Committee – IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking

Honorary Co-Chair	Honorary Co-Chair

Archil Prangishvili Georgian Technical University, Georgia	Merab Khalvashi Batumi State University, Georgia
General Co-Chair	General Co-Chair

Alex Gelman Netovations, USA	Mehmet Ulema Manhattan College, USA
TPC Co-Chair	TPC Co-Chair

Tolga Duman Bilkent University, Turkey	Periklis Chatzimisios Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece
Tutorials Co-Chair	Tutorials Co-Chair

Abzetdin Adamov ADA University, Azerbaijan	Evgeny Khorov Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences (IITP RAS), Russia
Panel Sessions Co-Chair	Panel Sessions Co-Chair

Taner Arsan Kadir Has University, Turkey	Mahmoud Daneshmand Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Demo Sessions Co-Chair	Demo Sessions Co-Chair

Larysa Globa National Technical University of Ukraine	Lela Mirtskhulava Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University / San Diego State University Georgia
Publication Chair

Albena Mihovska Aarhus University, Denmark
Publicity Co-Chair	Publicity Co-Chair

Serhat Erkucuk Kadir Has University, Turkey	Andrey Lyakhov IITP RAS, Russia
Publicity Co-Chair	Publicity Co-Chair

Burak Kantarci* University of Ottawa, Canada	Carlos Becker Westphall* Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Communications Co-chair	Communications Co-chair

Alin Tomoiaga Manhattan College, USA	Dmitry Bankov IITP RAS, Russia
Finance Chair	Treasurer

Alex Gelman Netovations, USA	Bruce Worthman IEEE ComSoc, USA
Operations Co-Chair	Operations Co-Chair

Tamar Lominadze Georgian Technical University, Georgia	BGaioz Partskhaladze Batumi State University, Georgia
Local Arrangements Chair	IEEE ComSoc Staff

Merab Diasamidze Batumi State University, Georgia	Tina Gaerlan IEEE ComSoc, USA
Student Travel Grants Chair	Patrons Chair

Ahmed Refaey Manhattan College, USA	Lela Mirtskhulava Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University / San Diego State University Georgia

Steering Committee

Chair	Mehmet Ulema	Manhattan College, USA
Vice-Chair	Alex Gelman	Netovations, USA
Member	Larysa Globa	National Technical University of Ukraine
Member	Albena Mihovska	Aarhus University, Denmark
Member	Erdal Panayirci	Kadir Has University, Turkey
Member	Wolfgang Gerstacker	University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, GERMANY
Member	Octavian Fratu	University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

TPC members

İbrahim Altunbaş	Istanbul Technical University	Turkey
Dragana Bajić	University of Novi Sad	Serbia
Ertugrul Basar	Istanbul Technical University	Turkey
Tuncer Baykas	Istanbul Medipol University	Turkey
Elena Veronica Belmega	ETIS / ENSEA – UCP – CNRS	France
Ezio Biglieri	Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona	Spain
Raffaele Bruno	IIT-CNR	Italy
Laurent Clavier	Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom Lille	France
Tamer Dag	Kadir Has University	Turkey
Stanko Dimitrov	University of Waterloo	Canada
Virgil Dobrota	Technical University of Cluj-Napoca	Romania
Carlos Donato	IMDEA	Spain
Lutfiye Durak-Ata	Istanbul Technical University	Turkey
Ozgur Ercetin	Sabanci University	Turkey
Pierluigi Gallo	University of Palermo	Italy
Ivan Ganchev	University of Limerick	Ireland
Wolfgang Gerstacker	University of Erlangen-Nuernberg	Germany
Sinan Gezici	Bilkent University	Turkey
Yacine Ghamri-Doudane	University of la Rochelle	France
Ali Ghrayeb	Texas A&M University at Qatar	Qatar
Larysa Globa	National University of Technology of Ukraine “KPI” Kiev	Ukraine
Javier Gozalvez	Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche	Spain
Omer Gurewitz	Ben Gurion University	Israel
Mazen Hasna	Qatar University	Qatar
Ibrahim Hokelek	TUBITAK BILGEM	Turkey
Aissa Ikhlef	Durham University	United Kingdom
Georgi Iliev	Technical University of Sofia	Bulgaria
Vahid Jamali	Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nurnberg	Germany
Gunes Karabulut Kurt	Istanbul Technical University	Turkey
George Karetsos	Technology Education Institute of Thessaly	Greece
Andreas J. Kassler	Karlstad University	Sweden
Evgeny Khorov	IITP RAS	Russia
Adrian Kliks	Poznan University of Technology	Poland
Mehmet Koseoglu	Hacettepe University	Turkey
István Kovács	Nokia Bell Labs	Denmark
Gerhard Kramer	Technical University of Munich	Germany
Artem Krasilov	IITP RAS	Russia
Pavlos Lazaridis	University of Huddersfield	United Kingdom
Woongsup Lee	Gyeongsang National University	Korea
Mark Leeson	University of Warwick	United Kingdom
Albert Levi	Sabanci University	Turkey
Jing Liu	eBay, Inc.	USA
Andrey Lyakhov	IITP RAS	Russia
Behrouz Maham	Nazarbayev University	Kazakhstan
Ralf Müller	Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg	Germany
Marek Natkaniec	AGH University of Science and Technology	Poland
Adam Noel	University of Ottawa	Canada
Ertan Onur	Middle East Technical University	Turkey
Berna Özbek	Izmir Institute of Technology	Turkey
Ayca Ozcelikkale	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden
Milica Pejanovic-Djurisic	University of Montenegro	Montenegro
Vincenzo Piuri	Università degli Studi di Milano	Italy
Dimitrie Popescu	Old Dominion University	USA
Ali Pusane	Bogazici University	Turkey
Anke Schmeink	RWTH Aachen University	Germany
Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir	University of the West of Scotland	United Kingdom
Adão Silva	Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT)/University of Aveiro	Portugal
Ruslan Smelyanski	MSU	Russia
Giovanni Stea	University of Pisa	Italy
Szymon Szott	AGH University of Science and Technology	Poland
A. Korhan Tanc	Biruni University	Turkey
Ilenia Tinnirelo	University of Palermo	Italy
Homero Toral-Cruz	University of Quintana Roo	Mexico
Bartolomeu Uchôa-Filho	Federal University of Santa Catarina	Brazil
Murat Uysal	Ozyegin University	Turkey
Jozef Wozniak	Gdansk University of Technology	Poland
Ali Özgür Yılmaz	Middle East Technical University	Turkey
Melda Yuksel	TOBB University of Economics and Technology	Turkey
Nikola Zlatanov	Monash University	Australia