People

Ulkuhan Guler received the B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1999. She received the M.Sc. degree in 2003, in Electronics Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, and the Ph.D. degree in Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2014. She joined the National Research Institute of Electronics & Cryptology, TUBITAK, Turkey, in 2006. Until 2015 summer, she was with the Semiconductor Technologies Research (YITAL) group in TUBITAK as a principal design engineer. She worked as a post-doc research fellow in GT-Bionics Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology from 2015 to 2018.  more

Tuna Berk Tufan received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2020 and the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA, in 2022. He interned at Analog Devices as a mixed-signal design engineer during the summer of 2022. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree with the Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICAS) Lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His Ph.D. research focuses on the analog and mixed-signal design for wearable, noninvasive sensors for monitoring respiratory functions. more

Burak Kahraman received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, in 2021. In 2019 summer, he conducted a summer internship in TUBITAK with a focus on PCB design with Altium Designer. In the 2020 summer, he also conducted a summer internship at ASELSAN Inc. with a focus on a GUI design with C#. During his senior year, he worked as a candidate engineer at ASELSAN Inc. with a focus on RF design. He joined the Ph.D. program of ECE at WPI in the fall of 2021. His Ph.D. research focus at ICAS Lab is on transcutaneous blood gas monitoring.

Amin Hazrati Marangalou received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Urmia University, Urmia, Iran, in 2016 and his M.Sc. degree in Integrated circuit (IC) design from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, in 2019. During his Master’s program, he focused on the design of radio frequency integrated circuits (RFIC) and the development of tunable RF filters for RF receivers. From 2019 to 2021, he worked as a junior scientist, conducting research in RFIC design at the research unit “Frontend Integrated Circuits and Systems” at Silicon Austria Labs (SAL) in Villach, Austria. more

Vladimir Vakhter received his Specialist (a 5.5-year) Degree in Electronics & Automation of Physical Machines from the Ural Federal University (UrFU), Russia in 2016. Being awarded a Fulbright grant, he received his M.S. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), the U.S. in 2021. For two and a half years, Vladimir conducted research on luminescent and scintillation materials at UrFU. Thereafter for two years, he developed a special magneto-optical system for the analysis of ferromagnets at the Russian Academy of Sciences. more

Işıl Işıksalan earned her B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, in February 2023. She completed an internship as a digital circuit design engineer at ATEK MIDAS during the spring break of 2020. In the Fall semester of 2021, she gained experience in semiconductor technologies while working as an external employee at TU-WIEN Institute of Solid State Electronics, during her Erasmus Mobility. During her senior year, Işıksalan began a long-term internship at TUBITAK BILGEM YITAL (Semiconductor Research Laboratory) with a focus on Technology Computer-Aided Design (TCAD). more

Gokalp Cevik received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2024. During his senior year, he worked on hardware-accelerated (FPGA-based) machine learning algorithms for computational fluid dynamics. He also completed his summer internship at the Integrated Circuits Research Group at Istanbul Bilgi University in 2023. Before that, he worked on real-time graphics on FPGAs and PDMS-based flexible piezoresistive strain sensors. He joined the Ph.D. program in ECE at WPI in the fall of 2024. His research at the Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICAS) Lab is focused on transcutaneous blood gas monitoring.

Parisa Saadatmand Hashemi received her bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran in September 2019. Following her graduation, Parisa started working as an electronic intern and engineer in a start-up firm in Tehran for a year. In this firm, she contributed to designing and implementing magnetic field measurement circuits with the application in navigation systems and metal detector devices. During her experience, she gained valuable hands-on skills in analog and digital circuits design. Additionally, she analyzed a metal detector device through reverse-engineering its circuits and obtained innovative analog circuit design methods. more

Miriam Centella earned her bachelor’s degree in Electromechanical Engineering from the Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá in 2023. She is a Fulbright-SENACYT scholar, currently pursuing a master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). With a year of experience as a maintenance engineer in the food industry, Miriam is now focused on integrating her engineering expertise with advancements in medical devices to drive biomedical innovation. 

Jack Adiletta is an undergraduate student receiving his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as Data Science in the spring of 2025. He is also working towards his M.S. in Electrical Engineering through the BS-MS program. He is a Goldwater Scholar with a focus on innovation at the intersection of the fields of analog circuits, digital design, and artificial intelligence. He is an intern at Intel in the Network and Edge group, designing and analyzing network interface chip compiler tools. His interests are in analog design and accelerators for artificial intelligence.

John Lemieux is an undergraduate student working towards his B.S./M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and plans to graduate with both in 2025. He has experience working on PCB design, soldering, and circuit design from Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School. He is interested in working in Computer Architecture and Analog Signals. His research at ICAS is on the transcutaneous oxygen sensing PCB design.

Genesis Bernabel is an undergraduate student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) pursuing a B.S./M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and is expected to graduate in 2025. Alongside her engineering studies, Genesis is enrolled in WPI’s teacher preparation program and plans to graduate with a High School Physics License. She has hands-on experience in electrical construction from Worcester Technical High School and is actively engaged in research at the ICAS lab, where she focuses on optimizing the power system of a transcutaneous blood oxygen sensor.