Meryem Yucel, PhD
Research Associate Professor
Boston University College of Engineering
Biomedical Engineering

PhD, Bogaziçi University
MS, Bogaziçi University
BS, Bogaziçi University



Prior to her position at BU, Meryem Yücel was an Assistant in Biomedical Engineering at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School, Radiology. Her primary research interest is to understand how the brain works in health and disease. Her ultimate academic goal is to understand how thoughts affect our reality, particularly our health. Throughout her career, she has gained expertise in mathematical modeling of biological systems and functional brain imaging (fNIRS, fMRI, EEG). Currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at BU, her primary focus is on functional Near-InfraRed Spectroscopy method and translating it to clinical applications and disseminating its use in basic neuroscience research.


Advancing a novel portable detection method for cannabis intoxication
02/14/2018 - 08/14/2019 (Subcontract PI)
Brain Solutions Inc NIH NIDA
1R42DA043977-01



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  1. Yücel MA, Anderson JE, Rogers D, Hajirahimi P, Farzam P, Gao Y, Kaplan RI, Braun EJ, Mukadam N, Duwadi S, Carlton L, Beeler D, Butler LK, Carpenter E, Girnis J, Wilson J, Tripathi V, Zhang Y, Sorger B, von Lühmann A, Somers DC, Cronin-Golomb A, Kiran S, Ellis TD, Boas DA. Quantifying the impact of hair and skin characteristics on fNIRS signal quality for enhanced inclusivity. Nat Hum Behav. 2025 Sep 02.View Related Profiles. PMID: 40897802
     
  2. Yücel MA, Luke R, Mesquita RC, von Lühmann A, Mehler DMA, Lührs M, Gemignani J, Abdalmalak A, Albrecht F, de Almeida Ivo I, Artemenko C, Ashton K, Augustynowicz P, Bajracharya A, Bannier E, Barth B, Bayet L, Behrendt J, Khani HB, Borot L, Borrell JA, Brigadoi S, Brink K, Bulgarelli C, Caruyer E, Chen HC, Copeland C, Corouge I, Cutini S, Di Lorenzo R, Dresler T, Eggebrecht AT, Ehlis AC, Erdogan SB, Evenblij D, Ferdous TR, Fracalossi V, Franzén E, Gallagher A, Gerloff C, Gervain J, Goldhamer N, Gossé LK, Guérin SMR, Guevara E, Hosseini SMH, Innes-Brown H, Int-Veen I, Jaffe-Dax S, Jégou N, Kawaguchi H, Kelsey C, Kent M, Kessler R, Kherbawy N, Klein F, Kochavi N, Kolisnyk M, Koren Y, Kroczek A, Kvist A, Lin CP, Löw A, Luan S, Mao D, Martins GG, Middell E, Montero-Hernandez S, Mutlu MC, Novi SL, Paquette N, Paranawithana I, Parmet Y, Peelle JE, Peng K, Peng T, Pereira J, Pinti P, Pollonini L, Jounghani AR, Reindl V, Ringels W, Schopp B, Schulte A, Schulte-Rüther M, Segel A, Ala TS, Shader MJ, Shavit H, Sherafati A, Soltanlou M, Sorger B, Speh E, Stubbs KD, Stute K, Sullivan EF, Tak S, Tipado Z, Tremblay J, Vahidi H, Van Eeckhoutte M, Vannasing P, Vergotte G, Vincent MA, Weiss E, Yang D, Yükselen G, Zapala D, Zemanek V. Publisher Correction: fNIRS reproducibility varies with data quality, analysis pipelines, and researcher experience. Commun Biol. 2025 Aug 21; 8(1):1256. PMID: 40841463; PMCID: PMC12370888; DOI: 10.1038/s42003-025-08714-4;
     
  3. Yücel MA, Luke R, Mesquita RC, von Lühmann A, Mehler DMA, Lührs M, Gemignani J, Abdalmalak A, Albrecht F, de Almeida Ivo I, Artemenko C, Ashton K, Augustynowicz P, Bajracharya A, Bannier E, Barth B, Bayet L, Behrendt J, Khani HB, Borot L, Borrell JA, Brigadoi S, Brink K, Bulgarelli C, Caruyer E, Chen HC, Copeland C, Corouge I, Cutini S, Di Lorenzo R, Dresler T, Eggebrecht AT, Ehlis AC, Erdogan SB, Evenblij D, Ferdous TR, Fracalossi V, Franzén E, Gallagher A, Gerloff C, Gervain J, Goldhamer N, Gossé LK, Guérin SMR, Guevara E, Hosseini SMH, Innes-Brown H, Int-Veen I, Jaffe-Dax S, Jégou N, Kawaguchi H, Kelsey C, Kent M, Kessler R, Kherbawy N, Klein F, Kochavi N, Kolisnyk M, Koren Y, Kroczek A, Kvist A, Lin CP, Löw A, Luan S, Mao D, Martins GG, Middell E, Montero-Hernandez S, Mutlu MC, Novi SL, Paquette N, Paranawithana I, Parmet Y, Peelle JE, Peng K, Peng T, Pereira J, Pinti P, Pollonini L, Jounghani AR, Reindl V, Ringels W, Schopp B, Schulte A, Schulte-Rüther M, Segel A, Ala TS, Shader MJ, Shavit H, Sherafati A, Soltanlou M, Sorger B, Speh E, Stubbs KD, Stute K, Sullivan EF, Tak S, Tipado Z, Tremblay J, Vahidi H, Van Eeckhoutte M, Vannasing P, Vergotte G, Vincent MA, Weiss E, Yang D, Yükselen G, Zapala D, Zemanek V. fNIRS reproducibility varies with data quality, analysis pipelines, and researcher experience. Commun Biol. 2025 Aug 04; 8(1):1149. PMID: 40760004; PMCID: PMC12322209; DOI: 10.1038/s42003-025-08412-1;
     
  4. Kim BK, Howard AC, Cheng TY, Anderson JE, Zimmermann BB, Hazen E, Carlton L, Robinson M, Renna M, Yucel MA, Carp SA, Franceschini MA, Boas DA, Cheng X. Mapping human cerebral blood flow with high-density, multi-channel speckle contrast optical spectroscopy. bioRxiv. 2025 Jul 15.View Related Profiles. PMID: 40791320; PMCID: PMC12338529; DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.03.638332;
     
  5. Xu E, Vanegas M, Mireles M, Dementyev A, Yucel M, Carp S, Fang Q. Flexible-circuit-based 3-D aware modular optical brain imaging system for high-density measurements in natural settings. medRxiv. 2024 May 24. PMID: 38496598; PMCID: PMC10942511; DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.01.24302838;
     
  6. Ortega-Martinez A, Von Lühmann A, Farzam P, Rogers D, Mugler EM, Boas DA, Yücel MA. Multivariate Kalman filter regression of confounding physiological signals for real-time classification of fNIRS data. Neurophotonics. 2022 Apr; 9(2):025003.View Related Profiles. PMID: 35692628; PMCID: PMC9174890; DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.9.2.025003;
     
  7. Gilmore N, Yücel MA, Li X, Boas DA, Kiran S. Investigating Language and Domain-General Processing in Neurotypicals and Individuals With Aphasia - A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Pilot Study. Front Hum Neurosci. 2021; 15:728151.View Related Profiles. PMID: 34602997; PMCID: PMC8484538; DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.728151;
     
  8. Nemani A, Kamat A, Gao Y, Yucel M, Gee D, Cooper C, Schwaitzberg S, Intes X, Dutta A, De S. Erratum: Functional brain connectivity related to surgical skill dexterity in physical and virtual simulation environments (Erratum). Neurophotonics. 2021 Jul; 8(3):039801. PMID: 34337102; PMCID: PMC8315133; DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.8.3.039801;
     
  9. Nemani A, Kamat A, Gao Y, Yucel M, Gee D, Cooper C, Schwaitzberg S, Intes X, Dutta A, De S. Functional brain connectivity related to surgical skill dexterity in physical and virtual simulation environments. Neurophotonics. 2021 Jan; 8(1):015008. PMID: 33681406; PMCID: PMC7927423; DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.8.1.015008;
     
  10. Yücel MA, Lühmann AV, Scholkmann F, Gervain J, Dan I, Ayaz H, Boas D, Cooper RJ, Culver J, Elwell CE, Eggebrecht A, Franceschini MA, Grova C, Homae F, Lesage F, Obrig H, Tachtsidis I, Tak S, Tong Y, Torricelli A, Wabnitz H, Wolf M. Errata: Best practices for fNIRS publications. Neurophotonics. 2021 Jan; 8(1):019802.View Related Profiles. PMID: 33575435; PMCID: PMC7868645; DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.8.1.019802;
     
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