Mustafa Ergen
Founder of Ambeent Inc.
Mustafa Ergen
Founder of Ambeent Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and CEO
2016 - Current
Ambeent is an innovator in network intelligence with a mission to enhance digital end user experiences and help organizations of all sizes meet their connectivity objectives. Check it out http://www.ambeent.ai Recent News - Won the Wireless Broadband Alliance Best In-Home Wi-Fi Network Award consecutively 2023 (with Vodafone) and 2022 (with Millenicom), - According to PatentEffect, in USPTO filings of 2021, Ambeent Inc. is 3rd in applications and 6th in awardees at TOP 20 listings of Türkiye. - Ambeent was selected one of the 50 best San Francisco based Developer Platform companies of 2021 by BestStartup.us. - The EU highlighted Ambeent's Wi-Fi technology as the project that could help contact tracing during epidemics. - EIC Grantee: Ambeent is awarded the highly competitive European Union grant under the prestigious EIC Accelerator program (aka SME Instrument, Phase 2). - Wi-Fi NOW 2019 Awards: Ambeent is in TOP 3 for Best Startup Award. - Among over 5,000 applicants from 128 different countries, Ambeent has been selected as one of Hellow Tomorrow’s Deep Tech Pioneers. - Telecom Council nominates Ambeent for "The Graham Bell Award for Best Communication Solutions" at 2019 SPIFFY. - Ambeent received "Seal of Excellence” Certificate from European Commission. - Ambeent Wi-Fi is selected TOP FIVE in "Startup of the Year” award of Mobile World Congress. Two year in a row: MWC Shanghai 2019, MWC Americas 2018. - Ambeent is selected TOP 100 Startup in Europe by Red Herring in 2019.
Prof. Dr.
2017
* Listed in Stanford's World's Top %2 Scientist Ranking * Founding Member and ex-Director of AI Center * Board Member of Entrepreneurship Center: GİNOVA * Founding Member, Cyber Security Center * Lecturer, Introduction to Electrical Engineering * Lecturer, Introduction to Mobile Communications: 5G and Beyond, * Lecturer, Data Networks * Lecturer, Random Signals and Noise * Lecturer, Digital Communications * Lecturer, Probability and Statistics * Lecturer, Analog Communications * Lecturer, Signal and Systems * Member of Advisor Council in Electrical Engineering Departments of Sabanci University, Özyeğin University and Kadir Has University
Board Member / President
2019
Seed-funded battery component company for fast charging. https://next-ion.energy
Limited Partner
2021
Board Member
2015
Advisor
2016
Network as a Service Startup
Chief Innovation Officer (acting)
2022 - 2022
Establishing a CIO office to monetize innovation and technology transfer
President, Council of Board of Trustees for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
2022 - 2022
Coordinating a sub-group of BoT for entrepreneurship and innovation
Executive Advisor to President / Prof. Dr. (visiting)
2021 - 2022
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Commercialization Co-founder of J-START Deep Tech Venture
Adjunct Associate Professor
2011 - 2021
*Director and Founder of Koc University Incubation Center http://bit.ly/1hCqfVN *Lecturer on entrepreneurship and innovation http://courses.ku.edu.tr/engr401 *Lecturer on mobile broadband: 4G and beyond http://courses.ku.edu.tr/elec450 *Organizer, TEDxKocUniversity tedx.ku.edu.tr http://livecast.com.tr/kocuniversity/event/295/tedx-kocuniversity/
Board Member
2013 - 2020
5G PPP - Member for Türk Telekom http://5g-ppp.eu Networld2020 - Board Member for Türk Telekom http://networld2020.org ETSI NFV - Participant for Türk Telekom http://www.etsi.org Celtic Plus - Core Group Member for Türk Telekom https://www.celticplus.eu
Board Member
2019 - 2020
Güneş Sigorta [now Türkiye Sigorta] is the leading listed insurance company since 1957. https://www.gunessigorta.com.tr
Education
PhD
2000 - 2004
MA
2002 - 2004
MS
2000 - 2002
Program
2002 - 2003
Bachelor’s Degree
1995 - 2000