Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara, Turkey
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Metin Ozturk (Senior Member, IEEE) is an Assistant Professor of Telecommunications at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University (AYBU), Türkiye, where he also serves as the Director of the AYBU Non-Terrestrial Networks Laboratory (AYBU NTN-Lab). From 2023 to 2024, he served as a Visiting Professor at the Non-Terrestrial Networks Lab at Carleton University (Carleton NTN-Lab), Canada. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Türkiye, in 2013; the M.Sc. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Türkiye, in 2016; and the Ph.D. degree from the Communication, Sensing, and Imaging (CSI) Research Group in the James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK, in 2020. His research interests include wireless communications, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence-driven mobile networking, non-terrestrial networks (NTN), and sustainable wireless network design. He has co-authored nearly 60 publications in leading journals, conferences, and book chapters. He has delivered more than 15 talks, including keynotes, seminars, tutorials, and invited talks, at national and international events such as the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, the IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference, and the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). He has also organized a workshop at flagship IEEE conference IEEE WCNC and served as a guest editor for special issues in leading international journals.
