Ibrahim Yildirim (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, in 2017 and 2019, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from Koç University, Turkey. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Broadband Communications Research Lab at McGill University, Canada. He served as a Research and Teaching Assistant at Istanbul Technical University from 2018 to 2024. He received the Exemplary Reviewer Award of the IEEE Transactions on Communications in 2021 and is a co-recipient of the Best Paper Award from the IEEE LATINCOM 2020. Additionally, he was awarded the Best Master Thesis Award by the IEEE Communications Society Turkey Section in 2021 and the Best Graduation Project Award by the Electrical Engineers Branch of Turkey in 2017. 

His current research interests include MIMO systems and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces. He has been serving as a Reviewer for IEEE Journal On Selected Areas In Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and IEEE Communications Letters.