Assoc. Prof. Dr. Adem POLAT is currently a Visiting Professor and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Shin Lab, the Division of Engineering in Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Adem POLAT has been granted by TUBITAK 2219-International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program in 2023. Dr. POLAT received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering, at Istanbul Technical University, in 2002. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Satellite Communications and Remote Sensing Program at Istanbul Technical University in 2012 and 2018, respectively. He also received a B.Soc.Sc. degree in the Department of Philosophy at Anadolu University, in 2015. He was with the Division of Engineering in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology as a fellowship of TUBITAK 2214-A program from 2016 to 2017 as well.

Dr. POLAT is an Assoc. Prof. Dr. in the Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (COMU). He is also the founder of OpTomo Medical Technologies Corp. Company in Çanakkale Technology Development Zone Inc. and the founder and coordinator of Biomedical-Electronics Deep Technology Laboratory in COMU. His company and research team design, develop, and produce high-technology and deep-technology medical devices and products (e.g. OpTomo: Robotic optical tomography device that images breast tumors in 3D with angular optical scanning).

Dr. Adem POLAT has a patent application in the field of 3D imaging systems and his research focuses on 3D image reconstruction methodologies for digital breast tomosynthesis and CT, microscale biological imaging, and optical 3D cross-sectional imaging applications. His patent was honored with the BEST ACADEMIC INVENTION AWARD by ISIF'23 8th Istanbul International Invention Fair, organized by the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office in cooperation with the International Federation of Inventors' Union, the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the European Patent Office. His research and projects in biomedical imaging have been supported by TUSEB, TUBITAK, and BAP. He has 11 SCIE-indexed articles and more than a total of 20 papers. One of his articles was featured on the outside front cover of the Lab-on-a-Chip journal and recognized as one of the HOT papers of 2019 in the journal.