A. Fatih Sarioglu
Principal Investigator
A. Fatih Sarioglu received the B.Sc. degree from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey in 2003, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 2005 and 2010, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering.
Dr. Sarioglu worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering at Stanford University from 2010 to 2012. From 2012-2014, he was a research fellow at the Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. In October 2014, he joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology as an assistant professor.
Dr. Sarioglu’s research interests are at the interface of nano-/micro-engineering and biomedicine. He is particularly interested in developing N/MEMS-based technologies for biomedical applications.
Email: sarioglu@ece.gatech.edu
Postdoctoral Scholars
Tevhide Ozkaya Ahmadov
Tevhide Ozkaya Ahmadov received the Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from University of Cincinnati in 2016. Her Ph.D. research mainly focused on nanomaterial, sensing and photodynamic therapy. Currently, she is working as a postdoctoral research fellow in Biomedical Microsystems Laboratory at Georgia Tech School of Electric and Computer Engineering. Her research interests are developing sensors for isolation of circulating tumor cells and nanomaterial-based microfluidic systems with applications in point-of-care diagnostics and therapeutics.
Research Staff
Jacquelyn A. Cook
Jacquelyn Cook received her B.S. degree in Biological Science from Georgia State University in August 2022. Jacquelyn is currently a research lab technician for Dr. Sarioglu and the members of his lab. Her research interests include Cancer Biology and Molecular Genetics. Besides her research, she enjoys hiking with her dog.
Graduate Students
A K M Arifuzzman
A K M Arifuzzman received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), Bangladesh in 2011. He received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), in 2016 with a focus on biosensor interface design and analog chip design. He was a lecturer of Electrical Engineering department at American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), Bangladesh from 2011 to 2013.
Arif is currently a Ph.D. Student in the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include BioMEMS, Bio-electronics, and Microfluidics. Besides his research, he likes traveling, music, trekking, and camping.
Norh Asmare
Norh received his B.S.E in Electrical Engineering from Suffolk University in 2014. After graduation, he worked at a Boston-based wearable fitness device startup named WHOOP as a Digital Signal Processing / Firmware Engineer.
Norh is currently in the Ph.D. program at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is very interested in working in the intersection between electrical devices + systems and biological environments; ranging from micro/nano device design to writing software that runs on said devices.
Outside of school, Norh enjoys live music, food festivals, scenic spots and the old Kanye.
Dohwan Lee
Dohwan Lee received his B.E. degree in Electronic Engineering from Kwangwoon University in 2014. He received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2016, with a focus on developing microdevice for pathogen detection. Before he joined our group, he worked as a researcher in Kwangwoon University and he researched on enhanced Zika virus diagnosis.
Dohwan is currently a Ph.D. student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He has great interest in pathogen and cancer diagnostic microdevice that incorporate MEMS technology and nucleic-acid engineering. Beside his research, he likes to play soccer.
Can Firat Usanmaz
Can Usanmaz received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with a minor in Physics from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey in 2018. During his undergraduate research, he was working on the synthesis and characterization of photonic crystals.
Can is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include Bio-MEMS, bioelectronics and biomedical materials for portable diagnostic tools. Besides his research, Can enjoys playing drums and discovering new music.
Jungmin Ha
Jungmin received her BS in Mechanical Engineering from Hanyang University in Korea. She also did an MS in Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University working on microfluidics. She joined the Mechanical Engineering graduate program in August 2019.
Research: Circulating Tumor Cells
Fun Fact: Jungmin likes hiking and jogging.
Mustafa Sak
Mustafa Sak received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University and Bilkent University in 2017 and 2019, respectively. During his M.S. studies, he has focused on problems related to optical gain and lasing of colloidal semiconductor quantum wells.
Currently, Mustafa is pursuing his Ph.D. degree in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include optical biosensors, nanophotonics and plasmonics. Besides his research, he likes history, house music and coffee.
Aref Valipour
Aref received his B.S. degree in Bioelectrical Engineering (ECE) from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 2022. During his undergraduate studies, he worked on microfluidics and microfabrication with biological applications. Aref is Currently a Ph.D. student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include Microfluidic-Electronic Device Integration, Microelectronics with Physiological Applications, and 3D Printing with Physiological Applications. You can reach him at [his first name] at gatech.edu.
Undergraduate Students
Enerelt Burentugs
Enerelt is an undergraduate student studying in Chemical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and doing research in Professor Sarioglu’s lab. Besides her research, she likes to swim and cook.
Nabid Farvez
Nabid Farvez is a current undergraduate student pursuing his B.S. in Computer Science at the Georgia Tech College of Computing with a focus in embedded devices and intelligence.
He is working as an undergraduate researcher at the Biomedical Microsystems Lab. His potential interests in future research include writing software for embedded devices for noninvasive health monitoring and detection.
Outside of school, Nabid enjoys playing badminton, surfing memes on Reddit, and reading books.
Jacob Owens
Jacob Owens is working on his B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute Of Technology and pursuing a minor in Technology and Management. He is currently doing research in the Sarioglu Lab. His interests are in viral research, cancer research, and bioelectronics. Outside of research, Jake enjoys playing basketball, listening to music, and traveling.
Administrative Staff
Anita M. Carter
Anita M. Carter is the Financial Administrator supporting Dr. Sarioglu and his team. She has over 25 years of accounting and financial experience in higher education, import/export logistics, import Customs clearance, and restaurant management. She has been with Georgia Tech since 2013. She is the mom to two incredible teenage boys, a sweet rabbit, and one needy Chihuahua puppy. She enjoys spending time with her boys, watching movies (mostly superhero movies), and taking vacations in the mountains.
Alumni
Ruxiu Liu – PhD, 2020
Chen Jin – MS, 2020
Chia-Heng (Jonathan) Chu – PhD, 2021
Ningquan Wang – PhD, 2021
Ozgun Civelekoglu – PhD, 2022
Mert Boya – PhD, 2022
