Awards & Fellowships
Research Awards
2019 Runner-up Best Poster, IEEE BHI [paper]
2018 Runner-up Best Paper, IEEE BSN [paper]
2018 Best Paper Finalist, IEEE EMBC Student Paper Competition [paper]
2017 Best Poster, NextFlex Flexible Hybrid Electronics Workshop
Fellowships
2021 NSF ASEE Engineering Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship ($156k)
2021 NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Award (T32)
2020-21 National Library of Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship, Columbia University (declined)
2015 Teaching Assistant Training and Development Fellowship, University of Maryland
2014-15 Clark School of Engineering Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, University of Maryland
Professional Awards
2021 Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
2019 NextProf Future Faculty Workshop Award [news]
2019 iREDEFINE Workshop Award, Georgia Tech
2018 Rising Stars in EECS, MIT [GT news 1] [GT news 2] [MIT news] [brochure]
2018 iREDEFINE ECE Professional Development Award, NSF
Conference Travel Awards
2018 IEEE BSN, BHI, EMBC Travel Awards
2016 Molecular Med Tri-Conference, Personal Diagnostics Travel Award
Media Coverage & Recognition
JUL, 2024 İlaçsız Olarak Travmatik Olaylardan İyileşebilmek Mümkün mü?, Kesisen Yollar Dernegi
AUG, 2023 A partial solution for migraines and PTSD? This approach offers hope, National Geographic
FEB, 2023 Stress levels are up in 2023 and wearable devices may be the solution, Jeannine Mancini, Benzinga
MAR, 2022 Research from Georgia Tech and Emory University Leads to FDA Breakthrough Designation for New PTSD Treatment, Jerry Grillo, Georgia Tech
JAN, 2022 How Does Vagus Nerve Stimulation Reduce PTSD Symptoms?, Christopher Bergland, Psychology Today
JAN, 2022 Emory-Georgia Tech project studying PTSD receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation, Jennifer Johnson McEwen
MAR, 2021 Güçlü kadınlar anlatıyor, Selin I. Aslantepe, Ajans Bizim [Turkish]
DEC, 2020 Q & A: Fall 2020 ECE Graduates, Ashlee Gardner, Georgia Tech
MAY, 2020 COVID-19 Sonrasi Saglik Teknolojileri (Health Tech Post-COVID-19), Bahcesehir University Faculty of Medicine Conference Series, attended as guest, streamed live [Turkish]
DEC, 2019 ECEDHA and iREDEFINE: Bringing Together Academia and Industry, Leslie Prives, IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine, 13(2): 28-33
AUG, 2019 Gurel Chosen for NextProf Nexus Workshop, Jackie Nemeth, Georgia Tech
DEC, 2018 Three ECE Students Become Rising Stars in Academia, Ashlee Gardner, Georgia Tech
JUN, 2018 Gurel Invited to Rising Stars Workshop, Takes Part in iREDEFINE, Jackie Nemeth, Georgia Tech
JUN, 2018 Toward Wearable Sensing Enabled Closed-Loop Non-invasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation, MIT EECS
MAR, 2018 Gurel Receives Paper Prize at IEEE BSN Conference, Jackie Nemeth, Georgia Tech
DEC, 2017 Georgia Tech and NextFlex Team-Up to Make the Internet-of-Things More Flexible & Power Efficient, Christa Ernst, GT Research Horizons