Rate My Professor Zeynep Celik

Zeynep Celik is a Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington and Director of the Nanotechnology Research and Teaching Facility. She received dual B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and physics from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1982, an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester in 1984, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the same institution in 1987. As a graduate student, she was an IBM Pre-doctoral Fellow (1983-1984) and an Eastman Kodak Pre-doctoral Fellow (1985-1987). Her professional career started in 1987 as Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University, where she was promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 1993 and held the J. Lindsay Embrey Trustee Assistant Professorship (1990-1993). She also served as Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies and Research (1996-1999). In 2002, she joined UTA as Professor. She has organized numerous conferences, serving as General Chair of TEXMEMS II, co-Chair of SPIE FaN conferences (2003,2005), and participated in IEEE-IEDM (1988-1989) and other symposia. She edited Fluctuation and Noise Letters (1999-2005), serves on editorial boards including IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, and was appointed Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Sensors Journal in 2024.

Dr. Celik's research interests encompass microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), multi-functional reconfigurable sensors, noise, and reliability in nanoelectronic devices. Notable contributions include development of IR microbolometer arrays on flexible substrates, multifunctional conformal sensor arrays ("Smart Skin") for aerospace, defense, and medical applications, and physics-based 1/f noise models for high-k gate MOSFETs. She holds four awarded patents and three pending, has authored six book chapters, and published over 170 papers in journals and conferences. Key publications include "Smart Skin: Multifunctional Sensor Arrays on Flexible Substrates" (Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2007), "A device-level vacuum-packaging scheme for microbolometers on rigid and flexible substrates" (IEEE Sensors Journal, 2007), and "Physics-Based 1/f Noise Model for MOSFETs with Nitrided High-κ Gate Dielectrics" (Solid-State Electronics, 2008). Her research has been supported by NSF, NASA, AFOSR, ARO, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, SRC, and industry sponsors such as Texas Instruments, Freescale Semiconductor, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. Awards include the University of Texas at Arlington Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2006), IEEE-Dallas Section Electron Devices Society Outstanding Service Awards (1995, 1997), IEEE Electron Devices Society Service Recognition Awards (1995, 2009), IEEE Electron Devices Society Distinguished Lecturer Appreciation Award (2006), Outstanding Electrical Engineering Graduate Faculty Awards (1996, 1997, 2001), and SMU-Sigma Xi Research Award (1997).