Recognitions » Awards, Honors & Fellowships

Awards, honors, and fellowships recognizing Professor Ulkuhan Guler’s research and contributions to the field.

Awards & Honors

• WiCAS Best Paper Award (Oct. 2025)
  IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS) – “A 23-μJ-per-frame Fully-Integrated U-Net-Based TinyML Processor for Real-Time and Autonomous Medical Image Segmentation” (with Zhiye Song and Anantha Chandrakasan, MIT)
• NSF CAREER Award (2022–2027)
  National Science Foundation (NSF) – “CAREER: LUCO: A Noninvasive Miniaturized Blood Gas Sensor for Respiration Monitoring” ($500,000)
• Recognition of IEEE Senior Membership (Oct. 2019)
  Officers and Board of Directors of the IEEE

Fellowships & Scholarships

• Early Career Investigator Fellowship (2019–2020)
  Interstellar Initiative (presented jointly by the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) and the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS))
• Women’s Young Investigator Fellowship (2018–2019)
  Awarded by WPI’s Women Impact Network
• International Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (08/2015–08/2016)
  Awarded by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)