Education

2005, Ph.D.

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Electrical Engineering Department

2002, M.S.

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Electrical Engineering Department

2000, B.S.

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Post-doctoral Training

06/2005 — 01/2006

Post-doctoral Fellow, Electrical Engineering Dept., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Academic Appointments – Research Experience

02/2011 — present

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

07/2007 — 02/2011

Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

02/2006 — 07/2007

Instructor (Faculty Member), Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA (Instructor position at Harvard Medical School is equivalent to a junior level research faculty position and does not involve teaching.)

06/05 — 01/2006

Post-doctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Electrical Engineering Dept., Stanford, CA, USA

09/00 — 06/05

Research Assistant, Stanford University, Electrical Engineering Dept., Stanford, CA, USA

Teaching & Mentoring Experience

07/2007 — present

Teaching undergraduate courses and mentoring 3 PhD and 3 undergraduate students

07/2006 — 07/2007

Mentoring undergraduate students from Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology as part of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).

Professional Societies

2000 — Present

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member.

2000 — Present

IEEE Photonics Society (LEOS), Member.

2000 — Present

Optical Society of America (OSA), Member.

2006 — Present

The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), Senior Member.

2008 — Present

Biomedical Engineering Society, Member.

Editorial Boards – Professional Service

2009 — Present

Program Committee Member, IEEE Photonics Society Annual Meeting

2008 — Present

Program Committee Member, SPIE Photonics West Conference

2008 — Present

Panelist & Reviewer, National Science Foundation

2008 — Present

Reviewer, Harvard-MIT Innovative Technology for Medicine Program (CIMIT)

2008 — Present

Research Committee Member, UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)

2004 — Present

Ad hoc reviewer, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

2004 — Present

Ad hoc reviewer, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology

2005 — Present

Ad hoc reviewer, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

2005 — Present

Ad hoc reviewer, Journal of Optical Society of America, B

2005 — Present

Ad hoc reviewer, Optics Letters

2005 — Present

Ad hoc reviewer, Electronics Letters

2006 — Present

Ad hoc reviewer, Micro & Nano Letters

2006 — Present

Ad hoc reviewer, Optics Express

2006 — Present

Ad hoc reviewer, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

2007 — Present

Ad hoc reviewer, Optical Materials

2007 — Present

Ad hoc reviewer, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Awards And Honors

· SPIE Early Career Achievement Award, 2011

· Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award, 2010

· NSF CAREER Award, 2010

· National Geographic Emerging Explorer Award, 2010

· Grand Challenges Explorations Award, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2010

· Netexplorateur Award, Netexplorateur Observatory and Forum, France, 2010

· NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, 2009

· MIT’s TR35 Award, 2009

· Wireless Innovation Project, Vodafone Foundation, 2009 Winner

· Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, 2009

· IEEE Photonics Society (LEOS) Young Investigator Award, 2009

· Okawa Foundation Research Award, 2008

· Outstanding paper award, BMES Annual Fall Meeting, October, 2008.

· National Science Foundation Award on “Biophotonics, Advanced Imaging, and Sensing for Human Health”, 2008

· Outstanding paper award, Gordon Research Conference, Lasers in Medicine and Biology, July, 2006.

· 1996, Turkish Ministry of Education, Presidential Fellowship (declined)

Prof. Ozcan’s Short Biosketch

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