İnci ÇİLESİZ graduated from Electronics and Communication Engineering Program at Istanbul Technical University in 1986. She completed her postgraduate studies as a Fulbright scholar at the end of 1991 and 1994 (MSE and PhD, respectively) in the Interdisciplinary Biomedical Engineering Program at The University of Texas at Austin, USA. İnci ÇİLESİZ is the first Turkish national to receive theoretical and practical training in laser-tissue interactions and biomedical optics. In October 1995 she started working as an assistant professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Istanbul Technical University. As an invited researcher she visited the USA (The University of Texas at Austin, TX, 1997), Israel (Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1998) and Minnesota (Biomedical Optics Laboratories, University of Minnesota @ Twin Cities, 2007). In 2000, she was invited as a "senior research fellow" to the Netherlands to participate on the project titled "Optical Coherence Tomography: Theoretical and Practical Limitations of Minimally-Invasive Imaging of Biological Tissues" at the Lasercentrum of AMC affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Amsterdam. İnci ÇİLESİZ became a full professor in 2003. She currently teaches mandatory courses and supervises theses in the Biomedical Engineering Program of LEE. At the undergraduate level, she teaches EHB 222E Introduction to Electronics and EHB 262E Fundamentals of Electronics. She serves as a referee and observer for various projects at TÜBİTAK, particularly, 1001, 1003 and 1501.
İnci ÇİLESİZ is fluent in English and German, has limited knowledge of Spanish, French, Dutch and Italian. She loves traveling, archaeology, gastronomy, nature and photography.