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Mihri Ozkan

Mihri Ozkan

Associate Professor,

Department of Electrical Engineering,

Department of Bioengineering,

Materials Science Program,
Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering

Director,

Biomedical Science and Nanotechnology Laboratory

 

Training:

Ph.D., Electrical & Computer Engineering UC San Diego (2001)
Process Dev. Eng., Applied Materials Inc., Santa Clara (95-97)
Process Engineer, Analog Devices Inc., Santa Clara, CA (94-95)
M.S., Materials Science and Eng., Stanford University, CA (1994)
M.S., Materials Science and Eng.,Univ.of Illinois-Urbana (1990)
B.S., Metallurgical Eng., Middle East Tech. Univ., Ankara (1988)

 

Selected Awards and Honors:

1.     “National Medal for Engineering Science Young Investigator ”, by the Society of Engineering Science (2009)

2.     “Young Frontier in Engineering” Honor by the National Academy of Engineering (2008)

3.     “Finalist” Featured at the Bridge Magazine by the National Academy of Engineering (2008)

4.     “Inventor Recognition Award”, The Focus Center Research Program Global Research Collaboration (FCRP/GRC), Semiconductor Research Corporation (2008)

5.     “Young Investigator Award”, by the Army (2006)

6.     “Distinguished Engineering Educator of the Year Award” by the National Engineers’ Council (2006)

7.     “National Emerging Scholar Award” by the American Association of University Women (2005)

8.     “Nifty Fifty of San Diego’s Most Inspiring Scientist” Honor, by the San Diego Science Festival (2008-9)

9.     Member of the United States Delegation, The Fifth United States-Korea Forum on Nanotechnology: Nano-Biotechnology, Jeju Island, Korea (2008)

10.  Invitee and panel participant to DOD’s Nanotechnology for Chemical and Biological Defense in 2030 Workshop, Santa Fe (2007)

11.  “2006 Referee of the Year” Award by the Journal of Biomedical Microdevices (2007)

12.   “Faculty of Excellence” Award, by the Regents (2006)

13.  “Scientist in Nanotechnology Recognition” Award, Nanotechnology Workshop, by Bilkent University, Turkey (2006)

14.  Invitee and presenter at the Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Light-Emitting Diodes Army-OLED-Workshop, Tempe, Arizona (2006)

15.  Invitee and panel participant to the National Academy’s Keck Future Initiatives Conference, by the National Academy (2005)

16.  “Behram Kursunoglu Science Award”, by the DOFA, California (2005)

17.  “Faculty of Excellence” Award, by the Regents (2004)

18.  “Visionary Science Award”, BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology Conference, Washington (2003)

19.  Member of the United States Delegation, US-Japan Nanotechnology in Advanced Therapy and Diagnosis Symposium, Yokohama, Japan (2003)

20.  “Achievement in Technical Ingenuity” Award,  Inland Empire Economic Partnership (2003)

21.  "Research Leadership Recognition Award" from CORE21 (2003)

22.  “Faculty of Excellence” Award, by the Regents (2002)

23.  Invited Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany (2002)

24.  “Grand Award for the Graduate Research Poster”, Jacobs School of Engineering, San Diego (2002)

25.  “Best Graduate Research Poster Award”  in Bioengineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, San Diego (2002)

26.   “Graduate Student Award”, Jacobs School of Engineering , San Diego (2001)

27.  “Best Graduate Poster Award”, Jacobs School of Engineering, San Diego (2001)

28.  “Graduate Student Award”, Biomedical Engineering Society, Seattle, WA (2000)

29.  “Graduate Student Novel Research Award”, Biomaterials Session at the Materials Research Society, Boston (2000)

30.  “Graduate Student Silver Award”, by the Materials Research Society, Boston (Fall 1999)

31.  DARPA’s HOTC and CHIPS centers Fellow, San Diego, (1999-2001)

32.  “Best Graduate Poster Award”, Jacobs School of Engineering, San Diego, (1998)

33.  University of California Regents Fellow, San Diego, (1997- 1999)

34.  Stanford University Fellowship, Stanford, (1993-94)

Biography:
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Prof. Mihri Ozkan is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at UC-Riverside with a highly interdisciplinary research focus on nanotechnology. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC-San Diego and her M.S. degree from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. She has over four years of industrial experience including at Applied Materials, Analog Devices and at IBM Almaden Research Center. Her highly interdisciplinary background including materials science, electrical engineering and bioengineering training supports well her recent multidisciplinary research activities on the development of beyond CMOS fabrication and integration methods for future electronics, on hybrid organic-inorganic solar platforms, and on investigation of “smart” nanoparticles for cancer therapeutics. Prof. Ozkan is the recipient of number of recognitions including; 1) The Engineering Science Young Investigator Medal by the Society of Engineering Science (2009), 2) 2008 Frontiers of Engineering honor by the National Academy of Engineering, 3) Army’s Young Investigator Award (2006), 4)Distinguished Engineering Educator of the Year Award by the National Engineers’ Council (2006), 5)Emerging Scholar Award by the American Association of University Women (2005), 6)Invited participant to the National Academy’s Keck Future Initiatives Conference (2005), 7)Visionary Science Award by the BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology Conference (2003),and 8)“Achievement in Technical Ingenuity” Award by the Inland Empire Economic Partnership (2003).

Prof. Ozkan is member of several national centers; 1) FCRP-the Center of Functional Engineered Nanoarchitectronics, 2) NSF-the Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing, 3) NCI-Nanotumor Center, 4) DOD-the Center of Nanoscience for Innovation in Defense and 5) UCR-the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering. Prof. Ozkan is the theme leader in the FCRP-FENA center and is coordinating research activities on the Nanostructures and Patterns within the center. Her editorial activities include the Journal of Sensors and Actuators B and the Journal of Biomedical Microdevices.  She is the principal editor of the book titled “Micro-Nano Technologies for Genomics and Proteomics” by Springer. She has more than hundred publications in the format of journal papers, conference proceedings and book chapters. She also holds more than twenty five patent disclosures and about eight US-patents.

RESEARCH INTEREST:


Dr. Mihri Ozkan's research interests include hybrid organic/inorganic systems where recent developments in nanotechnology are applied towards the fabrication of new age electronics, photovoltaics, biosensors and also towards cancer diagnosis and therapeutics. Dr. Mihri Ozkan is an advocate of "multi-disciplinary" education, and she puts extra emphasis on multi-disciplinary training of her students in the Biomedical Science and Nanotechnology laboratory.