Ian F. Akyildiz
President and CTO of the Truva Inc
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| 2021 | Became an adjunct professor at the University of Helsinki |
| 2021 | Retired from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech after almost 35 years of service |
| September 2021 | Received Best Paper Award for 'Automatic Network Slicing for Resource Allocation in Underwater Acoustic Communication Systems' at the Fourth International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking (BalkanCom). |
| 2020 | Became an adjunct professor at the University of Iceland |
| October 2 2020 | Filed US Patent Application No. 63/091712 with A. Kak for 'A Low-Overhead Online Routing Scheme for Ultra-Dense Software-Defined CubeSat Networks' |
| August 2020 | Became Founder and Editor in Chief of the ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies (ITU-J FET). |
| August 15 2020 | Filed US Patent Application No. 63/091666 with A. Kak for 'Large-Scale Constellation Design Framework' |
| June 1 2020 | Filed WO Patent Application No. WO2020124076A1 with A. Kak and S. Nie for 'Network Employing Cube Satellites' |
| June 1 2020 | Joined the advisory board of the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |
| February 7 2020 | Filed patent with A. Pitsillides, Christos Liaskos, A. Tsioliaridou, and S. Ioannides on 'Wireless communication paradigm: realizing programmable wireless environments through software-controlled metasurfaces' |
| January 2020 | Acquired a patent for HyperSurface tile technology, a novel metamaterial enabling deterministic and programmable control over electromagnetic wave behavior in wireless communications environments. |
| 2019 | Concluded editorial roles for Computer Networks Journal, Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Physical Communication Journal, and Nano Communication Networks Journal, becoming Editor-in-Chief Emeritus for these publications. |
| March 19 2019 | Filed patent with M. Luo and S.-C. Lin on 'Maximize network capacity policy with heavy-tailed traffic' |
| 2018 | Became Megagrant Research Leader and Advisor to the Director of the Institute for Information Transmission Problems at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia |
| December 11 2018 | Filed patent with M. Luo and S.-C. Lin on 'Software defined network traffic congestion control' |
| December 4 2018 | Awarded 'Pioneer Award in Underwater Communication' at the 13th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet'18) in Shenzhen, China, recognizing his significant contributions to underwater communication networks. |
| October 30 2018 | Received U.S. Patent No. 10,117,042 with H.K. Schmidt, S.-C. Lin, and A.A. Al-Shehri for 'Environment-aware cross-layer communication protocol in underground oil reservoirs' |
| October 2 2018 | Filed patent with M. Luo and S.-C. Lin on 'Multi-controller control traffic balancing in software defined networks' |
| August 14 2018 | Filed patent with H.K. Schmidt, S.-C. Lin, and A.A. Al-Shehri on 'Magnetic induction based localization for wireless sensor networks in underground oil reservoirs' |
| 2017 | Became an adjunct professor at the University of Cyprus |
| November 21 2017 | Received patent B2 with J. M. Jornet on 'Ultra Massive MIMO Communication in the Terahertz Band' |
| October 2017 | Received IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN) Recognition Award for pioneering contributions to spectrum sensing, spectrum sharing algorithms and communication protocols for cognitive radio networks. |
| May 9 2017 | Filed patent with J. M. Jornet on 'Graphene-based Plasmonic Nano-antenna for Terahertz Band Communication' |
| July 19 2016 | Filed patent with J.M. Jornet on 'Graphene-based Plasmonic Nano-Transceiver employing HEMT for Terahertz Band Communication' |
| March 10 2015 | Received patent B2 with D. Gutierrez-Estevez and E. Chavarria-Reyes on 'Femto-Relay Systems and Methods of Managing Same' |
| September 2014 | Received ACM MSWIM Reginald A. Fassenden Award for pioneering contributions in modeling and analysis of cellular and multihop wireless communication systems. |
| November 2013 | Awarded Humboldt Research Prize from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. |
| January 2013 | Received FiDiPro (Finland Distinguished Professor) Professorship at Tampere University of Technology, Department of Communications Engineering, supported by the Academy of Science in Finland, for a 4-year term. |
| December 2011 | Received TUBITAK (Turkish National Science Foundation) Exclusive Award for outstanding contributions to scholarship/research at the international level. |
| May 2011 | Awarded IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award for pioneering contributions to wireless sensor network architectures and communication protocols. |
| 2010 | Became founding Editor-in-Chief of Nano Communication Networks (NANOCOMNET) Journal (Elsevier). |
| December 2010 | Received IEEE Communications Society Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Technical Committee (AHSN TC) Technical Recognition Award for pioneering contributions to wireless sensor networks and wireless mesh networks. |
| December 2010 | Received Best Paper Award for 'Deployment Algorithms for Wireless Underground Sensor Networks using Magnetic Induction' at the IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom). |
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