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Newcomer of the Year Award! [18-November-2025]
Dr Cetinkaya received the Newcomer of the Year award at the North East Recycling Forum (NERF) Awards 2025.
The Panel noted:
"The judges were particularly impressed by Oktay's ability to see waste differently and to bring a new audience into the conversation around reuse and sustainability. His project (Waste-Not!) stood out for its innovation, its scalability, and its exciting potential to grow into something that could transform how we engage communities with circular-economy principles."
Details: https://www.nerf.org.uk/post/circular-gains-in-action-reflections-from-the-nerf-annual-conference-awards-2025
Editorial Board Appointment [02-November-2025]
Dr Cetinkaya has been appointed to the Editorial Board of IEEE Sensors Letters as an Associate Editor. IEEE Sensors Letters is a leading rapid-publication journal that disseminates high-impact advances across all areas of sensors and sensing technologies.
Details: https://ieee-sensorsletters.org/editorial-board/
CrossLinks Launched at St Cross College, Oxford! [17-October-2025]
The CrossLinks programme has been officially launched at St Cross College, University of Oxford, as part of the College’s 60th Anniversary Campaign. Conceived by Dr Oktay Cetinkaya and Dr Ricardo Márquez Gómez, the initiative aims to transform spontaneous cross-disciplinary discussions among Oxford researchers into structured collaborations with tangible outcomes.
Developed through extensive planning and coordination, CrossLinks strives for a lasting framework to foster collaborative research within the St Cross community and strengthen the College’s culture of interdisciplinary engagement.
Details: https://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/crosslinks
New preprint [14-October-2025]
Our collaborative paper 'A Toolkit for Sustainable Educational Environment in the Modern AI Era: Guidelines for Mitigating the Misuse of GenAI in Assessments' has been released on TechRxiv.
To access the full text, please follow this link.
Silver Prize at IEEE FENDT 2025! [23-June-2025]
Dr Yang received the Silver Prize for their paper titled "Remote Field Eddy Current and Swept Frequency Eddy Current Techniques for Lamppost Corrosion Detection" at the IEEE 2025 Far East Conference on Nondestructive Testing (FENDT), held from 23 to 26 June 2025 in Wuhan, China.
This recognition highlights the promise of our I-PEACE project and reinforces our commitment to advancing research in electromagnetic-based nondestructive testing and evaluation (NDT&E).
Many congratulations, Jingyuan!
Details: Dr Yang's LinkedIn post.
Workshop Attendance [01-May-2025]
Dr Cetinkaya will be attending The Future of Semiconductors workshop in Zürich on 23 May 2025, organised by the EPSRC eFutures Network+.
This one-day event will bring together leading researchers from across the UK and Europe to explore the evolving landscape of semiconductor technologies and to spark new cross-disciplinary collaborations.
Details: https://efutures2.com/event/the-future-of-semiconductors-zurich-workshop/
Paper Accepted! [07-April-2025]
Our collaborative paper 'Information-theoretic Lifetime Maximization for IoBNT-enabled Sensing' has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications.
Best Talk Award at CONNECTS-UK European Researchers Event! [31-March-2025]
Dr Cetinkaya received the Best Talk Award at the 2nd European Researchers in the UK event, organised by CONNECTS-UK and hosted at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. His winning presentation introduced "Waste-Not!", his charity-funded project aimed at reducing household food waste through networked sensor innovation and community sharing. The award recognised the project's real-world impact and Dr Cetinkaya's contribution to research with strong societal relevance. The event brought together researchers from across the UK and Europe, providing a valuable platform for future scientific collaboration.
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