Zeynep Çelik-Butler (S’84–M’87–SM’98) Zeynep Çelik-Butler is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of Nanotechnology Research and Teaching Facility at the University of Texas at Arlington. She received dual B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and physics from Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1982. She received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 1984 and 1987, respectively, from the University of Rochester. She was an IBM Pre-doctoral Fellow from 1983 to 1984, and an Eastman Kodak Pre-doctoral Fellow from 1985 to 1987. She joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University in 1987 as an Assistant Professor; was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 1993. Dr. Çelik-Butler was the holder of J. Lindsay Embrey Trustee Assistant Professorship from 1990 to 1993. She served as the Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies and Research from 1996 to 1999. She moved to University of Texas at Arlington in 2002.
She served in various technical committees including 1988, 1989 IEEE-IEDM's and Annual Symposia on Electronic Materials, Processing and Characterization (1989 - 1992) and International Conference on Noise in Physical Systems and 1/f Fluctuations (1993, 1999, 2001). She was the General Chair of TEXMEMS II Workshop. She was the co-Chairman for the SPIE Conf. on Noise in Devices and Circuits in the Symp. on Fluctuation and Noise (FaN'2003) and the symposium co-chair for the same symposium in 2005 (FaN’2005). She served as an editor for Fluctuation and Noise Letters and is currently an editor for the Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics.
Prof. Çelik-Butler has received several awards including the IEEE-Dallas Section Electron Devices Society Outstanding Service Awards (1995, 1997), IEEE - Electron Devices Society, Service Recognition Award (1995), Outstanding Electrical Engineering Graduate Faculty Awards (1996, 1997, 2001), SMU- Sigma Xi Research Award (1997) and UTA Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2006). Her research interests include microelectromechanical systems, infrared detectors, noise in semiconductor and superconductor devices, and biomedical microsystems. She has four patents, five book chapters, and over 140 journal and conference publications in these fields. Dr. Çelik -Butler’s research has been supported by the NSF, SRC, NASA, TEHCB, Motorola, Legerity, ST-Microelectronics, Texas Instruments, Raytheon and ARO.
Dr. Çelik-Butler is a senior member of IEEE, member of Eta Kappa Nu, and the American Physical Society. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE-Electron Devices Society.