Associate Prof. Dr. Heba Yüksel

Associate Professor Dr. Heba Yuksel received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP) in 1996, M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1998 and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from UMCP in 2005. In 2005, she was a postdoctorate research associate at UMCP. On 1998, she worked as a system engineer at Conexant Systems, Newport Beach, California. Between 1999 and 2002, she worked as a hardware design engineer at Ciena Corporation in Linthicum, Maryland. She is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. She is heading the “Photonics and Optical Wireless Communication Laboratory” (POWCOL) at Bogazici University. Her research interests include Atmospheric turbulence, transmitter/receiver design, aperture averaging, and image sensing for Free-Space Optical Communication (Optical Wireless) links, Visible Light Communication, security in optical fiber communication, 3D surface topography using optical systems, and optical temperature sensors. Dr. Yuksel is also the Erasmus/Exchange coordinator within the Electrical Engineering department as well as the Chairman of the Sudent Exchange and Placement Commission. Dr. Yuksel has published numerous Journal and conference papers. She is a member in professional engineering societies like IEEE, OSA, SPIE, and SWE. From 2012 to 2019, she was in the organizing committee for the SPIE Optics & Photonics conference held annually in San Diego, California.