Ian F. Akyildiz
Ian F. Akyildiz (born April 11, 1954 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish computer scientist and engineer.
Akyildiz, whose father had a construction company (both parents died relatively early), went to school in Austria and studied computer science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with a diploma in 1981 and a doctorate in 1984 ( performance analysis of multiprocessor systems with process communication ). He is Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Director of the Broadband Wireless Networking (BWN) Laboratory.
He was visiting professor in Chile, Paris ( University Paris VI and Ecole nationale superieure des telecommunications), at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona , where he founded the N3Cat (NaNoNetworking Center in Catalunya), and in La Palma. He also holds an honorary professorship in Tampere, Finland, where he founded the Nano Communications Center (NCC).
Akyildiz is known, among other things, for research into wireless sensor networks .
In 2011 he received the W. Wallace McDowell Award . He is an IEEE Fellow (1996) and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 2011 he received the Turkish TÜBITAK Prize.
Fonts
- with X. Wang: Wireless Mesh Networks , Wiley 2009
- with MC Vuran Wireless Sensor Networks , Wiley 2010
- with Gunter Bolch Analysis of computing systems: analytical methods for performance evaluation and performance prediction , Teubner 1982
- as editor: Networking 2007: ad hoc and sensor networks, wireless networks, next generation Internet , Proceedings 6th International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 14.-18. May 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4479, Springer Verlag 2007
- with Gunter Bolch Analytic solution techniques for queuing network models of computer systems , reports from the Institute for Mathematical Machines and Data Processing, Informatik, Erlangen, Volume 14, No. 4, 1981
Web links
- Literature by and about Ian F. Akyildiz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage
- Author profile in the database zbMATH
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Akyildiz, Ian F. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Akyildiz, Ian Fuat |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish computer scientist and engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul |