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Dr Zeynep Tekler
Junior Research Fellow
Postdoctoral Researcher, Engineering Science
PhD (Singapore University of Technology and Design); MEng (Isik University); BEng (Isik University, Valedictorian); BSc (Isik University, Salutatorian)
Dr Zeynep Duygu Tekler is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Engineering Science and a Junior Research Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on occupant-centric smart building technologies and machine learning approaches for high-performance buildings. Her postdoctoral work involves developing scalable and cost-effective building technologies and implementing data-driven approaches for collecting and analysing energy data at scale.
Before joining Oxford, she held a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the Department of the Built Environment at the National University of Singapore. She earned her PhD in Engineering Product Development at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) under the SUTD-MIT International Design Center in 2021. Prior to her PhD, she received both her MSc and BSc in Industrial Engineering from Isik University, where she received the honour of Valedictorian.
Dr Tekler’s research has been published in top-tier peer-reviewed journals, and she actively serves as a reviewer for journals including Building and Environment, Energy and Buildings, and Applied Energy. She was the recipient of the prestigious SINGA PhD scholarship and was awarded the SUTD Best Research Project Award for her patented work on an innovative occupancy-driven energy management system. She was also the winner of the SUTD 3MT Competition and the Asia-Pacific finalist in 2020.