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Selim Unlu Boston University

Selim Unlu Boston University Prof. M. Selim Ünlü was born in Sinop, Turkey, in 1964. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1986, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1988 and 1992, respectively. His dissertation topic dealt with resonant cavity enhanced (RCE) photodetectors and optoelectronic switches. From 1984 to 1986, he was a part-time research engineer with Military Electronics, Inc., Ankara, Turkey, where he worked on VHF communication systems. In 1992, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, as an assistant professor, and he has been and Associate Professor since 1998. From January to July 2000, he worked as a visiting professor at University of Ulm, Germany. His current research interests include design, fabrication, characterization, and modeling of semiconductor optoelectronic devices, especially photodetectors, near field and picosecond spectroscopy, semiconductor material characterization, thermal imaging, integrated bio-sensors, and hyperpolarized noble gas MRI. During 1994-1995, Dr. Ünlü served as the Chair of IEEE Laser and Electro-Optics Society, Boston Chapter, winning the LEOS Chapter-of-the-Year Award. He served as the vice president of SPIE New England Chapter in 1998-1999. He was awarded National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award in 1993, United Nations TOKTEN award in 1995 and 1996, and both the National Science Foundation CAREER and Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Awards in 1996. Dr. Ünlü is a recognized expert on photodetectors. He has presented many invited lectures and participated in international conference organizations. Dr. Ünlü has authored and co-authored more than 100 technical articles and several book chapters and magazine articles; edited one book; holds one US patent; and has several patents pending. He is currently serving as the chair of the IEEE/LEOS technical subcommittee on photodetectors and imaging.