Tolga M. Duman is a Professor of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Bilkent University in Turkey. He received a B.S. degree from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1993, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, in 1995 and 1998, respectively, all in electrical engineering. Before joining Bilkent University in September 2012, he was a full professor with the School of ECEE at Arizona State University. Dr. Duman’s current research interests are in systems, with a particular focus on communications and signal processing, including wireless and mobile communications, channel coding/modulation, coding for wireless communications, information theory, and data storage systems, as well as machine learning for communications and semantic communications/signal processing.

Dr. Duman is a Fellow of the IEEE, a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, and a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant. He served on the editorial boards of various journals, including IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SURVEYS AND TUTORIALS. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Physical Communication journal and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS.

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T. M. Duman, Fundamentals of Digital Communication Systems, Cambridge University Press, 2025.