2007 CIMIT Award, selected among many applications at MIT and Harvard University
2006 TR-35, MIT Technology Review Magazine, World’s top 35 young innovators under the age of 35, based on my research on low-cost HIV diagnostics
2005 Turkish Ministry of Education, Honor of the Year Award
2005 Cover Image of IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonic, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control with “Forward-viewing annular CMUT arrays for Medical Imaging”
2004 1st Place, Winner of Accenture Grand Prize at Global Startup at Singapore Business Plan Competition, based on my dissertation topic. This is a global success among 20 schools around the globe such as Harvard, Berkeley, Kellogg, IIT, Wharton, Insead, London School of Business. (http://global.startup.org.sg)
2004 1st Place, Stanford University BASES Entrepreneur’s Challenge Business Plan Competition based on my dissertation, out of 54 teams
2003 Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonic, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control with “Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers: Next-Generation Arrays for Acoustic Imaging?”
2001 RWB Stephens Student Prize of Elsevier Science, Proc. of Ultrasonic International, with "Ultrasonic imaging using cMUT arrays"
1999 Phi Kappa Phi, National Honor Society, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1997-1999 Dean’s List Scholar every semester, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1999 EECS Department Research Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1999 James B. Angell Scholar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1999 Class Honors, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1998 EECS Department Research Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1997 Dean’s List, SIT, Hoboken
1996 Presidential Scholarship of Excellence from Turkish Ministry of Education, granted to 14 students nationwide out of 1.5 million high school graduates allowing them to attend a college wherever they please around the globe.
1995 Ranked 81st out of 1.5 million high school graduates nationwide in Turkish University Entrance Exams.