Erdal Arıkan

Erdal Arıkan
Erdal Arıkan
Born	1958 (age 66–67)
Nationality	Turkish
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology; Massachusetts Institute of Tech.;
Known for	Polar codes
Awards	IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award; Information Theory Society Paper; IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal; Claude E. Shannon Award;
	Scientific career
Fields	Information theory and coding; Communication systems;
Institutions	Bilkent University; University of Illinois;
Thesis	Sequential decoding for multiple access channels (1986)
Doctoral advisor	Robert G. Gallager

Erdal Arıkan (born 1958) is a Turkish professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He is known for his invention of polar codes, which is a key component of 5G technologies.