Hayrettin Koymen

Hayrettin Köymen (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, in 1973 and 1976, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Birmingham University, U.K., in 1979, all in electrical engineering. He worked as a Faculty Member with the Department of Marine Sciences, METU, Mersin, and the Department of Electrical Engineering, METU, Ankara, from 1979 to 1990. In 1990, he joined the faculty of Bilkent University, where he is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. His research activities include underwater and airborne acoustic and ultrasonic transducer design, underwater acoustics, underwater and airborne acoustic systems, acoustic microscopy, ultrasonic NDT, biomedical instrumentation, mobile communications, and spectrum management. Prof. Koymen is a fellow of the IET.