Aylin Yener holds the Roy and Lois Chope Chair in engineering at Ohio State University,[1] and Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.

[4] Yener received her dual B.Sc degrees (1991) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Physics from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.

[8] In 2020, Yener accepted a faculty position at Ohio State University becoming the Electrical Engineering Department's first chaired female professor.

The applications of these fields include but not limited to information theoretic physical layer security, energy harvesting communication networks, and caching systems.

[9] She runs the INSPIRE Lab (Information and Networked Systems Powered by Innovation and Research in Engineering) at Ohio State University.