Ömer Oralkan

Biography

Dr. Oralkan joined the faculty at the North Carolina State University in January 2012. His research interests are at the interface of electrical engineering and the life sciences, particularly on using integrated circuits and underlying technologies to implement medical devices and supporting systems for diagnostics and therapy. More specifically, his current research focuses on developing devices and systems for ultrasound imaging, photoacoustic imaging, image-guided therapy, biological and chemical sensing, and ultrasound neural stimulation.

Prior to joining NC State, he was a Research Associateiate (2004-2007) and then a Senior Research Associateiate (2007-2011) in the E. L. Ginzton Laboratory at Stanford University, where he worked on capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers. He also served as an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University, CA (2009-2011).

Education

• Ph.D. 2004
  Electrical Engineering
  Stanford University
• Master's 1997
  Electrical Engineering
  Clemson University
• Bachelor's 1995
  Electrical Engineering
  Bilkent University, Turkey

Awards & Honors

Recent Publications

• A Row-Column (RC) Addressed 2-D Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (CMUT) Array on a Glass Substrate (2021)
• Electronic nose system based on a functionalized capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) array for selective detection of plant volatiles (2021)
• Entrainment of cerebellar Purkinje cell spiking activity using pulsed ultrasound stimulation (2021)
• An Improved CMUT Structure Enabling Release and Collapse of the Plate in the Same Tx/Rx Cycle for Dual-Frequency Acoustic Angiography (2020)
• Editors' Choice-Critical Review-A Critical Review of Solid State Gas Sensors (2020)
• Fabrication of 2D Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (CMUT) Arrays on Insulating Substrates With Through-Wafer Interconnects Using Sacrificial Release Process (2020)
• Guest Editorial Special Issue on Selected Papers From the IEEE Sensors Conference 2018 (2020)
• A Low-Power Wireless Multichannel Gas Sensing System Based on a Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (CMUT) Array (2019)
• An FPGA-Based Backend System for Intravascular Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging (2019)
• A CMUT - Based Electronic Nose for Real- Time Monitoring of Volatiles Emitted by Plants: Preliminary Results (2018)