Academia
- Sibel Adalı, Professor of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Leila Ahmed, Professor of Women's Studies in Religion at Harvard Divinity School [3]
- Ali Akansu, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NJIT
- Cevdet Akbay, Professor of Chemistry at Fayetteville State University
- Murat Arcak,
- Esra Akcan, Professor of Architecture at Cornell University
- Bilal Akin,
- Mustafa Aksakal, professor of history at Georgetown University
- İlhan Aksay, Professor in Engineering and Emeritus Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University [4]
- Asuman Aksoy, Professor of Mathematics at Claremont McKenna College
- Serap Aksoy, Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) at Yale University
- Ian F. Akyildiz, Chair Professor in Telecommunications
- Ilkay Altintas, Chief data science officer at the University of California
- H. Efsun Arda, turkish developmental and systems biologist
- Ali Argon, Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Huseyin Arslan
- Ilke Arslan, Microscopist and Director of the Center for Nanoscale Materials and the Nanoscience and Technology division at Argonne National Laboratory
- Muzaffer Atac, Professor of Physics
- Sonya Atalay, professor of anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Bülent Atalay, Professor of physics at the University of Mary Washington and the University of Virginia
- Esin Atıl, historian of Islamic art and curator of Islamic art at the Freer Gallery of Art
- Ozlem Ayduk, social psychologist at U.C. Berkeley
- Özalp Babaoğlu, Professor of computer science at University of Bologna
- Ivet Bahar, Professor of Computational Biology at University of Pittsburgh
- A. Baha Balantekin, Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin
- Asım Orhan Barut, Professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder [5]
- Itzhak Bars, theoretical physicist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles
- Tamer Başar, Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Elif Batuman, academic and journalist
- Nihat Berker, scientist, theoretical chemist, physicist and emeritus professor of physics at MIT
- Burcin Becerik-Gerber, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California
- Esra Bulbul, Professor of Physics at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
- Koray Caliskan, is a Turkish economic sociologist and organizational designer
- Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- Gunduz Caginalp, Professor of Mathematics at University of Pittsburgh
- Emir Caner, President of Truett McConnell University
- Ergun Caner, Professor of Theology and Church History
- Tuncer Cebeci (1934–2021), engineer and academic
- Zeynep Çelik-Butler, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington.
- Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Associate professor of the practice in statistics at Duke University
- Erhan Çınlar, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University
- Canan Dağdeviren, assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Utkan Demirci, Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine
- Arif Dirlik, Professor at the University of British Columbia
- Servet A. Duran, Professor of Materials Science at Washington State University
- Dilek Huseyinzadegan, associate professor of philosophy at Emory University
- Taner Edis, Professor of physics at the Truman State University
- Merve Emre, Associate professor of American literature at Oxford University
- Mustafa Emirbayer, Professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Ali Erdemir, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University
- Fazıl Erdoğan, Professor and Dean of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at Lehigh University
- Funda Ergun, Professor of computer science at Indiana University Bloomington
- Ahmed Cemal Eringen, Professor of continuum mechanics at Princeton University
- Alev Erisir, Professor of Psychology and the Department Chair at the University of Virginia
- Elza Erkip, Professor and wireless technology researcher at New York University
- Okan Ersoy, Professor of electrical engineering and Director of Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory at Purdue University
- Alper Erturk, Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
- Erdağ Göknar, Associate Professor of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University
- Selda Gunsel, Vice President (VP) for Global Commercial Technology at Royal Dutch Shell
- Murat Günel, Professor of Neurosurgery at Yale University
- Faruk Gül, Professor of Economics, Princeton University [6]
- Feza Gürsey, mathematician and physicist
- Suha Gürsey, physicist and mathematician
- Halil Güven, Dean of San Diego State University – Georgia
- M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
- Çiğdem Balım Harding, Senior lecturer at Indiana University
- Peter Harzem, Professor of Psychology at Auburn University
- Ali Hortaçsu, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago
- Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, Professor of Nutrition & Division of Biological Sciences at Harvard University
- Alp Ikizler, nephrologist, holder of the Catherine McLaughlin Hakim chair in Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
- Ataç İmamoğlu, physicist
- Umran Inan, scientist at Koç University and Stanford University
- Murat Iyigun, Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado
- Cemal Kafadar, Professor of Turkish Studies at Harvard University
- Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Professor of Healthcare Risk Management at the University of Minnesota
- Merve Kavakçı, George Washington University Professor and former Fazilet Party Parliamentarian
- Çetin Kaya Koç
- C. Emre Koksal , professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ohio State University
- Pınar Keskinocak, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
- Timur Kuran, Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor in Islamic Studies at Duke University
- Duygu Kuzum, professor at the University of California, San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering
- Yahya M. Madra, Associate Professor of Economics at Drew University
- Naci Mocan, Ourso Distinguished Chair of Economics at Louisiana State University
- Gülru Necipoğlu, Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University
- Salih Neftçi, Professor of Economics at the New School University (Turkish-Iraqi origin)
- Banu Onaral, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Drexel University
- Özalp Özer, Professor of Management Science at the University of Texas at Dallas
- Mihri Özkan, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
- Meral Özsoyoglu, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University
- Asuman Özdağlar, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, astronomer and astrophysicist at the University of Arizona
- Dani Rodrik, professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
- Sema Salur, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Rochester
- Aziz Sancar, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine
- Ezel Kural Shaw, historian and wife of Stanford J. Shaw
- Muzafer Sherif, Professor of Sociology at Pennsylvania State University
- Eshref Shevky, Professor of Sociology at the University of California
- Oktay Sinanoğlu, youngest full Professor in Yale's 20th-century history
- Emin Gün Sirer, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University
- Halil Mete Soner, Professor of Financial Mathematics at ETH Zürich
- Tayfun Sönmez, Professor of Economics at Boston College
- Ayşe Şahin, chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Wright State University
- Damla Şentürk, Professor of biostatistics in the University of California
- Serap Z. Tilav, US Antarctic Program field team member; the Tilav Cirque is named after her
- Mehmet Toner, Professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School and Professor of biomedical engineering at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology [7]
- Sefaattin Tongay, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Arizona State University
- Zeynep Tufekci, Associate professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina
- Dilek Hakkani-Tür, professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Galip Ulsoy, Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and W.C. Ford Professor Emeritus of Manufacturing at University of Michigan
- Turgay Üzer, Professor Emeritus at Georgia Institute of Technology [8]
- Turhan Nejat Veziroğlu, is a professor emeritus at the University of Miami
- Vamık Volkan, [9] Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia,
- Nur Yalman, [10] Professor of Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University
- Osman Yaşar, Professor and chair of the computational science department at State University of New York College at Brockport [11]
- Ece Yaprak, professor of engineering technology at Wayne State University
- Birsen Yazici
- K. Aslıhan Yener, [12] University of Chicago archaeologist who uncovered a new source of Bronze Age Anatolian tin mines
- Yaman Yener, Professor of Engineering at Northeastern University
- Aylin Yener, holds the Roy and Lois Chope Chair in engineering at Ohio State University
- Ahmet Yıldız, Associate Professor of Physics and Molecular Cell Biology at the University of California
- Bilge Yildiz,Professor of Nuclear Science, Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Bilge Yılmaz, Wharton Private Equity Professor and Professor of Finance at the Wharton School
- Pınar Yoldaş, architect, artist and Professor at University of California San Diego
- Pinar Zorlutuna, professor of Bioengineering at the University of Notre Dame
