Ertugrul Basar

 Prof. Ertugrul Basar received the B.S. degree (with High Honors) from Istanbul University, Turkey, in 2007 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, in 2009 and 2013, respectively. He is a Professor of Wireless Systems at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tampere University, Finland. Before joining Tampere University, he held positions at Koç University from 2018 to 2025 and at Istanbul Technical University from 2009 to 2018. He also had visiting positions at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, as a Visiting Research Collaborator from 2011 to 2022, and at Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, as a Mercator Fellow in 2022. Prof. Basar’s primary research interests include 6G and beyond wireless communication systems, multi-antenna systems, index modulation, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, waveform design, zero-power and thermal noise communications, software-defined radio, physical layer security, quantum key distribution systems, and signal processing/deep learning for communications. He is the inventor of 17 pending/granted patents on future wireless technologies and the author of around 200 international journal publications that have received more than 17,000 citations.