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Alameda, California, United States

• Building tiny implantable medical devices

San Francisco Bay Area

• Developing non-invasive neuromodulation therapies for CNS disorders

• Got invited to propose a research topic in Frontiers in Neuroscience: Translational Neuroscience journal
• Built a team of 6 multidisciplinary scientist and physicians as the editorial team
• Authored an editorial article summarizing the articles accepted to the research topic

Houston, Texas, United States

• Designed flexible miniature circuit to perform and collect UV spectroscopy data in a wireless indwelling catheter for urinary track infection prediction

Houston, Texas

• Discovered novel neuro-biomarkers for deep brain stimulation therapy - 2 patents pending
• Created a real-time neural processing tool for targeting the optimal site in brain surgery, with MATLAB/Simulink
• Oversaw 2 clinical studies (~$2M), including IRB preparation, data collection, review, publication and presentation
• Developed a pipeline reducing offline neural data analysis time per subject from multiple days to <24 hours
• Built a wearable accelerometer sensor to quantify patients’ tremor levels, utilizing Arduino platform
• Mentored 2 junior PhD, 3 masters and 3 undergraduate students and contributed to their projects/publications

Houston, Texas

• Bioinstrumentation Lab, Biomedical Signal Processing, Math. Methods for Biomedical Engineers
• Supervised the bioinstrumentation laboratory and taught fundamentals of circuit design and bio-signal processing
• Prepared and assessed 30+ students’ lab reports, homework and tests and provided feedback

Houston, Texas Area

• Volunteered to promote life science innovation in local healthcare ecosystem by connecting with key opinion leaders in relevant institutions and by organizing/participating innovation events in those institutions

• Led team of 3 in providing consulting services to 2 medical device startups on finalizing prototypes, market analysis, business plan and regulatory pathways

Ankara, Turkey

• Analog electronics
• Supervised the circuit design laboratory to design an analog radio with 10m range
• Prepared and assessed 40+ students’ lab reports, assignments, tests and provided feedback

Ankara, Turkey

• Developed a CANBus communicator on IXXAT boards in C#

Ankara, Türkiye

• Implemented protocols RS232, I2C and SPI on XILINX FPGA boards in VHDL

Doctor Of Philosophy, Neuroscience, Best Dissertation Award

Research focus: Investigation of electro-pathophysiology of neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease through modulation of.

Minor, Economics

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, High Honors

Activities and Societies: Community Volunteers Foundation (TOG), Robotics Club, Amateur Radio Club