About

Volkan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering with a Ph.D. subject minor in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He works in the Caltech High-Speed Integrated Circuits (CHIC) Lab advised by Prof. Ali Hajimiri. His research focuses on large-scale photonic-electronic integrated circuits with applications in sensing, communications, machine learning, and quantum information technologies.

He holds an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Caltech and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). During his tenure at Georgia Tech, he conducted research in the Georgia Tech LF Radio Lab (Prof. Morris Cohen), GEMS Lab (Prof. Hua Wang), Propagation Lab (Prof. Greg Durgin), and Plasma and Dielectrics Lab (Prof. Lukas Graber). He participated in the ECE Opportunity Research Scholars (ORS) program for three years and completed the UROP Research Option track by publishing his undergraduate thesis.

He was a recipient of 15 honors and awards, among which are the Carver Mead New Adventures Fund, R. David Middlebrook Fellowship, Tau Beta Pi Fellowship, Roger P. Webb ECE Undergraduate Research Award, IEEE MTT-S Undergraduate/Pre-Graduate Scholarship, European Union Contest for Young Scientists CERN Special Donated Prize, and First Prize in Physics in the Turkish National Research Projects Contest. He has been a reviewer for Nature, Optica, and various IEEE journals. He is a member of the IEEE, APS, Optica, SPIE, IEEE-HKN, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi.

• Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, 2026 (Expected).
• M.S. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, 2022.
• B.S. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, 2020.