Ulkuhan Guler (Senior Member, IEEE) is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Director of the Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICAS) Laboratory at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Her research interests lie in the broad area of circuits and systems, with a primary focus on analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits. More specifically, she is interested in the circuit design of sensing interfaces, bioelectronics, energy harvesting and wireless power transmission systems, and security for applications in healthcare. To this end, her research has focused on how electronic interfaces can be engineered alongside biosensors to create wireless wearable and implantable sensors that measure physiological parameters in the human body.

Dr. Guler is the recipient of the 2022 NSF CAREER Award, and her research has been supported by a broad portfolio of federal grants from agencies including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR), supporting her work on wearable blood gas sensing and biomedical instrumentation. She is also the recipient of the 2020 Interstellar Initiative Young Investigator Award and was named among the 2026 Innovators in Healthcare honorees by the Boston Business Journal. Her research has resulted in seven patents and patent applications, including one issued U.S. patent. Her lab has also received sustained industry support from Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) for sensor research, direct chip fabrication support from TSMC, and participation in the CHIPS Act-funded Center for Education of Microchip Designers (CEMiD) program.

She has been a member of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society since 2017, and joined the SSCS Women in Circuits Committee in 2018, where she has been an active member organizing mentoring and networking events, panels, and workshops such as Rising Stars and Next Generation Circuit Designers at ISSCC, VLSI, and CICC. She serves as an Associate Editor for several IEEE journals, including IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters and IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, and as a steering committee member of the IEEE CICC, having served as Technical Program Committee Co-Chair of CICC’25, Technical Program Committee Chair of CICC’26, and Conference Chair of CICC’27, as well as Technical Program Co-Chair of BioCAS’26.

She joined WPI’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2018, where she has also co-authored three book chapters. Prior to WPI, she was a post-doctoral research fellow in the GT-Bionics Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology from 2015 to 2018, where she focused on biomedical applications for healthcare technology, as well as energy harvesting, wireless power transmission, and power management for IoT and biomedical applications. From 2006 to 2015, she was with the National Research Institute of Electronics & Cryptology, TUBITAK, Turkey, most recently as a principal design engineer in the Semiconductor Technologies Research (YITAL) group, where her focus was on the design of smart cards and RFIDs — the basis of today’s Internet of Things (IoT) — including physical security sensors, random number generators (RNG), and security countermeasures at the chip level, as well as wireless power and data transmission, analog front-end circuits, and oscillators.

Dr. Guler received the Ph.D. degree from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2014, where her research focused on security and cryptology, specifically oscillator-based True Random Number Generators (TRNGs). She received the M.E. degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2003, and the B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1999.