TÜBA Member Prof. Arslan Receives Medal from NAI
Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Arslan, TÜBA Full Member and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Istanbul Medipol University was presented with his medal at a ceremony held in Washington, DC, as one of the 169 academic inventors selected by the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
NAI's Medal Ceremony was held in Washington, D.C., where NAI announced the academics of the year who have made outstanding discoveries on quality of life, economic development and the well-being of society. The winner of the medal, Prof. Arslan has more than 100 patents and applications in areas such as physical layer algorithms, waveform design, cognitive radio, spectrum sensing and wireless communication security, and more than 10 patents have been licensed to various companies.
Arslan, who is also the recipient of the TÜBA International Academy Award and known for his innovative work in the field of wireless communications, is also at the head of the team preparing Türkiye for 6G.
Who is Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Arslan?
He was born in 1968. He earned his Electrical and Electronics Engineering bachelor's degree from Middle East Technical University in 1992. After working as a research assistant at the same university for a year, he started his master's and doctoral studies in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Southern Methodist University in Texas, USA in 1993. He received his master's degree in 1995 and his doctorate degree in 1998. In January 1998, he started working at Ericsson's research laboratories in North Carolina; after working there for 4.5 years, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of South Florida as a faculty member in August 2002. In December 2013, he became the founding dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Istanbul Medipol University. While working at the University of South Florida, he also worked as a consultant for several international companies, including Anritsu, Lecroy, and XG Technologies. He has consulted with many Turkish companies and organizations such as Türksat, Savronik and TÜBİTAK.
In 2017, he was awarded the International TÜBA Academy Award in the field of Science and Engineering Sciences for his original, pioneering and groundbreaking work at the international level. In 2020, he was elected as a Full Member of TÜBA. Prof. Hüseyin Arslan continues his studies at Istanbul Medipol University.