- Elginkan Foundation, Science Award, 2020
- Sedat Simavi Foundation, Science Award, 2019
- 1st Place Award, 2019 Koç Holding Companies, the Most Successful of the Year Award, Innovation Category, for Tarabios Point-of-Care Diagnostics Platform
- 1st Place Award, 2018 Koç Holding Companies, the Most Successful of the Year Award, Innovation Category, for Cyclops Head-Mounted Projection Display
- 1st Place Award, 2016 Koç Holding Companies, the Most Successful of the Year Award, Business Development Category, for Quantag Nanotagging System
- ERC-AdG European Research Council, Advanced Grant (2.5 Million€). Only recipient from Turkey.
- Science Academy of Turkey, Elected member, 2014
- Koç University, Outstanding Faculty Award, 2013
- TÜBİTAK-Encouragement Award from the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (2009).
- TÜBA-GEBİP Distinguished Young Scientist Award from Turkish Academy of Sciences (2007)
- Special award from Microvision Inc. for Outstanding contributions to “Advancement of Scanner Technologies.” (2008)
- Werner Von Siemens Faculty Excellence Award for outstanding research performance at Koç University (2006)
- IEEE Senior Member (Dec 2009)
- Ten Outstanding Young Person (TOYP) Award in Science and Technology category, Junior Chamber International (JCI) Turkey (2008).
- New Focus Student Award, Optical Society of America Annual Meeting (1995)
- Co-operative program certificate, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA (1997)
- Among the 3 recipients of TUBITAK-NATO Science Program Graduate Fellowship (1992)
- Recipient of Haci Omer SABANCI Foundation scholarship for 4 years (1988-1992)
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Koç University
