• Associate Professor, Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (Aug. 2016-Present)
• Courtesy Assistant Professor, Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL (Aug. 2016-Present)
• Assistant Professor, Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL (Aug. 2012-Aug. 2016)
• Consultant, Motorola Solutions Inc., Plantation, FL (June-July 2012)
• Research Engineer, DOCOMO Innovations, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (June 2006-Aug. 2012)
  
• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (May 2006)
• Research Intern at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), Boston, MA (Jan. 2005-Aug. 2005)
• M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (Dec. 2002)
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey (May 2001)

Biography

• Full Bio: Dr. Ismail Guvenc (senior member, IEEE) received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of South Florida in 2006. He was with Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs during 2005, with DOCOMO Innovations between 2006-2012, and with Florida International University between 2012-2016. Since 2016, he has been an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. His recent research interests include 5G wireless systems, communications and networking with drones, and heterogeneous wireless networks. He has published more than 200 conference/journal papers and book chapters, and several standardization contributions. He co-authored/co-edited three books for Cambridge University Press, served as an editor for IEEE Communications Letters (2010-2015), IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (2011-2016), and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2016-present), and as a guest editor for several other journals. Dr. Guvenc is an inventor/coinventor in some 30 U.S. patents. He is a recipient of the FIU College of Engineering Faculty Research Award (2016), NSF CAREER Award (2015), Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (2014), and USF Outstanding Dissertation Award (2006). 
• 75-Word Bio: Dr. Ismail Guvenc (senior member, IEEE) has been an Associate Professor at North Carolina State University since August 2016. His recent research interests include 5G wireless networks, UAV communications, and heterogeneous networks. He has published more than 160 conference/journal papers, several standardization contributions, three books, and over 30 U.S. patents. He is a recipient of the 2015 NSF CAREER Award, 2014 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award, and 2006 USF Outstanding Dissertation Award.