ozyegin University, June 2014
- Distinguished Young Scientist Award, Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA), May 2011.
- Engineering Research Excellence Award, University of Waterloo, September 2010
- NSERC Discovery Accelator Award, June 2008 (The objective of this program is described on NSERC website as “…to provide substantial and timely resources to a small group of outstanding researchers who have a well-established research program, and who show strong potential to become international leaders in their respective area of research”)
- Honorary Mention in the Best Student Paper Award, Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE’08), May 2008
- Second Best Student Paper Award, IEEE 16th Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference, SIU’08, April 2008
- Senior IEEE Member, August 2007
- Marsland Faculty Fellowship for “recognition of excellence in teaching and research in the area of information and communication technology”, University of Waterloo, September 2004
- Best Student Paper Award in IEEE 6th Signal Processing, Communication and Applications Conference, SIU’98, Ankara, Turkey, May 1998
- First ranking in M.Sc. graduation, Istanbul Technical University, February 1998