Dr Oktay Cetinkaya (Senior Member, IEEE) is a Lecturer in Sensor Systems at Newcastle University. Before joining Newcastle, he was a Senior Research Associate and PETRAS Synthesis Fellow at the University of Oxford and held postdoctoral positions at the Universities of Sheffield and Southampton. He received his PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Koç University and graduated with first-class honours in both Electrical Engineering and Electronics and Communication Engineering (double major) from Yildiz Technical University, Turkey. 

Dr Cetinkaya's research advances the next generation of intelligent sensor systems that sense, learn, and communicate autonomously, powered by harvested energy and embedded intelligence to transform how we monitor, manage, and sustain the physical world.