Dr. Gündüz is the recipient of the 2017 Early Achievement Award of the IEEE Communication Society - Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC), Starting (2015), Consolidator (2022) and Proof-of-Concept (2023) grants of the European Research Council (ERC), the 2014 IEEE Communication Society Best Young Researcher Award for the Europe, Middle East and Africa Region, and the 2008 Alexander Hessel Award awarded by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering for the best Ph.D. dissertation. He is a co-author of the paper that received the IEEE Communications Society - Young Author Best Paper Award in 2022, as well as the papers that received the Best Paper Awards at the 2016 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), and 2019 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), and the Best Student Paper Award at the 2018 IEEE WCNC and 2007 International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT).

His research interests lie in the areas of communication theory, information theory, machine learning and privacy.