BiLCEM Researcher Receives Prestigious Awards

Özgür Ergül, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE), has received two prestigious awards in the area of electromagnetics. The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society awarded one of five Ph.D. fellowships given to promising students world wide pursuing a career in electromagnetics; and he has received the 2007 Leopold B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics - presented by Doğus University and the Leopold B. Felsen Fund.

Currently, Özgür conducts research studies at BiLCEM - a center of excellence, where real-life electromagnetics problems are solved by using cutting-edge computing technologies. His articles have been published in more than 15 journals and he has produced 65 conference papers in the past 6 years. At the start of 2007, under the supervision of Prof. Gürel, Özgür and his colleagues broke several world records by solving extremely large integral-equation problems. The results of this major achievement have been presented at international conferences and published in top-rated scientific journals.

Mr. Ergül stated that, "This is a great chance for Bilkent students. BiLCEM welcomes all undergraduate and graduate students who would like to participate in exciting projects on parallel computing, programming, and computational electromagnetics."

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