Ismail Guvenc

Biography

Dr. Ismail Guvenc (Fellow, IEEE) received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of South Florida in 2006. He was with Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs in 2005, with DOCOMO Innovations between 2006-2012, and with Florida International University between 2012-2016. Since 2016, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, serving as a Full Professor since 2020. His recent research interests include 5G wireless systems, communications and networking with drones, and heterogeneous wireless networks. He has published more than 130 conference/journal papers and book chapters, and several standardization contributions. He co-authored/co-edited four books for Cambridge University Press and John Wiley & Sons, and served as an editor for IEEE Communications Letters (2010-2015), IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (2011-2016), IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications (2016-2021), Elsevier Physical Communications (2019-2020), and IEEE Trans. Communications (2020-Present), and as a guest editor for ten special issues for various journals. Dr. Guvenc is an inventor/coinventor of over 30 U.S. patents. He is the PI and the director for the NSF AERPAW project and the NC State site director for the NSF BWAC I/UCRC center. He is an IEEE Fellow, a senior member of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors, and a recipient of several awards, including the NC State University Faculty Scholar Award (2021), R. Ray Bennett Faculty Fellow Award (2019), FIU COE Faculty Research Award (2016), NSF CAREER Award (2015), Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award (2014), and USF Outstanding Dissertation Award (2006).

Education

• Ph.D. 2006
  Electrical Engineering
  University of South Florida, Tampa
• Master's 2003
  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• Bachelor's 2001
  Electrical Engineering
  Bilkent University, Turkey

Recent Publications

• A Survey on Detection, Classification, and Tracking of UAVs Using Radar and Communications Systems (2025)
• Coordinated Learning for Handover Management in 6G Networks with Transparent UAV Relays (2025)
• Digital Twins and Testbeds for Supporting AI Research with Autonomous Vehicle Networks (2025)
• Guest Editorial: Experimentation in Large-Scale Wireless Community Testbeds (2025)
• 3D Spectrum Awareness for Radio Dynamic Zones Using Kriging and Matrix Completion (2024)
• A mmWave Software-Defined Array Platform for Wireless Experimentation at 24-29.5 GHz (2024)
• Aerial RF and Throughput Measurements on a Non-Standalone 5G Wireless Network (2024)
• Coordinated Machine Learning for Handover in Mobile Networks with Transparent Relaying UAVs (2024)
• Enhanced Index-Based Feedback Overhead Reduction for WLANs (2024)
• Joint path planning and power allocation of a cellular-connected UAV using apprenticeship learning via deep inverse reinforcement learning (2024)

Involvement

• IEEE ComSoc Fellow Evaluation Committee
  Member (3 year term, 2021-2023)
• National Spectrum Consortium
  NC State Point of Contact (2016-Present)
• NSF AERPAW Platform
  Lead PI and Project Director (2019-Present)
• NSF BWAC I/UCRC Center
  NC State Site Director (2019-Present)
• IEEE Transactions on Communications
  Editor (2020-Present)
• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  Editor (2016-2021)
• Elsevier Physical Communications
  Editor (2019-2020)
• IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
  Editor (2011-2016)
• IEEE Communications Letters
  Editor (2010-2015)