Utkan Demirci is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. In 2006, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[1]
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Utkan Demirci received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1999 as a James B. Angell Scholar (Summa Cum Laude) from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He received his M.S. degree in 2001 in Electrical Engineering, his M.S. degree in Management Science and Engineering in 2005, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2005, all from Stanford University.
Dr. Demirci is one of the few recipients of the prestigious Full Presidential Fellowship given by the Turkish Ministry of Education and is a corecipient of the 2002 Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society. He is the winner of Stanford University Entrepreneur’s Challenge Competition in 2004 and Global Start-up Competition in Singapore in 2004. He is also a member of Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society and the IEEE. His research interests involve biological applications of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) and acoustics, especially: microfluidics for low cost CD4 counts for HIV in resource-limited-settings for global health problems; acoustic picoliter droplets for cell-by-cell 3D tissue generation, and semiconductor applications; capacitive micromachined ultrasonic arrays (CMUTS) for medical imaging applications.
Utkan Demirci has won Honorary Bionanotechnology Award on December 11, 2007, in Istanbul, HST faculty member Utkan Demirci was presented with the Honorary Bionanotechnology Award for his work on a low-cost AIDS monitoring chip. The award was part of a set of annual technology awards presented jointly by the Turkish Technology Development Foundation, the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, and the Turkish Industralists' and Businessmen's Association.