Elza Erkip an Institute Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at New York University Tandon School of Engineering. She received the B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. Her research interests are in information theory, communication theory, and wireless communications.
Dr. Erkip is a member of the Science Academy of Turkey, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. She received the NSF CAREER award in 2001, the IEEE Communications Society WICE Outstanding Achievement Award in 2016, the IEEE Communications Society Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC) Technical Achievement Award in 2018, and the IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award in 2021. She was the Padovani Lecturer of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2022. Her paper awards include the IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Paper Prize in 2004, the IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication in 2013 and the IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award in 2019. She was a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society 2012-2020, where she was the President in 2018. She was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Information Theory Society from 2013 to 2014. She is currently the Vice Chair of IEEE Communications Society Communication Theory Technical Committee.
Dr. Erkip has had many editorial and conference organization responsibilities. Some recent ones include IEEE Communication Theory Workshop Technical Chair in 2024; IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory Guest Editor in 2021, 2022 (lead) and 2023; IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Guest Editor in 2023; IEEE International Conference on Communications, Communications Theory Symposium Technical Co-Chair in 2021; IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Technical Co-Chair in 2017; and IEEE International Symposium of Information Theory General Co-Chair in 2013.