Honors

  • IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation Premium (Best Paper) Award (2013)

  • IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (2010)

  • METU Mustafa Parlar Foundation Research Incentive Award (2010)

  • IEEE Conference on Signal Processing, Communications, and their Applications, Second Place Award in Best Student Paper Competition (2009)

  • The Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA) Distinguished Young Scientist Award (2008)

  • IEEE Conference on Signal Processing, Communications, and their Applications, Alper Atalay Best Student Paper Award (2008)

  • Elsevier Signal Processing Journal Best Paper Award (2007)

  • TÜBİITAK Career Award (2006)

  • International Conference on Information Fusion, Best Student Paper Award (co-author) (2005)

  • MIT Paul E. Gray (Endowed Fund) Award for undergraduate research project (advisor) (2004)

  • IEEE ICASSP paper rated as “top in its category” by reviewers (co-author) (2004)

  • American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, Outstanding Student Paper Award (co-author) (2003)

  • Boston University (Science Day), Best Engineering Research Award (1998)

  • Boston University, Graduate Research Assistantship (1995-2001)

  • Turkish NSF & NATO Doctoral Study Support Scholarship (1995)

  • Institute of Measurement and Control, Manchester Section Graduate Award (1994)

  • University of Salford, Highest GPA among 30 M.S. graduates in Electrical Engineering (1994)

  • The British Council, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Scholarship (1993-1994)

  • Turkish Education Foundation, Graduate Study Scholarship (1993-1994)

  • Boğaziçi University Alumni Association, Graduate of the Year Award (1993)

  • Boğaziçi University, High Honor Student Award (1993)

  • Perfect 800 Scores in GRE Quantitative and Analytical Exams (1992)

  • Koç Foundation, Undergraduate Scholarship (1989-1993)

  • Boğaziçi University Alumni Association, Undergraduate Scholarship (1989-1993)

  • Turkish University Entrance Exam (OYS), ranked 6th among 400,000
  • candidates (1989)

  • Turkish University Entrance Exam (OSS), ranked 7th among 700,000 candidates (1989)

  • Türkiye İş Bankası Prize for Top 66 Students in OYS (1989)