Can Emre Koksal received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in 1996, and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from MIT in 1998 and 2002, respectively, in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT until 2004, and a Senior Researcher at EPFL until 2006. Since then, he has been with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Ohio State University, currently as an Associate Professor. His general areas of interest are wireless communication, communication networks, information theory, stochastic processes, and financial economics. 

He is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2011, the OSU College of Engineering Lumley Research Award in 2011, and the co-recipient of an HP Labs - Innovation Research Award in 2011. The paper he co-authored was a best student paper candidate in MOBICOM 2005. Currently, he is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and Elsevier Computer Networks.