Utkan Demirci
Professor of Radiology and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering Director, Bio-Acoustic MEMS in Medicine (BAMM) Lab Stanford University School of Medicine
USA
Dr. Utkan Demirci, MS EE, MS&E, PhD (Stanford ’01,’05,’05; UofM’99, summa cum laude) is a tenured Professor of Radiology and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering, at Stanford University, where he leads the Bio-Acoustic MEMS in Medicine (BAMM) Lab. Before joining Stanford in 2014, he served as an Associate Professor at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Harvard Medical School and as a part of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) division.
He was a visiting fellow commoner at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK in 2024–25. Demirci focuses on developing translational technologies at the intersection of microfluidics, biosensing, photonics, and smart robotics to address clinical challenges, ranging from rare cell and extracellular vesicle sorting to point-of-care diagnostics. His inventions include FDA-approved microfluidic sperm sorting devices that have been used in >500,000 clinical cases across >1,000 IVF clinics worldwide.
He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles, 24 book chapters, and holds patents with successfully translated products founded around these technologies. Dr. Demirci is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and the Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research. He also serves as a board member and Chair of Industry Council of AIMBE.
