Mustafa Ergen received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU) and was the METU Valedictorian in 2000. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 2002 and 2004, completed the MOT program of HAAS Business School in 2003, and the M.A. degree in International and Area Studies in 2004 from the University of California, Berkeley.

He co-founded a startup based on WiMAX Mobile in 2005 and was a member of the National Semiconductor Labs in summer 2002, 2003 and 2004 and became National Semiconductor Post Doctoral Fellow in 2004. He was the co-founding director of the Distributed Sensing Lab after 2004 at University of California Berkeley.

Dr. Ergen has been conducting research in wireless communication networks with an emphasis on WiMAX/WLAN and OFDM/OFDMA systems and is the author of many works in the field, including the book Multi-Carrier Digital Communications: Theory and Applications of OFDM (with A. R. S. Bahai and B. R. Saltzberg from Springer, 2004). Dr. Ergen also specializes in technology management and entrepreneurship.

He is in the board of trustees of TOBB University of Economics and Technology and was awarded eight times Bulent Kerim Altay Award by department of electrical engineering in METU and received Best Student Paper Award in IEEE ISCC 2003 and has an invited paper in IEEE GLOBECOM 2004.

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