Kazim Ergun (S’20) received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronics engineering as a valedictorian
from Middle East Technical University, Turkey, in 2017. He is currently working toward the
Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electrical andComputer Engineering, University of California San Diego, California, USA.
He is a member of the System Energy Efficiency Laboratory where he works on optimization and
control for the Internet of Things, with the focus on reliability and energy efficiency.
His research interests include a wide variety of topics covering optimization and control
for efficient IoT networks, wireless communications, and machine learning.