M. Oğuz Sunay is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Özyeğin University, Istanbul, Turkey since 2009. He was a Research Engineer at Nokia Research Center, USA between 1996-1998, a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, USA between 1998-2001 and a faculty member at Koç University, Turkey between 2001-2009. He received his B.Sc. degree from METU, Turkey and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Queen's University, Canada. Dr. Sunay's current research interests include cross-layer, spectrally efficient design of wireless systems for multimedia services, adaptive resource allocation techniques, diversity techniques, relay and peer-to-peer networks. He has authored numerous articles in these areas at refereed journals and international conferences and has over 25 US and European patents. He has served and contributed in various telecommunications standards bodies on cdma2000, 1xEV-DO and 1xEV-DV. Dr Sunay was a guest co-editor for the January 2000 issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine, titled "Telecommunications at the Start of the New Millennium" and served as the co-chair of the Wireless Communications Symposium at the IEEE ICC 2006 conference held in Istanbul. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters in 2000-2005 and an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications in 2004-2006. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Wireless Communication Systems and Networks, Resource Allocation, Cross-Layer Design, Multimedia Communications