Ferdi Kara, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University
Computer Engineering
Incivez, Zonguldak, Turkey, 67100,
E-mail: f.kara[at]beun.edu.tr,
f.kara[at]ieee.org
Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University
Computer Engineering
Incivez, Zonguldak, Turkey, 67100,
E-mail: f.kara[at]beun.edu.tr,
f.kara[at]ieee.org
On Living
you should take living seriously,
to such extent, for example,
to be able to die for people,
with your arms tied, your back against the wall,
or in a laboratory, with your huge eye glasses in your white coat,
to die for people whose faces you haven’t seen even once,
and even then when no one has forced you to do so,
while knowing that living is the most beautiful the most real thing.
Nazım Hikmet Ran
Yaşamaya Dair
Yaşamayı ciddiye alacaksın,
yani o derecede, öylesine ki,
mesela, kolların bağlı arkadan, sırtın duvarda,
yahut kocaman gözlüklerin,
beyaz gömleğinle bir laboratuvarda insanlar için ölebileceksin,
hem de yüzünü bile görmediğin insanlar için,
hem de hiç kimse seni buna zorlamamışken,
hem de en güzel en gerçek şeyin
yaşamak olduğunu bildiğin halde
Nazım
Biography : Ferdi Kara (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree (Hons.) in electronics and communication engineering from Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey, in 2011, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and electronics engineering from Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University (ZBEU), Zonguldak, Türkiye, in 2015 and 2019, respectively.
Since 2011, he has been working with the Wireless Communication Technologies Research Laboratory. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Engineering, ZBEU. He is also a postdoctoral fellow at the Division of Communications, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He was a Senior Research Associate with the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada between 2021-2023. His research interests span future wireless communication systems (e.g., PHY aspects such as NOMA, MIMO/RIS/LIS systems, cooperative communication, index modulations, energy harvesting, faster than Nyquist signaling, and machine learning algorithms in communications) and architectures (e.g., non-terrestrial networks, seamless integration, and disaster-resilient communication systems).
Dr. Kara’s Ph.D. thesis is awarded the Best Ph.D. Thesis by IEEE Türkiye Section, in 2021, and Turkish Academy of Science (TÜBA), in 2022. He has been listed among World’s Top %2 Scientist List by Stanford University and Elsevier, in 2022 and 2023. He has been awarded the 2020 Premium Award for Best Paper in IET Communications and the Best Early Researcher Paper Award in IEEE Blakcseacom2021. He received the Best Editor Certificate by IEEE Communications Letters in 2022. He also received an Exemplary Reviewer Certificate from IEEE Transactions on Communications in 2022 and from IEEE Communications Letters from 2019 to 2022 in a row of four years. He regularly serves as a Technical Program Committee Member in flagship IEEE conferences (e.g., ICC, Globecom, VTC, and WCNC). He is also an Editor of IEEE Communications Letters, an Associate Editor of EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking, and an Area Editor of Physical Communication (Elsevier).