Dr. Kurugol is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and a principal investigator and the director of the Quantitative Intelligent Imaging (QUIN) research group in Computational Radiology Lab (CRL) at Boston Children's Hospital. She received her BS from Middle East Technical University (METU),  MS from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, and PhD from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Previously she was a research fellow in Laboratory of Mathematics at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Her research interests include machine intelligence, artifical intelligence, and computational models and their applications in medical imaging and clinical applications.