Akyildiz (Originally Ilhan Fuat Akyildiz) is the Ken Byers Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), the Director of the Broadband Wireless Networking (BWN) Laboratory and Chair of the Telecommunications Group at the School of ECE at Georgia Tech.
Between 2007 and 2016, Dr.
Akyildiz was an Honorary Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering - Telecom BCN at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain, and the founder of the N3Cat (NaNoNetworking Center in Catalunya).
From 2011 until 2018, he was a Consulting Chair Professor with the King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Between 2012 and 2016, he was a FiDiPro Professor (Finland Distinguished Professor Program (FiDiPro) supported by the Academy of Finland) at Tampere University of Technology, Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Finland, and the founder of the NCC (Nano Communications Center).
From 2009 and 2012, he was an honorary professor with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and the founder of the Advanced Sensor Networks Lab.
According to Google Scholar, his H-index is 116 and the total number of citations to his papers is 106+K as of June 2019.
His current research interests are in Terahertz Communications, Nanonetworks, Internet of NanoThings, Internet of BioNanothings, 5G/6G Wireless Systems, Internet of Space Things/CUBESATs, and Wireless Sensor Networks in Challenged Environments.