Sabit Ekin, Wireless, AI, Education

Leadership & recognition

Building programs that put new technology into the hands of students, faculty, and industry.

Leadership & innovation

Generative AI Literacy Initiative

Founding Director (2024–present). Texas A&M is part of OpenAI’s $50M NextGenAI consortium of 15 institutions. The initiative runs the Generative AI Consultancy Hub, the GAIRE research-for-education grants, and the GenAI Foundations Workshop series.

Texas Wireless

Director (2023–present). Research on wireless communications and sensing, in collaboration with partners including NYU (Prof. Theodore S. Rappaport).

Patents & startups

2 issued U.S. patents and 3 published applications. Co-founder of Waylolo (NSF I-Corps award) and Aura Prism; founder of GrantPanel.AI.

OKSat

Founding Director (2018–2022) of Oklahoma’s first CubeSat program, at Oklahoma State University.

Honors & recognition

  • U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award: one of 56 university faculty selected nationwide in 2022 (under 1% acceptance), and the only DOE Early Career awardee in the Texas A&M College of Engineering
  • Charlotte and Walter Buchanan Faculty Fellow, ETID, Texas A&M University
  • ETID Faculty Teaching, Research and Service Award, Texas A&M University
  • PSO/Albrecht Naeter Endowed Professor of ECE, Oklahoma State University
  • Jack H. Graham Endowed Fellow of Engineering, Oklahoma State University
  • Senior Member, IEEE
  • Best Paper Award, 25th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC)
  • Best Paper Award, International Telecommunications Conference (ITELCON)
  • President’s Cup, First Place Award, Oklahoma State University
  • Qualstar Hall of Fame Award (eight times), Qualcomm
  • Graduated No. 1 in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Eskisehir Osmangazi University

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