NSF Student Travel Grant for NSF BiotICC Workshop, January 2020; Invited Participant, 2019 Rising Stars in EECS, hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Oct. 29 - Nov. 1, 2019; Selected for 2019 iREDEFINE Workshop in conjunction with ECEDHA Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, March 23 - March 25, 2019; Reseacher of the Year Award, Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory, Georgia Tech, 2018; Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award 2018 within the School of ECE at Georgia Tech; ECE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, Georgia Tech, 2018; Selected to participate to The NSF I-Corps Sites Program at Georgia Tech, December 2017; Fellowship for Graduate Students by Turkish Scientic and Technical Research Council (TUBITAK), 2011-2013; Distinguished Graduate Scholarship awarded by Koc University, Turkey, 2011-2013; Graduated valedictorian from Middle East Technical University (METU). Turkey, 2011; EE493/494 Engineering Design Course Best Project award, METU, June 2011; Bulent Kerim Altay prize from Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, METU (Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010).
Research Experience
Postdoctoral Research Associate at Dr. Chris Contag's Lab, MSU, August 2020 - August 2021; Visiting Researcher at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, focusing on the impacts of social behavior on bacterial chemotaxis channels for molecular communication, September 2014 - November 2014; Visiting Researcher at University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, working on gateways among bio-nanothings networks, May 2016 - July 2016.
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020, under Prof. Dr. Ian F. Akyildiz; M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Koc University, 2013, under Prof. Dr. Ozgur Baris Akan; B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University, 2011.
Background
Research Interests: Wireless communication and networking, specifically Molecular Communications and Internet of Bio-NanoThings, and their applications to healthcare. Brief: Assistant Professor in both the Department of Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Michigan State University since Fall 2021.
Miscellany
Recruiting new PhD students and postdocs. Interested candidates should send an email to unluturk@msu.edu including their CV and a short description of their research interests.