Selim Olcum

Selim Olçum was born in Chicago, IL, in 1981. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 2003, 2005, and 2010, respectively, all from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He worked as a guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Semiconductor Electronics Division, Gaithers-burg, MD, during the summers of 2002 and 2003. He was a visiting scholar in the Micromachined Sensors and Transducers Laboratory of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, in 2006. He was an instructor in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Bilkent University for six months in 2011. He is currently a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Biological Engineering and the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. His dissertation work was focused on developing high-performance micromachined ultrasonic transducers. His current research focus at MIT is to develop real-time techniques for biomolecular detection using micro- and nano-electromechanical devices. Dr. Selim Olçum was a fellow of ASELSAN during his Ph.D. study.