C. Emre Koksal
Can Emre Koksal received the
B.S. degree in electrical
engineering from the Middle
East Technical University, Ankara,
Turkey, in 1996, and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), Cambridge,
in 1998 and 2002, respectively, in Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science. During his studies, he was affiliated
with MIT Lincoln Lab.
and Laboratory for Information
and Decision Systems, working under the supervision of
Professor Robert
G. Gallager. He also worked at Sycamore Networks as an
intern engineer, prior to their IPO.
He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Networks and Mobile Systems
Group in the Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT,
until 2003 and a Senior Researcher jointly in the Laboratory for Computer
Communications and the Laboratory
for
Information
Theory at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland,
until 2006. Since then, he has been with the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department, Ohio
State University, Columbus,
Ohio, currently as a Professor. His general areas
of interest are wireless communication, cybersecurity,
communication networks, information theory, stochastic
processes, and financial economics.
Emre is also the Founder and CEO of DAtAnchor, Inc.
DAtAnchor is an easy to use, unique data security
solution, which provides seamless strong encryption,
automated data governance and dynamic access control.
Revocation capabilities enable organizations to protect their
sensitive data even when it is taken outside. DAtAnchor is a
universal solution, protecting all data types, along with any
native application used to consume it. It is very easy to set
up and DAtAnchor integrates with most of the existing cloud
storage and security solutions.
He is the recipient of the National
Science
Foundation CAREER
Award (2011), the OSU
College
of
Engineering
Lumley Research Award (2011), OSU
College of Engineering Innovators Award (2016), and the
co-recipient of an HP
Labs
- Innovation Research Award in 2011. He was a finalist
of the Bell Labs
Prize in 2014. He co-authored the best paper award
at WiOpt 2018 and best
student
paper candidate in MOBICOM 2005. He
has co-developed a Mobile App that won the third prize in IEEE VNC
2016. A wireless
energy harvesting technology he invented is being
commercialized by Nikola Labs. He was an Associate Editor for
IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
Wireless Communications, and Elsevier
Computer Networks.