Mehmet Sezgin received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in the Electronic and Communication Engineering department of Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul Turkey, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. He completed his Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University, in 2002.
He worked at Istanbul Technical University as Research Assistant. He has also worked at different institutions of The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) as Researcher, Senior Researcher and Chief Researcher (TUBITAK MAM - Marmara Research Center, TUBITAK UEKAE - National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology, TUBITAK BILGEM - Center Of Research For Advanced Technologies Of Informatics And Information Security), between 1991-2023.
He completed numerous industrial, governmental and military projects as researcher and Project Leader. His research areas are; image processing signal processing, ground penetrating radar, multi-sensor system design and automatic detection & classification of buried objects.
He was considered worthy of achievement award by TÜBİTAK MAM within the scope of the KKBS project completed in 1996.
The Modern Mine Detection Systems project, which was completed under the leadership of Mehmet Sezgin, was awarded with an achievement award by TÜBİTAK MAM in 2006.
The Handheld Mine Detection system project carried out by the leadership of Mehmet Sezgin was awarded with the incentive achievement award by TÜBİTAK MAM in 2008.
Mehmet Sezgin has contributed to the self-improvement of more than 100 team members in the projects he participated in and leaded.
He had been as Institute deputy director and Institute Director of Information Technologies Institute of TÜBİTAK BİLGEM, where approximately 350 R&D personnel employed.
In 2015, he chaired the TÜBİTAK BİLGEM Research Center as acting president, where approximately 1500 personnel worked.
There are national and international patent applications with the name of Dr. Mehmet Sezgin. He is the author of more than 50 highly cited papers printed in SCI journals and numerous scientific conference papers. He has been reviewing processes of various scientific journals.
His papers have more than 7959 citations on Google Scholar by October 2025.
Dr. Mehmet Sezgin has been included to the “top 2% of the world’s most influential scientists” list prepared by Stanford University in the “career-long impact” and “annual impact” categories, since 2019.
He was national delegate at more than 30 NATO (https://www.sto.nato.int/Pages/default.aspx ) projects and experts working group meetings, between 1999-2013.
Mehmet Sezgin is passionate about developing people so that they can become their best selves and always encourages (especially young) people to get out of their comfort zones in ways that will help them to grow and develop.
Therefore he also gave graduate courses at Gebze Technical University (https://www.gtu.edu.tr/ ) and Yıldız Technical University (https://www.yildiz.edu.tr/ ).
Currently he works at İstanbul Ticaret University as Professor.
Mehmet Sezgin is a resilient hard worker who puts a lot of effort and energy into his work and everything he does.
He enjoys to look at things from different perspectives and look beyond what exists when coming up with new ideas, inventions and approaches.
He believes future is ours to build.