The appointment is based on the request of the UPC Telecom Faculty members and on the recognition of Professor Akyildiz's outstanding academic and research activities in Telecommunications Engineering the last 25 years.

BIOGRAPHY

Prof. IAN F. AKYILDIZ is the Ken Byers Distinguished Chair Professor and Director of Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory at School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology since 20 years. Professor Akyildiz is Editor-in-Chief of Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal, Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) and Physical Communication (PHYCOM) Elsevier) journals.

Professor Akyildiz is an IEEE Fellow (1995), an ACM Fellow (1996). He received several IEEE and ACM Awards including IEEE Leonard Abraham Best paper award from IEEE JSAC in 1997, IEEE Best Tutorial paper award in 2003, IEEE Harry Goode Memorial Award (IEEE Computer Society), 2003 ACM SIGMOBILE award for his pioneering contributions in mobility and resource management in wireless networks, ACM Best Distinguished Lecturer Award in 1994, Georgia Tech Faculty Research Author Award in 2004 and School of ECE/Georgia Tech Distinguished Faculty Award in 2005.

Dr. Akyildiz guest edited several special issues and organized many leading conferences such as IEEE INFOCOM 1998, IEEE ICC 2003, ACM MOBICOM 1996 and 2002 and many others. His current research interests are Wireless Mesh Networks, Cognitive Radio Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks.