Serhat is a Senior Technical Staff at Ofinno contributing to IEEE 802.11 standards as a delegate. He has more than 20 years of experience in conducting research on PHY/MAC layer design of emerging communication systems. He has led research projects funded by research institutions including Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), European Research Council (ERC), The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) and various industrial companies. He has been a co-inventor of more than one hundred patent applications, and has co-authored more than one hundred IEEE contributions.

Prior to joining Ofinno, he has worked as a full-time tenured professor at Kadir Has University, Türkiye. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science from Simon Fraser University, Canada. He has earned his M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ryerson University, Canada and his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Türkiye. He is a Marie Curie Fellow and a recipient of Governor General’s Gold Medal.