Academics

Umur Gökmen

Master’s student
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Anticipated Graduation: May 2020
umur@umich.edu

Academic Interests

• Optics and Photonics

For Umur, being able to see the processes that arise from complex physical processes and directly interacting with them is very fun. He believes that optics has a fundamental part in our lives in many areas, and that part will get even bigger with the growing needs of human society, ranging from medical applications to space applications.

Education

• BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey)

Clubs/Organizations

• The Optics Society at the University of Michigan
• ECE Graduate Student Council

Hobbies

• Music
• Video games
• Reading
• Tennis

Umur Says

“One of my favorite parts about U-M is having plenty of opportunities to pursue any kind of extracurricular interest you might have.”