Awards & News

Burak Guzelturk, PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, has been selected as one of the 25 winners of Green Talents Competition 2014.

September 2014

Dr. Evren Mutlugun (Physics, PhD 2011), alumni of the research group of Assoc. Prof. Hilmi Volkan Demir, has been awarded with Outstanding Young Scientist Award by FABED (Feyzi Akkya Bilimsel Etkinlikleri Destekleme Fonu) based on his research works on “light generation based on quantum dots” during his graduate and postdoctoral research studies in Demir Research Group. Dr. Mutlugun is currently working as a faculty member at Abdullah Gul University, Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering.

September 2014

Assist. Prof. Sedat Nizamoğlu, has recently been selected as a winner of the Innovators Under 35 Turkey by the world’s oldest and most respected technology publication “MIT Technology Review”.
This year MIT Technology Review opened a competition for the first time in Turkey to identify the most innovative and creative young researchers. Dr. Sedat Nizamoglu, alumni of Bilkent University Electrical and Electronics Engineering (PhD) and Physics (MS), is awardedthe MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 – Turkey by the world’s one of the oldest and most respected technology publications “MIT Technology Review”. Dr. Nizamoglu has been announced one of the winners for his PhD thesis work under the supervision of Professor Hilmi Volkan Demir. Immediately completing his PhD study at Bilkent in 2011, Dr. Nizamoglu received a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship given by Harvard University (2011-2013). Following his postdoctoral work, Dr. SedatNizamogluhas returned his home country (2013) and is now an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Ozyegin University, Istanbul, and has started his research group working on bio-integrated photonics, neuroscience and photomedicine.

September 2014

Kivanc Gungor, PhD Student in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, awarded as a finalist for best student paper award in IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) 2013.

October 2013

Professor Demir has received Nanyang Award for Research Excellence.

September 2013