Awards, honors, and fellowships recognizing Professor Ulkuhan Guler’s research and contributions to the field.
Awards & Honors
- Boston Business Journal Innovators in Healthcare Honoree (Feb. 2026)
Named one of 14 “Innovators in Healthcare 2026” by the Boston Business Journal, formally recognized at an event in Boston on February 12, 2026 - 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) - Honorary Member, National Academy of Inventors (NAI) (Apr. 2024)
WPI Chapter - NSF CAREER Award (2022–2027)
National Science Foundation (NSF) – “CAREER: LUCO: A Noninvasive Miniaturized Blood Gas Sensor for Respiration Monitoring” ($500,000) - Outstanding Team Presentation Award (2022)
New York Academy of Sciences – Interstellar Initiative Workshop - Outstanding Team Presentation Award (2020)
New York Academy of Sciences – Interstellar Initiative Workshop - 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)