MRC President Mehmet Önder YETİŞ

He was born in Göle in 1947. He graduated from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) as an Electronics Engineer and became assistant lecturer in ITU in 1970. He worked as Maintenance Engineer in Eskişehir PTT Head Directorate and served in the Air Force College as Teacher of Electronics Between the years 1972-1974.
He worked as an Expert Researcher in the area of Digital Communications Systems in The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) between the years 1974-1985. During this period he realized the research and design of a 2 Mbit/s Digital Multiplexing System as an end product of a contract awarded by the PTT Research Laboratory.

In order to transfer his accumulated knowledge and the created prototype into production, he has been invited and transferred to TELETAŞ as project manager. Between the years of 1985 and 1993 he served as Project Manager, Research Manager of Transmission Systems and Director of Research and Development. He directed Research and Development projects related to various types of Transmission Systems. In 1989 he created the first ASICs of Turkey which are used in the New Generation Digital Multiplexing Systems to be included in the portfolio of TELETAŞ and ALCATEL. Furthermore he functioned as Director of RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT in developing Multiplexing Equipment, Fiber Optic Line Equipment, Radio Relay Systems and LEVENT, the digital exchange which were all manufactured for the utilization of Türk Telekom and as product of export.

In 1993 he was assigned as the Chair of Electronic Department of The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). In 1995 he founded the National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE) affiliated to TÜBİTAK – Marmara Research Center. Later, UEKAE became a center of attraction in the area of Information Security.

In October 1999 he re-organized TÜBİTAK - UEKAE so that the Institute started to conduct research and development in the area of Advanced Electronics Technologies and constituted ILTAREN, an Institute affiliated to UEKAE through a protocol which was signed between the Presidency of TÜBİTAK and Turkish Armed Forces.

TÜBİTAK UEKAE, supplies equipment, software, system and technical support to Turkish Armed Forces and other government and private sector organizations and institutions in the area of Information Security.

Önder Yetiş, has very strong knowledge accumulation and experience of effective management of research and engineering systems and institutions in Turkish Public Telecommunication Systems and in the area of Military and Civil Information Security. He still serves as Director of TÜBİTAK–UEKAE and Acting President of TÜBİTAK Marmara Research Center. He was awarded the prize of TÜBİTAK HÜSAMETTİN TUĞAÇ Scientist and Researcher of the year and the prize of PTT 150th Anniversary Scientific Contest in 1990. He received the TÜBİTAK – Marmara Research Center Higher Achievement Prize in 1996.

He was elected as foreign member of Academy of Engineering Sciences of Russian Federation on the 14th February 2008 and was elected as foreign member (academician) of Academy of Technological Sciences of Ukraine on the 11th April 2008.

Önder Yetiş, speaks English and German