Erdal Arıkan (born 1958) is a Turkish professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
He started graduate studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981 where he was advised by Robert G. Gallager and obtained his PhD in 1986.
[2] Arıkan briefly served as a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
[5] He presented a three-session lecture on the polar codes at Simons Institute's Information Theory Boot Camp at the University of California, Berkeley.
The Chinese telecommunications company Huawei recognized his "outstanding contribution to the development of communications technology in 2018.