Levent Degertekin

Levent Degertekin received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University with research in ultrasonic sensors for semiconductor manufacturing. He currently is a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology at the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and holds the G.W. Woodruff Chair in Mechanical Systems.

Dr. Degertekin’s research interests are in integrated microsystems for medical ultrasound imaging such as CMUT based intravascular and intracardiac ultrasound systems, micromachined ultrasonic and opto-acoustic devices, and bioanalytical instrumentation. He has authored over 60 U.S. patents and over 140 journal publications in these research areas. Technologies developed in his lab have been transferred to startup companies in the areas of inertial sensors, medical ultrasound imaging and cell transfection. He is a co-founder and serves on the technical advisory boards of several of these companies.