Professional Activities:

2014 - present	Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL, USA Research Interest: Advanced compound semiconductor devices
2011 - 2014 (~3 years)	Postdoctoral Research Scientist, IBM Research, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA Research Area: III-V devices (light emitting diodes, solar cells, transistors) and co- integration with silicon, flexible thin film devices, epitaxial graphene
2010 - 2011 (~ 9 months)	Research Fellow, IBM Research, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA Research Area: Novel GaN-based terahertz photonic devices
2010 - 2011 (~ 1 year)	Energy Fellow, Link Foundation Energy Programs, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, NH, USA Research Area: High performance GaN-based visible light emitting diodes
2005 - 2010 (~ 5 years)	Research Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, IL, USA Research Area: High efficiency wide bandgap (AlGaInN and MgZnO) photonic devices: Ultraviolet detectors and green light emitting diodes
2004 - 2005 (~ 1 year)	Research Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, TR Research Area: Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer arrays
2003 - 2003 (~ 3 months)	Research Intern, ASELSAN, Ankara, TR Research Area: Communication and information technologies
2002 - 2002 (~ 3 months)	Visiting Researcher, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, CA, USA Research Area: Novel ultrasonic micro-electro-mechanical systems

Select Honors, Awards, & Recognitions

• (2014) IEEE Electron Devices Society Early Career Award (awarded annually to one in the world - by IEEE Electron Devices Society)
• (2014) Docent (Associate Professor) title in Electrical Engineering from the Turkish  Council of Higher Education
• (2014, 2013, 2013) IBM Invention Achievement Awards (by International Business Machines Corporation)
• (2012) Best Paper Award at Infrared Optoelectronics Materials and Devices Conference, (MIOMD-XI) (co-chaired by Nobel Laureates Prof. Leo Esaki, and Klaus von Klitzing)
• (2010) IBM Ph.D. Fellowship (awarded annually to select researchers in the world by International Business Machines Corporation)
• (2010) Link Foundation Energy Fellowship (awarded annually to three in USA and Canada by Link Foundation)
• (2010) IEEE Electron Devices Society PhD Fellowship (awarded annually to three in the world - one in USA - by IEEE Electron Devices Society)
• (2009) Boeing Engineering Student of the Year (awarded annually to one in the world by Boeing Company)
• (2009) IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship (awarded annually to twelve in the world - seven in USA - by IEEE Photonics Society)
• (2009) SPIE Laser Technology, Engineering and Applications Scholarship (awarded annually to one in the world - third top recognition - by SPIE Society)
• (2009) Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship (awarded annually to ten in the world by ICDD)
• (2008) Dow Sustainability Innovation Award (awarded to one in select worldwide universities by Dow Chemical Company)
• (2005) Northwestern University Research Assistantship (awarded for encouraging PhD enrollment)
• (2005) IEEE UFFC Undergraduate Travel Award (awarded to select students in the world by IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society)
• (2005) Bilkent University High Honors Graduation (awarded by Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey))
• (2001) Bilkent University Undergraduate Scholarship (awarded nationwide to top students by Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey))

Professional And Honorary Societies

Member	2010-present	Institute of Physics (IOP)
Member	2009-present	Electrochemical Society (ECS)
Member	2009-present	American Association for the Advancement of Science
Member	2009-present	IEEE Electron Devices Society (IEEE EDS)
Member	2008-present	American Physical Society (APS)
Member	2008-present	Materials Research Society (MRS)
Member	2007-present	IEEE Photonics Society
Senior Member	2006-present	SPIE Society
Member	2005-present	Optical Society of America (OSA)
Member	2005-present	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

 

Professional Activities

• Proposal Reviewer European Research Council (ERC), 2015
• National Science Foundation (NSF), 2013
• Department of Energy (DOE), 2012

Teaching / Courses

ECE 340 Semiconductor Electronics, ECE 340 Semiconductor Electronics,	2015 Spring 2014 Fall	(Class of 50 Students) (Class of 25 Students)
ECE 397 Individual Study in ECE Problems, ECE 597 Individual Study in ECE	2014 Fall to present 2014 Fall to present	(Supervision of 5 Students) (Supervision of 1 Students)