Assoc. Prof. Tolga Çukur of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and UMRAM has received an award from TÜSEB (the Health Institutes of Turkey). Named after Nobel laureate Aziz Sancar, the TÜSEB awards honor outstanding work by the country’s researchers in fields related to the health sciences.
Dr. Çukur is the recipient of a TÜSEB Aziz Sancar Incentive Award. These awards are given to a maximum of five recipients each year: scientists under the age of 40 who have proven their potential to contribute to science at an international level.
Dr. Çukur received this award for his contributions in the field of biomedical imaging.
His research topics include machine learning techniques for data acquisition and processing on next-generation computational imaging platforms, and radiological and neuroscientific applications of biomedical imaging.