Professor B.S. Yarman was born on July 6, 1952 in Istanbul, Turkey. He graduated from Istanbul Isik High School (1969) which was founded in Greece (1885). Received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Technical University of Istanbul (Feb. 1974), M.Sc. degree from Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, USA (1978), Ph.D. degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA (1982).
He had been Member of Technical Staff at David Sarnoff Research Center where he was in charge of designing various satellite transponders for various commercial and military agencies in the US such as Air Force, Hughes Aircraft’s, Bell Labs, Comsat, Intelsat, American Satcom of RCA etc. He returned to Turkey in 1984 and served as Assistant, Associate and full Professor at Anatolia University-Eskişehir, Middle East Technical University-Ankara, Technical University of Istanbul, and Istanbul University, Istanbul. He had been the chairperson of Department of Electronics Engineering, Defense Technologies and Director of School of Technical Sciences of Istanbul University over the years 1990-1996. He was one of the founders of I-ERDEC Maryland USA (1983), STFA SAVRONIK; a Defense Electronics company in Turkey (1986) and ARES Security Systems Inc. (1990). He had been a visiting professor at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany over the years 1987-1994. He had been a technical consultant to Turkish General Staff, Turkish Air Force and Turkish Military Industries over the years 1984-1987. He had been the Chief Technical Adviser to Turkish Prime Ministry Office and Director of Electronic and Technical Intelligent Agency of Turkey (1993-1999).
He was the Founding President of Isik University of Feyziye School Foundation (1996-2004). He was also Professor of Tokyo Institute of technology, Tokyo, Japan (2006-2008). Currently, he is the Professor of Istanbul University where he directs the Research Funds, Chairman of the Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Isik University.
Dr. Yarman published two major books (Design of Ultra wideband Power Transfer Networks 2010, Wiley, Design of Ultra Wideband Antenna Matching Networks 2008, Springer), more than 300 scientific and technical papers in the field of Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Microwave Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mathematics and Management.
He holds four US patents assigned to US Air Force. He has served in various technical and scientific committees since 1980 in the USA, and Turkey. He received the Young Turkish Scientist Award in 1986, the Technology Award in 1987 of National Research and Technology Counsel of Turkey. He received the Research Fellowship award of Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany, in 1987. He became the Member of New York Academy of Science in 1994.
He was named as the “Man of the year in Science and Technology” in 1998 of Cambridge Biography Center, UK and elevated to IEEE Fellow for his contribution to “Computer Aided design of Broadband Amplifiers”.
Prof. Siddik Yarman is married with Sema Yarman (Prof. Dr. MD, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Div. of Endocrinology, Medical School of Istanbul University) with one son Dr. Can Evren Yarman (Researcher at Schlumberger, Houston, Texas).
