Tolga M. Duman is a Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Bilkent University and he is on leave from the School of ECEE at Arizona State University. Dr. Duman's current research interests are in systems, with particular focus on communication and signal processing, including wireless and mobile communications, coding/modulation, coding for wireless communications, data storage systems and underwater acoustic communications.

Dr. Duman is a Fellow of IEEE, a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and IEEE Third Millennium medal. His publications include a book on MIMO Communications (by Wiley in 2007), and close to two hundred journal and conference papers. He served as an editor for IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications (2003-08), IEEE Trans. on Communications (2007-2012) and IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (2002-07). He is currently the coding and communication theory area editor for IEEE Trans. on Communications (2011-present) and an editor for Elsevier Physical Communications Journal (2010-present).