Dr. Ali Riza Ekti (Senior Member, IEEE) is from Tarsus, Türkiye. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Texas A&M University. He worked as an Assistant Professor with the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Balikesir University and held the Unit Manager positions for Speech and Natural Language Processing Lab and Communication and Signal Processing Research Laboratory (HISAR) Lab, TÜBİTAK BİLGEM, where he was responsible for research and development activities in the wireless communications and signal processing. In January 2022, he joined Grid Communications and Security Research Group at Electrification and Energy Infrastructures Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Knoxville, TN, USA, where he is currently a Senior R&D Staff Member. Starting December 1, 2022, he also became a joint Associate Professor faculty at University Tennessee–Bredesen Center. His current research interests include statistical signal processing, smart grid anomaly detection and classification, wireless sensor networks, wireless propagation channel modeling, optimization, machine learning in 5G and beyond systems and smart grid.