Murat Yuksel is a professor at the UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He earned his doctoral degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Yuksel has worked as a software engineer at Sunnyvale, California and as a visiting researcher at AT&T Labs and Los Alamos National Lab. His research interests are in networked, wireless, and computer systems with a recent focus on optical wireless, wireless systems, network economics, network architectures, and network management. He is a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery.