Ahmet Mete Elbir

Associate Professor, Istinye University, 

Research Fellow, University of Luxembourg

e-mail: ahmetmelbir@ieee.org 

Short Bio:

Ahmet M. Elbir (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree with Honors from Firat University in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree from the Middle East Technical University (METU) in 2016, both in electrical engineering. He is currently an Associate Professor at Istinye University. He is also a Research Fellow at University of Luxembourg since 2021. In the past, he was a Research Fellow at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (2023-2025), the University of Hertfordshire (2021-2023), and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Koc University  (2020-2021) and Carleton University (2022-2023). He also worked as a Senior Researcher at Duzce University (2016-2022). His research interests include array signal processing for radar systems and wireless communications, and deep learning for multi-antenna systems. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems and a Senior Area Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, and a Lead Guest Editor for the special issues in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications and Standards Magazine, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing and Elsevier Signal Processing. He is also the Chair of IEEE SPS Synthetic Aperture Technical Working Group (TWG) and a member of IEEE AESS Integrated Sensing and Communications TWG. Dr. Elbir is the recipient of the METU Best Ph.D. thesis award (2016), the IEEE Turkey Section Research Encouragement Award (2022), and the IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation Best Paper Award (2022).



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