Berk Canberk
Dr. Berk Canberk is a Professor within the School of Computing, Engineering and The Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University-UK, where he leads interdisciplinary research and initiatives in AI-enabled Digital Twins, IoT Communication, and Smart Wireless Networks. He’s also an affiliated Professor within the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) and Adjunct Faculty within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University USA. He is also the Innovation Director of BTS Group, the biggest network automation and cloud computing company in Turkey. He is a distinguished recipient of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering’s Global Talent Endorsement. He is an IEEE Senior Member, and he acts as an active Associate Editor at several world-leading academic journals such as IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Elsevier Computer Networks Journal, Elsevier Communication Networks Journal, and IEEE Communications Letters. He’s actively involved in several conferences as TPC chair and Organizing Committee Member. In his research group named Broadband Communication and Network Automation Research Group (BCRG, www.bcrg.uk ), he leads the research activities in highly interdisciplinary fields in digital twins and IoT, actively supervising 6 PhD and 2 MSc students. So far, he has supervised 16 MSc students, and 6 PhD students who are now all tenure-track professors. In the last 5 years, he has published over 100 journal papers, 2 books, 7 book chapters, 3 approved US patents and 12 patents waiting for approval. Prof. Canberk has been a Post-Doctoral researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology USA between 2011-2013. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Turkey in 2011, his MSc in Telecommunications Engineering from the Chalmers University of Technology Sweden in 2005, and his BSc in Electrical Engineering from ITU in 2003. He was an Associate Professor at Department of Computer Engineering at ITU between 2016-2021, and full Professor between 2021-2022. He has been involved with several industrial research activities with leading technology companies all over the world, including research scholarship program funding with Google Deepmind, TUBITAK, BTS Group Turkey, Turkcell, Turkish Telekom, and Uniper Energy Germany.