Orhan Arıkan, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, has been elected as a principal member of the Science Academy.
Prof. Orhan Arıkan received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, in 1986. Following his graduation as the salutatorian, he started his graduate studies in Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Focus of his graduate research was on radar signal processing. During his graduate studies he was awarded with the Schlumberger Research Fellowship. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1988 and 1990, respectively.
Following his graduate studies, Prof. Arıkan has worked for three years as a Research Scientist at Schlumberger-Doll Research Center, Ridgefield, CT. In1993, he joined Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Bilkent University. His research interests are in the areas of semantic signal processing, statistical signal processing and remote sensing. He served as the chairman of the department in 2011-2019. Currently, Prof. Arıkan is the Dean of Engineering Faculty at Bilkent University.
In 1998, Prof. Arıkan received the Distinguished Teaching Award of Bilkent University. In 2002, he received the Young Investigator Award in Engineering from Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Foundation. He has served as the Chairman of IEEE Signal Processing Society, Turkey Section in 1995-1996 and served as the President of IEEE Turkey Section in 2000-2001.
Established in İstanbul in 2011, the Science Academy aims to uphold the principles of merit, freedom, and integrity for scientific excellence in Turkey. It continues its activities with 223 principal members, including 14 from Bilkent University, along with 42 honorary members.