Awards

  1. Dean`s List for Outstanding Teaching Performance, Koc University, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2017.

  2. President`s List for Outstanding Teaching Performance, Koc University, Fall 2014.

  3. 2014 IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award in the back-end category for the paper titled Modeling and Analysis of Nonstationary Low-Frequency Noise in Circuit Simulators: Enabling Non Monte Carlo Techniques at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design held in San Jose, California in November 2014.

  4. IEEE Fellow, 2012.

  5. TUBITAK 2219 Research Fellowship, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2009.

  6. Young Scientist Award, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), 2007.

  7. Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Career Award, 2004.

  8. 2004 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award for the paper, PhaseNoise and Timing Jitter in Oscillators with Colored-Noise Sources, in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – Part I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, vol. 49, no. 12, pp. 1782-1791, December 2002.

  9. 2003 IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award for the paper titled Noise Analysis for Optical Fiber Communication Systems at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design held in San Jose, California in November 2003.

  10. Distinguished Young Scientist Award, Turkish Academy of Sciences, 2003.

  11. Best paper award, for the paper Time-Domain non-Monte Carlo Noise Simulation for Nonlinear Dynamic Circuits with Arbitrary Excitations in The Best of ICCAD: 20 years of excellence in computer-aided design, 2002.

  12. Regents Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1991-92.

  13. Eugene C. and Mona Fay Gee Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1991-92.

  14. One of the four NATO Honorary Fellows in Electrical Engineering selected by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), 1991.

  15. Ranked 2nd (department salutatorian) and 3rd (university-wide) in the graduating class of the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, 1991.

  16. Undergraduate merit fellowships from Bilkent University, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), and the SABANCI Foundation, 1987-1991.

  17. Represented Turkey in the 18th International Physics Olympiad as part of a team of 5, Jena, Germany,1987.

  18. First prize in a national competition in physics, organized every year by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) among high school seniors, 1987.

  19. Ranked 14th (first-stage, OSS) and 49th (second-stage, OYS) in the university entrance examinations among eight hundred thousand high school seniors in Turkey, 1987.

  20. Ranked 3rd in graduating class at Ankara Fen Lisesi, 1987.