Hulya Kirkici is a Turkish-American electrical engineer whose research interests span a wide range of topics including insulators for aerospace applications, pulsed power, the use of advanced materials in plasma switches and vacuum electronics, pulsed plasma, and beam shaping for lasers and lidar.
She is professor and chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of South Alabama.
She went to the Weber Research Institute of Polytechnic University in New York (now part of New York University) for doctoral study in electrical engineering; she completed her PhD in 1990 with the dissertation Electronic Energy Transfer Lasers.
[1][2] The IEEE gave Kirkici the Sol Schneider Award "for continuing technical and administrative leadership in the power modulator and high voltage communities" in 2010, and the William G. Dunbar Award "for continuing contribution to high-voltage and high frequency insulation research and engineering education" in 2014.
[1][3] She was the 2015 recipient of the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society's Eric O. Forster Distinguished Service Award.