Dr. Onur Tigli is an innovative product oriented technologist with a focus on cutting-edge research, patented technology development, project and people management. He has 23 years experience at variety of positions in Academia, Government and Industry on Semiconductors, CMOS, MEMS, Nanotechnology, Mixed-Signal ASICs, SoCs, FPGAs, Sensors and Actuators for Communications, Computing, Healthcare, Automotive and Defense sectors. In these sectors, use cases for his technologies include energy harvesters, cancer diagnosis, biosensors, chemical sensors, neuroscience, implantable medical devices, personalized medicine, cryptography, cybersecurity, quantum computing, advanced manufacturing, autonomous systems, AI/ML hardware, IoT, and robotics
Dr. Tigli is currently a tenured Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a faculty member of Dr. John T. MacDonald Foundation Biomedical Nanotechnology Institute of University of Miami (BioNIUM). He also held a secondary appointment at the Department of Pathology, Miller School of Medicine. He received his M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in computer engineering from The George Washington University (GWU), Washington DC, in 2002 and 2008 respectively. During his graduate studies, Dr. Tigli worked for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Semiconductor Electronics Division, Naval Research Lab (NRL) Materials Science and Technology Division, and completed projects on areas of system-on-a-chip, ASIC/FPGA design, biochemical sensors, and micro/nano electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS). He completed his post-doc work at GWU with a special grant by the office of university research for his work on biosensors for cancer biomarker detection - a joint effort with GWU Medical School and School of Engineering and Applied Science. After completion of his post-doc studies he worked as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Washington State University (WSU) Vancouver where he led the development and accreditation of a brand new ECE department
Dr. Tigli is a member of IEEE as well as HKN (Eta Kappa Nu), EMBS (Engineering in Medicine and Biology) Societies and Sensors, Nanotechnology Councils. He served as a reviewer, SME, speaker, panelist on a variety of leading conferences, journals, as well as government, academic and industrial panels. Dr. Tigli is the recipient of numerous accolades including National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, Eliahu I. Jury Early Career Research Award, Provost's Research Award, Interdisciplinary Research Development Initiative (IRDI) Award, Phillip Amsterdam Excellence in Teaching Award
