Salim Kahveci was born in Trabzon, TURKEY, on January 05, 1975. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical&Electronics Engineering from the Karadeniz Technical University, Tabzon, TURKEY, in 1996, 1999, and 2006, respectively. From 2010 to 2011, he has been a Postdoctoral Researcher, with the Signal Processing Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, USA. He is now an Assistant Prof. at Karadeniz Technical University. His field of interest research includes wireless communications, signal processing, information theory and channel codes.