Serhat is a Senior Technical Staff member at Ofinno, and IEEE delegat, contributing to IEEE 802.11 standards. He brings over 20 years of experience in research on PHY/MAC layer design for emerging communication systems and has led projects funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Eropean Research Counsel, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye, and various other industry partners. He is co-inventor on more than 100 patent applications and has co-authored over 100 IEEE contributions.

Before joining Ofinno, Serhat was a tenured professor at Kadir Has University, Türkiye. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from Simon Fraser University, an M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ryerson University, and a B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University. Serhat is a Marie Curie Fellow and a recipient of the Governor General’s Gold Medal.