Dr. Ömer İleri, an electrical and electronics engineer, academic, administrator, and politician. He has conducted research in wireless communication technologies, spectrum economics, and game theory. He serves as Deputy Chairman of the AK Party responsible for Information and Communication Technologies. He was elected as a Member of Parliament for Ankara in the 28th Term of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye in the 2023 general elections.

Dr. Ömer İleri completed his undergraduate education in 2001 at Boğaziçi University in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering department. He earned his Master’s (2003) and Doctorate (2007) degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick in the United States. In 2011, he completed his Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Istanbul Bilgi University.

From 2007 to 2009, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and taught courses at Middle East Technical University and Gebze Institute of Technology. He served as a doctoral faculty member at Sabancı University and Turkish Air Force University. His academic work has focused on wireless communication technologies, microeconomic game theory, and spectrum economics, and he has authored numerous international publications in these fields.

• From 2009 to 2011, Dr. Ömer İleri worked at TÜBİTAK as a Scientific Program Specialist and later as a Senior Researcher.
• From 2011 to 2014, he worked as Director of R&D Operations at Avea.
• From 2014 to 2015, he served as Director of Engineering at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation.
• From 2015 to 2017, he was Product Director at Mimosa Networks.
• From 2017 to 2020, he worked at Amazon’s Luxembourg office as Senior Product Director and Senior Program Director.
• In September 2020, Dr. İleri returned to Türkiye and served as Director of R&D and Graduate Policies at Sabancı University; he was also a faculty member in the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences.

• On 24 March 2021, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the AK Party responsible for Information and Communication Technologies at the 7th Ordinary Congress of the AK Party. He was re-elected to this position at the 8th Ordinary Congress of the AK Party.
• In the 2023 general elections in Türkiye, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Ankara in the 28th Term of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye.

• 1997 – İş Bankası Golden Youth Award (awarded to students who ranked among the top 100 in the ÖYS examination)
• 2009 – IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Award (awarded for the best paper published in an IEEE journal during the year)

Dr. İleri has served on the editorial boards of numerous scientific journals and conferences. His academic publications are listed below.

• İleri, Ö. (2002). Dynamic Spectrum Access Models: Towards an Engineering Perspective in the Spectrum Debate. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.

• Hultell, J., İleri, Ö., Zander, J. (2011). “Selfish Users in Energy Constrained ALOHA Systems with Power Capture”. Wireless Networks.
• Akyüz, G. A., İleri, Ö. (2025). “A Comparative Analysis of Blockchain–Smart Contracts–ERP Integration Strategies for Supply Network Collaboration”. IEEE Access.
• İleri, Ö., Mau, S.-C., Mandayam, N. B. (2005). “Pricing for Enabling Forwarding in Self-Configuring Ad Hoc Networks”. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 23(1), 151–162.
• İleri, Ö., Mandayam, N. B. (2008). “Dynamic Spectrum Access Models: Toward an Engineering Perspective in the Spectrum Debate”. IEEE Communications Magazine.

• İleri, O., Samardzija, D., Sizer, T., Mandayam, N. B. (2005). “Demand Responsive Pricing and Competitive Spectrum Allocation via a Spectrum Server”. IEEE International Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access.
• İleri, O., Mandayam, N. B. (2004). “Pricing for Enabling Forwarding in Self-Configuring Ad Hoc Networks”. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).
• Zhang, D., İleri, O., Mandayam, N. B. (2008). “Bandwidth Exchange as an Incentive for Relaying”. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems.
• İleri, O., Samardzija, D., Mandayam, N. B. (2007). “Dynamic Property Rights Spectrum Access: Flexible Ownership Based Spectrum Management”. IEEE International Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access.
• Çelebi, Ö. F., Zeydan, E., Kurt, Ö. F., Dedeoğlu, Ö., İleri, Ö., Sungur, B. A. et al. (2013). “On Use of Big Data for Enhancing Network Coverage Analysis”. International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT).
• Buyruk, H., Keskin, A. K., Şendil, Ş., Çelebi, H., Partal, H. P., İleri, Ö., Zeydan, E. et al. (2013). “RF Fingerprinting Based GSM Indoor Localization”. Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU).
• Tuzunkan, F. A., Gungor, V. C., Zeydan, E., İleri, O., Ergüt, S. (2014). “Seamless Mobile Data Offloading in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Based on IEEE 802.21 and User Experience”. IEEE WCNC Workshops.
• Üstünel, E., Hökelek, İ., İleri, O. (2012). “A Cross-Layer Goodput Enhancement Considering CRC Coding and ARQ Dynamics”. IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC).
• İleri, Ö., Hökelek, İ., Arslan, H., Üstünel, E. (2011). “Improving Data Capacity in Cellular Networks Through Utilizing Partially Overlapping Channels”. Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU).
• Ozyagci, A., İleri, O., Zander, J. (2010). “Distributed Multichannel Random Access Networks with Selfish Users”. Cognitive Radio Conference.
• Üstünel, E., Hökelek, İ., İleri, Ö., Arslan, H. (2011). “Joint Optimum Message Length and Generator Polynomial Selection in Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) Coding”. Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU).
• Tercero, M., Sánchez, P. G., İleri, O., Zander, J. (2010). “Distributed Spectrum Access with Energy Constraint for Heterogeneous Channels”. Cognitive Radio Conference.
• İleri, O., Zander, J. (2009). “Broker Coordination in Demand Responsive Dynamic Spectrum Access Settings”. IEEE International Conference on Communications.
• Ilyas, M., Bayat, O., İleri, O. (2015). “Indoor Location Estimation by Using MLE Based Algorithm on Smallcell Networks”. Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU).
• Zeydan, E., Benbadis, F., Rebecchi, F., Azzarelli, D., Boite, J., Bruno, R., Conan, V., İleri, O. et al. (2014). “FP7 MOTO Intermediate Results and Standardization Strategy”. European Conference on Networks and Communications (EUCNC).
• Şeker, S. S., Morgül, A., İleri, O. (2003). “A Discrete Approach for Modelling the EM Wave Attenuation in Tunnels”. Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications.
• Demir, Ö. F. E. İ., İleri, Ö. (2022). “The Core of a Smart Grid: Internet of Energy and Machine Learning”. IEEE Global Energy Conference.

• İleri, O., Ergüt, S. (2014). “Alarm Sequence Rule Mining Extended with a Time Confidence Parameter”.
• Arslan, P. (2013). “Big Data as a Source for Designing Services”. IASDR – International Association of Societies of Design Research.
• İleri, O., Mau, S., Mandayam, N. B. (2004). “Pricing for Enabling Forwarding in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks”. Rutgers University.

Dr. Ömer İleri has written numerous articles on digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and technology policy. His published works in this area include:

• İleri, Ö. (November 2023). “Artificial Intelligence: Shaping the World of the Future”. Kriter Dergisi.
• İleri, Ö. (August 2023). “An Innovation in Corporate Information Systems: Political Process Management Systems”. Kriter Dergisi.
• İleri, Ö. (March 2023). “The Century of the Digital and Fair Technology”. Kriter Dergisi.
• İleri, Ö. (December 2022). “A New Political Understanding in Türkiye: The Politics of the Digital”. Kriter Dergisi.