Dr. Sahin received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in 1996, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA in 1998 and 2003. He worked as a part time consultant on optical systems for several Silicon Valley companies until 2004. He joined the faculty of the Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department of Middle East Technical University in 2004, where he worked as an assistant professor until 2012. He also gave lectures in Air War College, İstanbul and Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus.
Since 2012, he has been with the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara. His major research interests are Fiber Optics, Communication, Quantum Cryptography, Terahertz, Millimeter waves, and Remote Imaging. He has 4 international patents in the field of optics, millimeter waves and acoustics, more than 100 research publications and conference proceedings in various fields. He has participated in more than 40 R&D projects and is currently researcher and principal investigator in projects in the fields of terahertz spectrometry, sub-millimeter wave remote imaging for security, terahertz frequency communication systems development, and free space optical communications.