Sennur Ulukus named IEEE Fellow

Professor Sennur Ulukus (ECE/ISR) has been elevated to Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) “for contributions to characterizing performance limits of wireless networks,” effective Jan. 1, 2016. Ulukus’s wide-ranging and active research interests include cognitive radio networks, wireless network security, and energy-harvesting and rechargeable networks. She is an NSF CAREER Award recipient for “A Network Information Theoretic Approach to Wireless Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks” (2005) and a winner of the IEEE Marconi Paper Prize Award in Wireless Communications for “Wireless Systems and Interference Avoidance” (2003). The IEEE Board of Directors confers the Fellow title upon those with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement. About IEEE
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Published December 1, 2015