Sirin Tekinay

Biography

Dr. Tekinay serves as the NSF Point of Contact for G7, G20, and EU multilaterals, in addition to the following European countries: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain. She serves on the NSF Public Access and Open Science Leadership Team. She is NSF’s Representative to the NSTC’s Semiconductor and Microelectronics Leadership International Working Group.This is the second time Dr Tekinay is serving the US NSF. From 2005 to 2008, she was a rotating Program Director, where she served as the founding chair of a multidisciplinary program called “Cyber Enabled Discovery and Innovation,” in addition to managing her home program in CISE/CCF. She was tenured faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

She spent a decade in Istanbul, 2009-2019, where she held offices of academic administration as a Dean of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Vice President for Research and Development, and University President.2019-2021, she was the Dean of Engineering in American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Professor Sirin Tekinay is a Fellow of the European Society for Engineering Education, SEFI.

She holds the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from George Mason University, Virginia, and M.S. and B.S. degrees in Electrical-Electronics Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul. Prof. Tekinay has the inventor’s signature on nine patents of Bell Laboratories, NORTEL, and NJIT. She has authored numerous publications, and she has graduated six doctoral students.