Mehmet C. Öztürk received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1980, and his M.S. degree also in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA, in 1983. He continued his graduate studies at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, under Prof. Jimmie J. Wortman receiving his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1988.  After graduation, he joined the faculty in his department, where he is currently serving as a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Prof. Öztürk’s research interests center around semiconductors and advanced materials and processes for new devices.  His early work focused on novel processes for advanced CMOS integrated circuits with emphasis on applications of Group IV epitaxy (Si, Si_1-xGe_x and Si_1-xC_x) in channel and source/drain engineering and self-aligned silicide/germanosilicide contacts to ultra-shallow source/drain junctions.  He was first to propose the use selective Si_1-xGe_x in nanoscale CMOS source/drain engineering and first to demonstrate source/drain junctions with in-situ doped recessed Si_1-xGe_x, which later became a standard process in advanced CMOS. His current research interests center around flexible electronics with emphasis on flexible thermoelectric devices that harvest body heat to create self-powered wearables.  Prof. Ozturk was named a fellow of IEEE in 2009 for his contributions to Group IV epitaxy in CMOS integrated circuits.

In 2000, Prof. Ozturk has led the departmental effort that resulted in the creation of “Introduction to Signals, Circuits and Systems” as the flagship course of a new curriculum at NC State.