• E-mail: aekti@utk.edu

Education

• PhD Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 2015
• MS Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 2009
• BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Mersin University, Mersin, Türkiye, 2006

Ali Riza Ekti (Senior Member, IEEE) is from Tarsus, Türkiye. He received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Texas A&M University. He worked as an Assistant Professor with the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Balikesir University and held the Group Leader positions for Speech and Natural Language Processing Lab. and Communication and Signal Processing Research Laboratory (HISAR) Lab, TÜBİTAK BİLGEM, where he was responsible for research and development activities in the wireless communications and signal processing.

In January 2022, he joined Grid Communications and Security Research Group at Electrification and Energy Infrastructures Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Knoxville, Tennessee, US, where he is currently a Senior R&D Staff Member. Starting in December 1, 2022, he also became a joint Associate Professor faculty at University Tennessee-Bredesen Center. His current research interests include statistical signal processing, smart grid anomaly detection and classification, wireless sensor networks, wireless propagation channel modeling, optimization, machine learning in 5G and beyond systems and smart grid.

• Spectrum sensing, prediction, and signal identification
• Channel modeling and channel estimation for Terahertz band communications
• Channel estimation and modeling with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces and non-terrestrial networks
• Air–to–Air and Air–to–Ground channel modeling for UAV communications
• Detection and Positioning of UAV systems
• Positioning for GPS–denied environments for swarm unmanned aerial and land vehicles
• Resource allocation for heterogeneous wireless networks
• Data Analytics for Arcing and Anomaly Detection
• V2X Communication System Analysis

Publications

To see a full list of publications, please visit Ekti's Google Scholar profile.