Ulkuhan Guler

Ulkuhan Guler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), affiliated with the College of Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. She holds the Dean’s Excellence Professorship and the Joseph Samuel Satin Distinguished Fellowship in ECE. Her research focuses on analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits, energy harvesting, and wireless power systems for healthcare and IoT applications. She leads the Integrated Circuits and Systems Lab at WPI, developing wearable sensors for noninvasive monitoring of oxygen and carbon dioxide levels. Guler earned her BS from Istanbul Technical University (1999), MS from The University of Tokyo (2003), PhD from Bogazici University (2014), and completed a postdoc at Georgia Tech (2018).

Her work emphasizes miniaturized biomedical devices, including implantables and wearables, with applications in smart healthcare. Key research areas include luminescence-based oxygen sensing, transcutaneous gas monitoring, and secure wireless power transfer. Awards include recognition for her contributions to biomedical circuits and systems.

Notable projects include a first-of-its-kind wearable oxygen sensor addressing racial bias in infant care and a transcutaneous CO₂ monitor using lifetime-based referencing. She collaborates on interdisciplinary teams to advance technologies like optical wireless power systems and hyperdimensional computing for acute mountain sickness detection.