Meryem Yücel

Meryem Yücel is a Research Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering (COE). Dr. Yucel is an expert in fNIRS and translating it to clinical applications. She has published extensively in the methodological approaches of fNIRS signal processing and data analytic methods.

Prior to her position at BU, Yücel was an Assistant in Biomedical Engineering at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School, Radiology. Her primary research interest is to understand how the brain works in health and disease. Her ultimate academic goal is to understand how thoughts affect our reality, particularly our health. Throughout her career, she has gained expertise in mathematical modeling of biological systems and functional brain imaging (fNIRS, fMRI, EEG). Currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at BU, her primary focus is on functional Near-InfraRed Spectroscopy method and translating it to clinical applications and disseminating its use in basic neuroscience research.