Dr. Melda Yuksel Turgut
Adjunct Research Professor
BIO
Melda Yuksel is an associate professor at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. Dr. Yuksel received the B.S. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, NY, in August 2007. She worked at TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey, from 2007 to 2021. Dr. Yuksel is the recipient of the best paper award at the Communication Theory Symposium of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications and the 2012 Turkish National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Dr. Yuksel was the treasurer of 2013 IEEE International Symposium of Information Theory, and a TPC co-chair for the Communication Theory Symposium at IEEE GLOBECOM 2026 and 2023. She is currently serving as an editorial board member for IEEE Transactions on Communications.
Research Interests
- Faster than Nyquist signaling
- MIMO systems, precoding, beamforming
- Multi-user information theory