Damla Turgut is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of University of Central Florida.

She received her BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the Computer Science and Engineering Department of University of Texas at Arlington. She has been included in the WHO's WHO among students in American Universities and Colleges in 2002. She has been awarded outstanding research award and has been recipient of the Texas Telecommunication Engineering Consortium (TxTEC) fellowship. She is a member of IEEE, member of the ACM, and the Upsilon Pi Epsilon honorary society. Her research interests include wireless networking, mobile computing, agents, distributed systems, and software engineering.