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My name is Gürkan Solmaz. I work as a Senior Researcher at NEC Labs Europe (Germany). Previously, I received my Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from the Department of EECS of University of Central Florida (UCF), USA and B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey.

I am interested in mobile computing, AI/machine learning, and edge computing for novel internet of things (IoT) applications to smart cities and smart mobility. The current list of publications can been seen in the publications page.


During my Ph.D., I was under supervision of Dr. Damla Turgut at Networking and Mobile Computing Lab. My research interests included wireless ad hoc and sensor networks and human mobility models. Detailed information can be found in the research page.

I am a member of IEEE, ACM, IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), and ACM SIGMOBILE.

Biography: Dr. Gürkan Solmaz is a Senior Researcher at NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany. His research interests include AI/ML, mobile computing, and cloud-edge systems for novel internet of things (IoT) applications to smart cities and smart mobility. He received his BS degree in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU) in Turkey and his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida (UCF) in the USA. At NEC, he has contributed to EU research projects in areas such as IoT, cloud/edge computing, localization, and automated driving. He co-authored more than 40 papers and had publications in top-tier journals and conferences such as IEEE TMC, ACM/IEEE IPSN, and ACM MobiSys. He was co-recipient of two best paper awards (Global IoT Summit’18 and IEEE SCC’19), IEEE IoT Journal 2018-2020 best paper runnerup award and the UCF Computer Science Ph.D. Student of the Year First Runner-up award. He received the Rhein-Neckar-Grant for young scientists and participated in the Heidelberg Laureate Forum. He regularly serves in the technical program and organizing committees of conferences. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, ComSoc, and SIGMOBILE, member-at-large in the ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (TPC), and a founding committee member of ACM Selects.