{"id":10025,"date":"2026-01-27T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=10025"},"modified":"2026-01-28T10:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:07:55","slug":"bilkent-alumnus-joins-sigma-xi-as-full-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=10025","title":{"rendered":"Bilkent\u00a0Alumnus\u00a0 Joins\u00a0Sigma Xi as Full Member\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bilkent&nbsp;alumnus&nbsp;Assoc. Prof.&nbsp;Kamil&nbsp;Boratay&nbsp;Al\u0131c\u0131&nbsp;has been elected a full member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society, in recognition of his contributions to optics and photonics research.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Founded at Cornell University in 1886, Sigma Xi is one of the world\u2019s most prestigious research honor societies, whose membership is granted by nomination only&nbsp;on the basis of&nbsp;distinguished achievements in scientific research.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr.&nbsp;Al\u0131c\u0131&nbsp;works at the Systems Engineering Directorate at ASELSAN. He received his BSc and PhD degrees from the Department of Physics in 2004 and 2010, respectively. He then worked as a research associate at NANOTAM, the University of Arkansas, and UT Austin. Before joining ASELSAN, he served as a chief scientist at T\u00dcB\u0130TAK UZAY. He also received a T\u00dcBA-GEB\u0130P award in 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bilkent&nbsp;alumnus&nbsp;Assoc. Prof.&nbsp;Kamil&nbsp;Boratay&nbsp;Al\u0131c\u0131&nbsp;has been elected a full member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society, in recognition of his contributions to optics and photonics research.&nbsp;&nbsp; Founded at Cornell University in 1886, Sigma Xi is one of the world\u2019s most prestigious research honor societies, whose membership is granted by nomination only&nbsp;on<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=10025\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,208,193],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10026,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions\/10026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}