Assoc. Prof. Sema Dumanlı has been appointed Associate Editor of the IEEE AP-S Digital Communications platform.

The Faculty of Engineering has presented Associate Professor Sema Dumanli Oktar with this year's Excellence in Teaching Award.

Kadircan Gödeneli has been awarded an IEEE AP-S Eugene F. Knott Memorial Pre-Doctoral Research Grant for research related to “Wearable Cavity Backed Slot Repeater Antenna with a Matching Medium” conducted at BOUNtenna.

Ömer Altan has received the "Yorgo Istefanopulos Best Senior Design Project Award" with his final year project titled "Post-operative Infection Detection". Ömer had been a valuable team member at BOUNtenna and contributed to a journal article and a conference paper with this work. O. F. Sezgen, O. Altan, A. Bilir, M. G. Durmaz, N. Haciosmanoglu, B. Camli, Z. C. C. Ozdil, A. E. Pusane, A. D. Yalcinkaya, U. O. S. Seker, T. Tugcu, S. Dumanli, "In-body Sensing in Application to Multiscale Communications," IEEE Communications Magazine, in IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 59, no. 5, pp. 62-67, May 2021, doi: 10.1109/MCOM.001.2000964. Kivanc Ararat, Omer Altan, Sanberk Serbest, Oguzhan Baser, Sema Dumanli, "A biodegradable Implant Antenna Detecting Post-Surgical Infection," IEEE European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, March 2020.

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society 2022 Donald G. Dudley Jr. Undergraduate Teaching Award “For excellence in promoting research in antennas and propagation among undergraduate students and great contributions to the guidance of early career researchers”.  Ödül konuşması

Ahmet Bilir has received the IEEE AP-S Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship (USRS) are introduced to promote the Society’s areas of interest (listed below) among undergraduate students worldwide to ignite their interest in pursuing graduate studies in these areas. Applications are solicited from undergraduate students in conjunction with a faculty supervisor or industry supervisor to conduct a 16-week research program during the year 2022. The award value is US$3,000. https://www.ieeeaps.org/education/education-research-travel-grants

2023 has started with awesome news. We are informed that Ahmet Bilir has been selected to receive the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Eugene F. Knott Memorial Pre-Doctoral Research Grant. Ahmet Bilir is an undergraduate researcher at BOUNtenna studying biodegradable implant antennas and sensors. We are proud to host brilliant young researchers at our lab and wish to encourage more. Note that this is the second F. Knott Grant received by BOUNtenna, Kadircan Gödeneli being the first. “The IEEE APS Eugene F. Knott Memorial Pre-Doctoral Research Grant is established to encourage students to pursue a career in the area of electromagnetic in electrical engineering or a related field at an accredited institution of higher learning. These grants are intended to support pre-doctoral students involved in research directed by a faculty member at their institution who is a member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. These grants are named in memory of IEEE Life Fellow, Eugene F. Knott, who was well known for his contributions to the theory, reduction, and measurement of radar cross section.”

Burak Ferhat Özcan has received the IEEE AP-S Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship (USRS) are introduced to promote the Society’s areas of interest (listed below) among undergraduate students worldwide to ignite their interest in pursuing graduate studies in these areas. Applications are solicited from undergraduate students in conjunction with a faculty supervisor or industry supervisor to conduct a 16-week research program during the year 2023. The award value is US$3,000. https://www.ieeeaps.org/education/education-research-travel-grants

We are happy to announce that we are now funded by NIST (The National Institute of Standards and Technology) to conduct a project on the “Design of a Subcutaneous Implant Antenna for Brain Computer Interface”! BOUNtenna has been conducting research in the area of implant communications for various applications. We are excited to extend the list of applications with this recent addition.

We are delighted to announce that our research proposal submitted to the British Council Research Environments Grants for the 2024-25 funding cycle has been approved. Our collaborative project, in partnership with University of Glasgow and Yeditepe University, will focus on the topic of "Wireless Plant Health Monitoring and Growth Estimation Utilizing Artificial Intelligence."

We are finishing 2023 with great news. Our work titled "3D-Engineered Muscle Tissue as a Wireless Sensor: AntennAlive" is published in the December issue of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine and is highlighted on the cover page. The article is based on Çağla Karabulut's MSc work. AntennAlive is a concept patented by Bogazici University that describes a wireless communication method for in-body sensing at a molecular level.

Team BOUNtenna (Anıl Tülü, Ada Yıldırım, Burak Ferhat Özcan, Mehmet Emre Korkmaz, and Ahmet Bilir) competed in the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Student Design Contest at the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and ITNC-USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting in Florence, Italy. The team secured the 3rd place out of 34 teams.