Ian F. Akyildiz

Ian F. Akyildiz (Originally İlhan Fuat Akyıldız) is the Ken Byers Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), the Director of the Broadband Wireless Networking (BWN) Laboratory and Chair of the Telecommunications Group at the School of ECE at Georgia Tech.
According to Google Scholar, his H-index is 122 and the total number of citations to his papers is 116+K.
His current research interests are in Terahertz Communications, Nanonetworks, Internet of NanoThings, Internet of BioNanothings, 5G/6G Wireless Systems, Internet of Space Things/CUBESATs, and Wireless Sensor Networks in Challenged Environments.
Biography.
He was born in Istanbul, Turkey, on April 11, 1954. He went to high school in Austria. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 1978, 1981 and 1984, respectively.
Editing career.
He is the Emeritus Editor-in-Chief of "Computer Networks Journal" (2000-2019). He is also the Emeritus founding Editor-in-Chief of the "Ad Hoc Networks Journal" (2003-2019). In addition, he is the Emeritus Founding Editor in Chief of both journals, i.e., "Physical Communication Journal" (2008-2017) and "Nanocommunication Networks Journal" (2010-2017).
He is a former editor for "IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking" (1996–2001), "Kluwer Journal of Cluster Computing" (1997–2001), "ACM-Springer Journal for Multimedia Systems" (1995–2002), for "IEEE Transactions on Computers" (1992–1996) as well as for "ACM-Springer Journal of Wireless Networks" (WINET) (1995–2005).
He served as a guest-editor for several special issues of various journals between 1988–2001 including "Networks in Metropolitan Areas" in October 1992 and "Mobility and Resource Management in Next Generation Wireless Systems" in October 2001 for IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications.
Conferences.
He was the technical program chair of the 9th IEEE Computer Communications workshop in 1994.
Together with Imrich Chlamtac, in 1995, he launched the ACM MOBICOM (International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking), which is now the premier conference in the broad field of wireless networking, and he was the Technical Program Chair for MOBICOM'96 and MOBICOM'02.
He was also Technical Program Chair for IEEE INFOCOM'98 (Computer Networking Conference) and IEEE ICC'2003 (International Conference on Communications).
He is the Co-Founder of the ACM SenSys (Sensor Systems) Conference and General Co-Chair of the ACM SenSys'03, which took place in Los Angeles in November 2003.
He was the General Chair for Third Med Hoc (Mediterranean Conference on Ad Hoc Networks), in Bodrum, Turkey, June 2004, and the General Chair of the IFIP Networking'07 Conference in Atlanta, May 2007.
In order to help and boost the research activities in the Black Sea region countries, in 2013 he established the IEEE BlackSeaCom Conference (International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking), whose first edition took place in Batumi, Georgia.
Similarly, to help to connect the Balkan countries to the Western research world, he launched the BalkanCom conference [ [BalkanCom ] ] in Tirana, Albania in 2017. 
He is also the Founder of the ACM NANOCOM (International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication), which he launched in May 2013 with the goal of accelerating the nanoscale computing, communication and networking research activities.
He gives keynote speeches at many international conferences, delivers distinguished seminars and teaches tutorials/classes worldwide.
He currently serves on the advisory boards of several research centers, journals, conferences and companies.
Textbooks.
Dr. Akyildiz is the author of the following books: