Ali Pusane received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1999, and 2002, respectively. He received an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2004, another M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics in 2006, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2008 from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN. He joined the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bogazici University in 2009.

In addition to teaching and research activities, Ali Emre Pusane serves as an academic consultant for leading national and international R&D companies and governmental organizations. His expertise spans waveform design, physical layer prototyping, machine learning-aided signal analysis, signal localization, radar signal processing, and low-complexity embedded designs for FEC encoders/decoders. He leads the Bogazici University Signal Analysis Research Group (BUSARG), tackling diverse challenges in communication signal analysis.

A senior member of the IEEE, Ali has contributed as a reviewer for several IEEE journals and conferences and previously served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications.

Beyond his professional work, Ali Pusane has an unnecessary yet remarkable history with Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite, and Brawl Stars. These days, he is a dedicated COD: Mobile player with extensive Battle Royale experience. He’s also addicted to solving Su Doku and Killer Su Doku puzzles—which bear an uncanny resemblance to graph-based decoding of linear block codes over an erasure channel. An avid runner, he has completed the Istanbul Marathon (2017), Mersin and Stockholm Marathons (2018), and most recently, the Valencia Marathon (2024).

Education

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, May 2008
• MSc in Applied Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, May 2006
• MSc in Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, May 2004
• MSc in Electronics and Communications Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2002
• BSc in Electronics and Communications Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 1999