Dr. Akyildiz is ranked #20 in the world ranking and #10 in the United States according to research.com, a leading academic platform for researchers, has just released the 2022 Edition of their Ranking of Top 1000 Scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering on March 3, 2022.
Dr. Ian F. Akyildiz
Prof. Ian Akyildiz became the most cited researcher in his former department, the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, on July 1, 2022. [PHOTO]
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Prof. Akyildiz is the General Chair of “The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Metaverse”, December 15-18, China.
Dr. Akyildiz will give a keynote at Very Large Internet of Things (VLIoT 2022) with the title “Metaverse: Challenges for extended reality and hologram type communication in the next decade”, September 8, 2022. [SLIDES]
Dr. Akyildiz will give a keynote at 1st Abu Dhabi 6G Summit with the title “Metaverse: A communication Challenge for 6G Wireless Systems”, November 3-4, 2022.
Prof Akyildiz publications reached 180,000 reads due to Research Gate on April 29, 2022. [PHOTO]
Dr. Akyildiz gave a seminar at ARRC Seminar Series with the title “Metaverse: Challenges for extended reality and hologram type communication in the next decade”, July 5, 2022.
IEEE COMSOC published the list of most influential papers [LINK].
Dr. Akyildiz with Rui Dai, Chen Chen, and Pu Wang gave a tutorial “Holographic Networking: A New Frontier in Communication” at the IEEE ICC conference, in Seoul, Korea, May 20-22, 2022.
Tutorial: https://icc2022.ieee-icc.org/program/tutorials#tut-18
Prof. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Lecture at the University of Miami, on April 29, 2022 (02:30 PM Eastern Time). Zoom link is https://miami.zoom.us/j/93637370581 [POSTER] [SLIDES].
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Dr. Akyildiz received for the second time “the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Award” to visit his Alma Mater, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, for a research stay during 2022-2023 fiscal year on March 18, 2022.