Bio
Ali Riza Ekti (Senior Member, IEEE) is from Tarsus, Türkiye. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Texas A&M University. He worked as an Assistant Professor with the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Balikesir University and held the Group Leader positions for Speech and Natural Language Processing Lab. and Communication and Signal Processing Research Laboratory (HISAR) Lab., TÜBİTAK BİLGEM, where he was responsible for research and development activities in the wireless communications and signal processing.
In January 2022, he joined Grid Communications and Security Research Group at Electrification and Energy Infrastructures Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Knoxville, TN, USA, where he is currently a Senior R&D Staff Member. Starting December 1, 2022, he also became a joint Associate Professor faculty at University Tennessee-Bredesen Center. His current research interests include statistical signal processing, smart grid anomaly detection and classification, wireless sensor networks, wireless propagation channel modeling, optimization, machine learning in 5G and beyond systems and smart grid.
Professional Experience
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, U.S.A. January 2022 – Present
Grid Communications and Security Group (Senior R&D Staff Member) - University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, U.S.A. December 2022 – Present
Cross–Cutting Energy Sciences (Joint Associate Professor) - TUBITAK BILGEM National Research Center, Gebze, Turkey February 2017 – December 2021
Communication and Signal Processing Research Laboratory (Group Leader) - TUBITAK BILGEM National Research Center, Gebze, Turkey March 2018 – March 2021
Speech and Natural Language Processing Lab. (Group Leader)
Education
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering - Texas A&M University (TAMU), College Station, TX 08/2010 – 08/2015
Dissertation: Heterogeneous Wireless Networks: Traffic Offloading, Resource Allocation and Coverage Analysis - M.Sc, Electrical Engineering - University of South Florida (USF), Tampa, FL 08/2008 – 12/2009
- B.Sc, Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Mersin University (MU), Mersin, TR 09/2002 – 06/2006
Professional Service
- IEEE Senior Member
- Editor, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters