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Dr.
F. Ömer Ilday received the B.S. degree in theoretical
physics from Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1998. He took
his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from
Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY, USA, in 2003.
After
taking his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoc in Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) from 2003 to 2005. His studies
at MIT were supported by an RLE Fellowship during the first year. In 2005, he was named a Research Scientist at MIT. Dr.
Ilday invented the similariton laser during his graduate thesis work
and these lasers form the core of commercial products of at least two
companies in the USA. Dr. Ilday graduated valedictorian of the Physics
Department at Bogazici University. In 2004, he received the Findlay
Award from the Department of Applied Physics at Cornell University. In
2006, he received the Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the
Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA-GEBIP). He currently serves as
referee for Optics Letters, Journal of Optical
Society of
America B, Physical Review Letters, Physics Review E, IEEE Journal of
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Optics
Communications, Applied Physics B, Optics Express, as well as the
European Science Foundation (ESF) and TUBITAK. He is a member of the
Optical Society of America and Sigma Xi. Dr.
Ilday holds four US patents.
He has co-authored about 150 journal and conference papers. His contributions to the optics community include serving as a Topical Editor of Optics Letters, in addition to serving on the technical committee of numerous conferences. He
is currently Assistant Professor of Physics at Bilkent University.