Can Emre Koksal is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University. He is also the Founder and CEO of Anchor. 

received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1996, and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 1998 and 2002, respectively, in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. During his studies, he was affiliated with MIT Lincoln Lab. and Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, working under the supervision of Professor Robert G. Gallager. He also worked at Sycamore Networks as an engineer, prior to their IPO.

He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Networks and Mobile Systems Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, until 2003 and a Senior Researcher jointly in the Laboratory for Computer Communications and the Laboratory for Information Theory at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, until 2006. Since then, he has been with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, currently as a Professor. His areas of expertise include data science, wireless communication, information security, communication networks, and information theory. He holds 8 US and International Patents, licensed and are being commercialized by several companies. He has testified to the Congress on various aspects of cybersecurity.

He is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2011), Columbus Business First – Inventor of the Year Award (2020), the co-recipient of an HP Labs - Innovation Research Award (2011), a finalist of the Bell Labs Prize in 2014, the OSU College of Engineering Lumley Research Award (2011 and 2017), and the OSU College of Engineering Innovators Award (2016 and 2020). He co-authored the best paper award at WiOpt 2018 and best student paper candidate in MOBICOM 2005. He has co-developed a Mobile App that won the third prize in IEEE VNC 2016. A wireless energy harvesting technology he invented is being commercialized by Nikola Labs. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and Elsevier Computer Networks.