Rate My Professor Hazer Inaltekin

Hazer Inaltekin serves as Senior Lecturer in Wireless Engineering within the School of Engineering at Macquarie University. He holds a B.S. degree with High Honors in electrical and electronics engineering from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, and an M.S./Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, USA. Prior to his current role, Dr. Inaltekin occupied various researcher and faculty positions in Australia, Europe, and the United States. He is actively involved with the Future Communications Research Centre and the Advanced Drone Systems Research Centre, and serves as unit convenor for courses including ENGG8091 – Engineering Project Implementation and Electrical and Electronic Engineering Research Thesis A.

Dr. Inaltekin's research focuses on fog computing, IoT technology, wireless communications, wireless networks, social networks, game theory, and information theory. He has secured a highly competitive career integration grant from the European Research Council and managed approximately $1,000,000 in funding as lead Chief Investigator on key projects such as "Enabling wide area mm-wave mobile broadband networks" (2023–2025), "Scaling Up Satellite Communications for the Internet of Things" (2021–2024), "Life at the Edge: Wireless Communications with Data Processing Nodes" (2020–2022), and "Advanced Satellite Communications for High Rate and Dynamic Service Delivery" (2020). With over 70 research papers published, his work has received more than 1,500 citations on Google Scholar. Notable recent publications include "Base station beam scheduling for mmWave networks with full-frequency reuse" (2025, IEEE Access), "NeuroDetect: deep learning-based signal detection in phase-modulated systems with low-resolution quantization" (2025, Sensors), "On the channel capacity of communications with low-resolution ADCs over fading channels" (2025, IEEE Communications Letters), "Mitigation of radiation loss in mmWave Rotman Lens beamformers" (2025), and "Optimum path planning for large scale distributed IoT data collection using a rechargeable UAV" (2025, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society). In total, he has produced 110 research outputs, comprising 61 conference proceedings, 43 articles, 2 chapters, and 2 review articles.