About us

FRESHDATA Technology
FRESHDATA was founded in 2022, as a spin-off of the METU Communication Networks Research Group (CNG).
FRESHDATA turns world-leading communications research to disruptive advanced technology for the scale-up of terrestrial and Space-based IoT.
Over the last year we filed 12 new patents that can impact 6G, LoRa/LoRaWAN, and Space communication standardization. Our first flagship product is the LPWAN Tunneling Relay, based on one of our pending patents, powered by our trademark LoRaFRESH protocol, which is the world’s first age-aware LoRa. The FRESHDATA relay will stand out in the emerging LPWAN relay market by its energy efficiency, backward compatibility, and its ability to support a larger number of IoT devices. We will make the PoC demonstration of the FRESHDATA relay on an environmental IoT system deployed on a beach, for groundwater and ecosystem monitoring. The relay will have applications wherever LPWANs are used: smart cities, agriculture, monitoring of highways, gas pipelines, electrical distribution systems, as well as satellite uplink access for land and maritime IoT. FRESHDATA brings together a team at the frontier of semantic and goal-oriented communication research as well as implementation and prototyping of wireless multiuser systems, embedded software, and business development. We also have two industry leading advisors, from whose experience we will benefit greatly.
The Team

Elif Uysal, Ph.D. – CEO
Fellow, IEEE
Professor @ METU EE
Founding Director of CNG
Ph. D: Stanford Uni.; S.M.: MIT

Sajjad Baghaee, Ph. D. – CTO
Sr. IoT Engineer
PostDoc Researcher at METU
METU EE MSc ’12, Ph. D ’23

Süleyman ÇITIR
BSEE, METU EE
IPR Development &
Communication Engineer

Burak Aydar
Candidate Engineer, METU EE
Electronic Systems Design Engineer

Barkın Ergür
BSEE, METU
Embedded Systems

Görkem Yıldırım
Candidate Engineer, METU EE
Electronic Systems Design Engineer
HR & Administration

Ayça Osunluk
BS, CS Bilkent
HR and Procurement
Business Development & Marketing

Hakan Duman
BSEE, METU EE
Business Development Expert
Former CEO of a deep tech company with successful fundraising experience.
Responsible for the EU and Australian markets
High Level Advisor

Ahmet Oral, PhD
Founder, Nanomagnetic Instruments.
Professor Emeritus, METU