{"id":5421,"date":"2025-06-04T09:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T13:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/?p=5421"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:20:07","slug":"professor-halim-yanikomeroglu-and-team-win-carletons-first-ip-impact-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/2025\/professor-halim-yanikomeroglu-and-team-win-carletons-first-ip-impact-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Halim Yanikomeroglu and Team Win Carleton\u2019s First IP Impact Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Professor Halim Yanikomeroglu and Team Win Carleton\u2019s First IP Impact Award\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2025.05.15-CarletonIPAwardCelebration-4-240x427.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2025.05.15-CarletonIPAwardCelebration-4-240x427.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2025.05.15-CarletonIPAwardCelebration-4-160x284.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2025.05.15-CarletonIPAwardCelebration-4-768x1365.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2025.05.15-CarletonIPAwardCelebration-4-400x711.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2025.05.15-CarletonIPAwardCelebration-4-864x1536.jpeg 864w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2025.05.15-CarletonIPAwardCelebration-4-1152x2048.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2025.05.15-CarletonIPAwardCelebration-4-360x640.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carleton University has awarded its very first <strong data-start=\"232\" data-end=\"251\">IP Impact Award<\/strong> to a team behind an exciting advancement in satellite communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong data-start=\"323\" data-end=\"356\">Professor Halim Yanikomeroglu<\/strong> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/\"><strong data-start=\"366\" data-end=\"416\">Department of Systems and Computer Engineering<\/strong><\/a>, along with <strong data-start=\"429\" data-end=\"452\">Mohammed Abdelsadek<\/strong> (former postdoc) and <strong data-start=\"474\" data-end=\"498\">Gunes Karabulut Kurt<\/strong> (adjunct research professor), developed a patented system that allows <strong data-start=\"569\" data-end=\"587\">LEO satellites<\/strong> to connect directly with handheld devices using distributed MIMO technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The innovation, created in Carleton\u2019s <strong data-start=\"704\" data-end=\"736\">Non-Terrestrial Networks Lab<\/strong>, has already caught the attention of industry\u2014<strong data-start=\"783\" data-end=\"796\">MDA Space<\/strong>, a leading Canadian aerospace company, has purchased the technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This marks a big step toward making <strong data-start=\"903\" data-end=\"943\">satellite-to-smartphone connectivity<\/strong> a reality, and a proud moment for innovation at Carleton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read full article <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/kanata\/2025\/carleton-celebrates-real-world-innovation-and-impact-with-inaugural-ip-award\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University has awarded its very first IP Impact Award to a team behind an exciting advancement in satellite communications. Professor Halim Yanikomeroglu from the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, along with Mohammed Abdelsadek (former postdoc) and Gunes Karabulut Kurt (adjunct research professor), developed a patented system that allows LEO satellites to connect directly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5428,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions\/5428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}