Academic Activities

Professional contributions, leadership roles, and academic service across the wireless communications community

Editorship

IEEE Communications Letters

Associate Editor

Overseeing peer review and evaluation of channel coding manuscripts, ensuring technical rigor, editorial quality, and impactful contributions to the communications research community

2023 - Present

Sensors Journal

Lead Guest Editor

Lead Guest Editor for the special issue "VLSI Architectures for Wireless Communications and Digital Signal Processing"

2023

Journal Reviewing

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Regular Reviewer

Peer review of high-impact communications research papers

2019 - Present

IEEE Communications Letters

Regular Reviewer

Review of communications letters and short papers

2019 - Present

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Regular Reviewer

Review of signal processing and communications papers

2019 - Present

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems

Regular Reviewer

Review of circuits and systems papers

2019 - Present

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Regular Reviewer

Review of solid-state circuits and VLSI papers

2019 - Present

... and many others

Regular Reviewer

200+ reviews for 40+ additional high-impact journals in communications, algorithms, signal processing, and VLSI systems

2019 - Present

Conference Organization & Leadership

IEEE GLOBECOM 2025

Wireless Communications Track TPC

Technical Program Committee member for the premier global communications conference

2025

IEEE GLOBECOM 2024

Wireless Communications Track TPC

Technical Program Committee member for wireless communications

2024

IEEE VTC Spring 2023

ML and AI for Communications Track

Technical Program Committee for machine learning in communications

2023

IEEE INFOCOM 2023

5G and Beyond Wireless Security Track

Technical Program Committee for wireless security

2023

IEEE GLOBECOM 2022

5G and Beyond Wireless Security Chair

Led the wireless security track organization and management

2022

IEEE Future Networks World Forum 2022

Academia & Industry Demonstrations Chair

Coordinated industry and academic demonstrations

2022

Professional Volunteering & Leadership

IEEE Montreal Section

Vice-Chair

Leadership role in the local IEEE section, organizing events and supporting the engineering community

2021

IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee

Active Member

Contributing to the advancement of wireless communications technology and standards

2022

McGill IEEE Student Branch

Chair

Led student activities and professional development initiatives

2017

IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE)

Founding Member

Established and promoted women's participation in engineering at McGill

2017

IEEE METU NCC Student Branch

Founder/Chair

Established the IEEE student branch and served as its first chair

2011

Teaching & Mentoring

Computer Organization

McGill University | ECSE 234

Taught computer architecture and organization principles

2017 - 2020

Digital Logic

McGill University | ECSE 222

Instructed digital logic design and implementation

2019 - 2020

Digital Systems

McGill University | ECSE 325

Led digital systems design and analysis

2018 - 2019

VLSI Design

Middle East Technical University

Taught very large scale integration design principles

2013 - 2015

Computer Architecture

Middle East Technical University

Instructed computer architecture I & II courses

2013 - 2015

Conference Reviewing

IEEE ICASSP

International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

Peer review of signal processing and communications papers

2024

IEEE WCNC

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference

Regular reviewer for wireless communications research

2017-2025

IEEE ICC

International Conference on Communications

Peer review of communications research papers

2019

IEEE ISIT

International Symposium on Information Theory

Review of information theory and coding papers

2017

Extracurricular Activities

Nature & Nightscape Photography

Creative Expression

Passionate photographer with work featured on 500px Gallery

Ongoing

Native American Flute

Honorary Member

Amateur player and honorary member of Cascadia Flute Circle in Oregon, USA

Ongoing

Literary Writing

Published Author

Published in "An Anthology of Contemporary Love Poems" and The Blue Fog Journal

2010

Fitness & Wellness

Active Lifestyle

Hiking, jogging, yoga, swimming, meditation, and skiing for physical and mental well-being

Ongoing