Cenk Gursoy is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the College of Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University. He previously served as a faculty member at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 2004 to 2011. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University and a B.S. from Bogazici University, Turkey. His research spans wireless communications, information theory, signal processing, and networking. Key areas include 5G/6G technologies, millimeter-wave communications, UAV-assisted networks, energy efficiency, intelligent reflecting surfaces, and machine learning for networking. He has made significant contributions to finite blocklength communications, QoS provisioning, and secure wireless transmissions. The recent publications highlight a strong trend in integrating machine learning—particularly deep reinforcement learning—into wireless resource allocation, network slicing, UAV trajectory planning, and anomaly detection. His work increasingly bridges theoretical information-theoretic models with practical implementations in emerging wireless systems such as RIS-aided networks, NOMA, and edge computing. NSF CAREER Award, 2006 2020 IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award IEEE Green Communications & Computing Technical Committee Best Journal Paper Award EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking Best Paper Award IEEE PIMRC Best Paper Award Maude Hammond Fling Faculty Research Fellowship All-University Doctoral Prize (awarded twice to his students) Dr. Gursoy has advised over 20 Ph.D. and M.S. students, many of whom now hold positions at leading universities and tech companies. His research has been funded by multiple National Science Foundation grants as Principal or Co-Principal Investigator, focusing on fundamental limits of wireless systems, millimeter-wave networking, and green cloud platforms. He serves as an Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and as an Editor for several other IEEE Transactions journals. He leads the Wireless Communications & Networking Lab and the Smart Vision Systems Lab at Syracuse University, fostering interdisciplinary research in smart networks, IoT, and intelligent sensing systems.










