June 2015,  2015 “Thesis of The Year” Award by Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences in METU, Thesis Co-Supervisor, Awarded to Mr. Garsha Bahrieh’s M.Sc. Thesis

April 2015, “Young Scientist Prize” by Science Academy, Turkey

Oct. 2014,  2014 “The Outstanding Young Person in Science and Technology” Award by JCI, Turkey

July 2014, Outstanding Paper Award (IOP Dielectrics Group Mansel Davies Award 2014), Dielectrophoresis 2014 Conference, London, UK. Awarded to the paper:Y. Demircan, M. Erdem, E. Özgür, U. Gündüz, and H Külah, “Label-Free Multidrug Resistance Detection in MCF-7 Cells by Isolated 3D-Electrode Dielectrophoresis,”

June 2014,  2014 “Thesis of The Year” Award by Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences in METU, Thesis Co-Supervisor, Awarded to Mr. Levent Beker’s M.Sc. Thesis

Dec. 2013,  2013 “Thesis of The Year” Award by Prof. Mustafa PARLAR Education and Research Foundation in METU, Thesis Co-Supervisor, Awarded to Dr. Hatice Ceylan Koydemir’s Ph.D. Thesis

Nov. 2013, IBM Faculty Award,

July 2013, Research Encouragement Award, by TÜBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey)

June 2013, Outstanding Paper Award, International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems, Transducers’13, Barcelona, Spain. Awarded to the paper: L. Beker, Ö. Zorlu, N. Göksu, and H Külah, “Stimulating Auditory Nerve with MEMS Harvesters for Fully Implantable and Self-Powered Cochlear Implant,”

March 2013, 1st Place Award for the patent application entitled as “An Energy-Harvesting Cochlear Implant” in TET R&D Project Brokerage Event (with Mr. Levent Beker and Prof. Dr. Nebil Göksu)

Nov. 2012, 1st Place Award in Patents in Application Phase Category for the patent application entitled as “An Energy-Harvesting Cochlear Implant,” 2. Ar-Ge ve Teknoloji Gunleri, ArEge2, (with Mr. Levent Beker and Prof. Dr. Nebil Göksu)

2011, “METU Outstanding Young Researcher Award” Middle East Technical University, 2011.

May 2010,  Best Student Paper Award, BiyoMUT 2010 (National Conference on Biomedical Systems), Awarded to Ms. Hatice Ceylan Koydemir’s paper

April 2010, Dr. Serhat Özyar Thesis Award (Honorary), Awarded to Dr. İbrahim Sarı’s Ph.D. Thesis

2009, “METU Outstanding Young Researcher Award,” Middle East Technical University, 2009.

Dec. 2009, “Research Encouragement” Award by Prof. Mustafa PARLAR Education and Research Foundation in METU,

Dec. 2009,  2009 “Thesis of The Year” Award by Prof. Mustafa PARLAR Education and Research Foundation in METU, Thesis Supervisor, Awarded to Mr. Ata Tuna Çiftlik’s M.Sc. Thesis

May 2008, Best Student Paper Award, BiyoMUT 2008 (National Conference on Biomedical Systems), Awarded to Mr. Ata Tuna Çiftlik’s paper

Oct. 2007, Best Student Poster Award, 11th Int. Conf. on Miniaturized Sys. for Chem. and Life Sci., µTAS’07, Awarded to Mr. Sertan Sukas’s poster

June 2002,  3rd Place Award in 2002 DAC Design Contest (Operational Category), which is organized by Design Automation Conference among a number of universities in the world.

Feb. 2002, Finalist of the 2002 Pryor-Hale Business Plan Competition, organized by Business School of University of Michigan, with Sirius Project on commercialization of micro-g accelerometers.

Jan. 2000, 1st Place Award in 2000 Student Design Contest (Conceptual Category) which is organized by University of Michigan among a number of universities in the world and sponsored by CADENCE, Mentor Graphics, TI, IBM, Intel, Compaq, AMD, Lucent Tech., Dallas SemiConductor, QualComm and Design Automation Conference 2000. (with Michael McCorquodale, Ark-Chew Wong, and Karthik Nagarajan)

Jan. 2000, Best Paper Award in 2000 Student Design Contest for the paper entitled as “An Integrated MEMS-BiCMOS SINCGARS Transceiver.” (with M McCorquodale, A-C Wong, and K Nagarajan)

Jan. 2000, 3rd Place Award in 2000 Student Design Contest (Operational Category)

June 1999, 3rd Place Award in 1999 Student VLSI Design Contest (Experienced Class)

June 1999, 1999 “Thesis of The Year” Award by Prof. Mustafa PARLAR Education and Research Foundation in METU for the master thesis titled “A CMOS Integrated PtSi Schottky-Barrier Infrared Detector for Night Vision Applications,”