Reyat YILMAZ received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey, in 1986 and 1988, respectively. Then, he received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Sussex University, United Kingdom, in 1994. He was the Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Major of Telecommunication, from 2003 to 2006. Since 2023, he has been working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Dokuz Eylul University. He is the author of more than 40 publications (i.e., journal articles and conference papers). He has been involved in 20 R&D projects. His research interests include communication engineering, signal processing, and machine learning.