Özgür Barış Akan is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and the Head of the Internet of Everything (IoE) Group, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, and the Director of the Centre for NeXt-Generation Communications (CXC), Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 for contributions to wireless sensor networks. Since the same year, he is also a fellow of the Vehicular Technology Society.