Aylin Yener

Affiliation:

Professor of Electrical Engineering
Penn State University
121 Electrical Engineering East, University Park, PA 16802

Home Page:

http://labs.ee.psu.edu/faculty/yener

Biography:

Aylin Yener (S’91–M’00) received two B.Sc. degrees, with honors, in electrical and electronics engineering, and in physics, from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1991, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, in 1994 and 2000, respectively. During her Ph.D. studies, she was with the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University. From September 2000 to December 2001, she was a P.C. Rossin Assistant Professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Lehigh University, PA. In January 2002, she joined the faculty of The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, where she was an Assistant Professor, then Associate Professor, and is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering. During the academic year 2008-2009, she was a Visiting Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, CA. Her research interests are in information theory, communication theory and network science, with emphasis on fundamental limits of wireless ad hoc networks and information theoretic security.

Dr. Yener received the NSF CAREER award in 2003 and is a member of the team that received the DARPA Information Theory for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (ITMANET) Young Investigator Team Award in 2006. Her awards in 2010 include the Penn State Engineering Alumni Society (PSEAS) Outstanding Research Award and the Best Paper award from the Communication Theory Symposium in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).

Dr. Yener’s service to IEEE includes serving as Technical Program Chair in symposia and tracks in various IEEE conferences including ICC (in 2008 and 2009). She currently serves as an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. She also currently serves on various committees of the IEEE Communication Society.

Dr. Yener’s service to the IEEE Information Theory Society includes chairing the Student Committee whose goal is to provide career development opportunities for the next generation information theorists. She is the co-founder of the Annual School of Information Theory in North America. She served as the general Co-Chair of the First Annual School of Information Theory held at Penn State University, University Park, in June 2008, the Second Annual School of Information Theory held at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, in August 2009, and the Third Annual School of Information Theory held at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in August 2010.

Research Interests:

• Communication Networks
• Communications
• Complexity and Cryptography
• Shannon Theory

Participation & Positions:

School Committee (General Chair, 01/01/10 until present)
School of IT Organizing Committee (General Chair, 2009)
Student Committee (Chair, 09/01/07 until 09/01/11)