Gürkan Solmaz (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Central Florida. He is currently a Senior Researcher with the NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany, where he applies to skills toward mobile computing, AI/ML, and cloud-edge systems for IoT applications in smart cities and smart mobility. His research interests include wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks and human mobility models. He is a member of the ACM Future of Computing Academy.