Professor Inan is the President of Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey.
During 1982-2009, he served at Stanford University as a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Space, Telecommunications, and Radioscience Laboratory. He is also a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the Institute of Electrıcal and Electronics Engineering, and the American Physical Society; and he has served as Vice President of the International Union of Radio Science, and was elected as a Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences. In addition, he has authored more than 366 scientific publications with more than 10,000 citations, and served as the Principal Advisor for 60 PhD students since 1990.
He is the recipient of the Stanford University Allan V. Cox Medal for Faculty Excellence, the Stanford University Tau Beta Pi Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, several Group Achievement Awards from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the European Space Agency; the Antarctic Service Medal of the U.S., with an Antarctic Mountain named “Inan Peak” in his honor, the Appleton Prize from URSI and the Royal Society, and the Special Science Award from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.
Professor Inan received his Bachelor and Master in Electrical Engineering from Middle East Technical University (Ankara) and a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University (California).