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). Following graduation, she continued to work at the same laboratory as an Electronics Engineer, specializing in the TCAD simulation of semiconductor devices, particularly CMOS Technology.
In the fall of 2023, Işıksalan joined the Ph.D. program in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree at the Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICAS) Lab at WPI. Her Ph.D. research at the ICAS Lab is focused on transcutaneous blood gas monitoring.