Asst. Prof. Dr. Tunçer Baykaş in KHAS Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department
15 April 2021Kadir Has University Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department continues to expand its academic staff. Recently, Asst. Prof. Dr. Tunçer Baykaş joined our team. We are happy and pleased to introduce our new colleague.
Tunçer Baykaş graduated from Boğaziçi University Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department in 2000 and received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa in 2007. He joined the National Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of Japan (NICT) the same year. During his tenure, he contributed to multiple standardization projects, including 802.15.3c, 802.11ad, and 1900.7. He represented NICT in International Communication Union. He served as the chair of IEEE 802.19.1 Coexistence in the TVWS Task Group.
Currently, he is the vice-chair of 802.19 Working Group and 802.11bb Light Communications Task Group. Also, he is serving as liaison officer between 802.19 and 802.11 groups. He was a co-founder of a technology startup. His research interests include THz communications, spectrum sharing, and radar signal processing.
Dr. Baykaş is one of the recipients of Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) Young Researcher Awards, IEEE-SA Standards Board Award, and IEEE-SA certificate of appreciation. He served as guest editor for IEEE Communications Magazine and was a board member of IEEE COMSOC MMTC E-Letters. He organized the 2017 Istanbul IEEE 5G Summit in Kadir Has University and the 2018 IEEE Standards Summits in Ankara and Istanbul. He is IEEE Turkey Board Member and IEEE Comsoc Turkey Chapter chair. Dr. Baykaş has over 50 major journal and conference publications, 3 US and 34 Japanese Patents.