Associate Professor,

Department of Electrical Engineering
Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering

Director,

Biomedical Science and Nanotechnology Laboratory

Training:

Ph.D., Electrical & Computer Engineering UC San Diego (2001)
Process Dev. Eng., Applied Materials Inc., Santa Clara (95-97)
Process Engineer, Analog Devices Inc., Santa Clara, CA (94-95)
M.S., Materials Science and Eng., Stanford University, CA (1994)
M.S., Materials Science and Eng.,Univ.of Illinois-Urbana (1990)
B.S., Metallurgical Eng., Middle East Tech. Univ., Ankara (1988)

Selected Awards and Honors:

1.      Army's Young Investigator Award (2006)

2.      Distinguished Engineering Educator of the Year Award by the National Engineers' Council (2006)

3.       Regents Faculty of Excellence Award (2006)

4.       Nationwide Award of "2005 Emerging Scholar" by American Association of University Women

5.       Regents Faculty Excellence Award (2004)

6.      "Frontier Research" by the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology edited by Dr. David Awschalom (2004)

7.      Invited Speaker at the "National Engineers Week" Feb. (2004)

8.      Visionary Science Award: BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology Conference (2003)

9.      By invitation a US-team member in US-Japan Nanotechnology in Advanced Therapy and Diagnosis Symposium, Yokohama Japan (2003)

10.  "Achievement in Technical Ingenuity" Award : Inland Empire Economic Partnership (2003)

11.  "Research Leadership Recognition Award" from CORE21 (2003)

12.  Travel Award from Association for Lab Automation (2003)

13.   Regents Faculty Excellence Award, Riverside (2002)

14.  Academic Senate Faculty Excellence Award, Riverside (2002)

15.  Invited Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany (2002)

16.   Best Research Poster in Bioengineering: Jacobs School of Engineering, San Diego (2002)

17.  Grand Research Poster Award: Jacobs School of Engineering, San Diego (2002)

18.  Graduate Student Award: Jacobs School of Engineering , San Diego (2001)

19.  Jacobs School of Engineering Best Poster Award, San Diego (2001)

20.   Graduate Student Award: Bio Medical Engineering Society, Seattle, WA (2000)

21.  Biomaterials Session Graduate Student Novel Research Award: Materials
Research Society, Boston (2000)

22.  Graduate Student Silver Award: Materials Research Society, Boston (Fall 1999)

23.  DARPA's HOTC and CHIPS centers Fellow, San Diego, (1999-2001)

24.  Jacobs School of Engineering Best Poster Award, San Diego, (1998)

25.  University of California Regents Fellow, San Diego, (1997- 1999)

26.  Stanford University Fellow through Federal Work-Study, Stanford, (1993-94)

Biography:

Dr. Mihri Ozkan is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at UC-Riverside with a research focus in nanotechnology and its applications in biology and engineering. Dr. Ozkan is also an active member of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering in UC-Riverside. She received her Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC-San Diego and her M.S. degree in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. She has over four years of industrial experience including at Applied Materials, Analog Devices and at IBM Almaden Research Center. Her highly interdisciplinary background including materials science, electrical engineering and bioengineering training supports well her recent multidisciplinary research activities with development of new nanofabrication methods for future electronics and for hybrid organic-inorganic solar devices, and investigations of smart nanoparticles for cancer therapeutics. Dr. Ozkan is the recipient of number of awards including Army’s Young Investigator Award (2006), Distinguished Engineering Educator of the Year Award by the National Engineers’ Council (2006), Regents Faculty Excellence Award (2006, 2004, 2002), Emerging Scholar Award by the American Association of University Women (2005), Invited participant to the National Academy’s Keck Future Initiatives Conference (2005), Visionary Science Award by the BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology Conference (2003), and Achievement in Technical Ingenuity Award by the Inland Empire Economic Partnership (2003). She is an active board member and treasurer in the International Society for BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology. Her editorial activities include the Journal of Sensors and Actuators B and the Journal of Biomedical Microdevices. She is the principal editor of the book entitled “Micro-Nano Technologies for Genomics and Proteomics” by Springer (2007). She has more than ninety publications in journal paper, conference proceedings and book chapter format. She also holds more than twenty five patent disclosures and about eight US-patents.

RESEARCH INTEREST:

Dr. Mihri Ozkan's research interests include hybrid organic/inorganic systems where recent developments in nanotechnology are applied towards the fabrication of new age electronics, photovoltaics, biosensors and also towards cancer diagnosis and therapeutics. Dr. Mihri Ozkan is an advocate of "interdisciplinary" education, and she puts extra emphasis on multi-disciplinary training of her students in the Biomedical Science and Nanotechnology laboratory.