Mithat Kisacikoglu
​Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alabama
Office: South Engineering Research Center (SERC) Room 3002
Phone: 205-348-0219
e-mail: mkisacik[at]ua[dot]edu
FIELD: SERC Room 3045
Mailing address: Box 870286, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35487
CV.pdf (Updated August 2016)
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Research Areas

  • Smart Grid Integration of Electric Vehicles
  • Power Electronics
  • Renewable Energy Technologies
  • On/Off-Board Battery Chargers
  • V2G Power Transfer Applications
  • EVGI Data Management
  • V2V Communication
Briefly about me: Mithat Can [John] Kisacikoglu received the B.S. degree from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2005; M.S. degree from the University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, in 2007; and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, in 2013, all in electrical engineering. He worked as a Researcher at the University of Tennessee and at Oak Ridge National Lab between 2007 and 2013. He was an assistant professor at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey between 2014-2016. He also worked as a Research Engineer at National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) between 2015-2016. He joined University of Alabama in August 2016.

Dr. Kisacikoglu was the recipient of Post-Doctoral Return Fellowship Award from The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) in 2013 to conduct research and development in the area of EVGI in Turkey. He is an Associate Editor of The IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS since 2014.

Research Highlights

Lab News

  • Ph.D. applications are welcome for Spring 2018. If you are interested, send me your most current CV. Applicants with MS degrees are encouraged. Please also complete this "form" in addition to your e-mail.
  • [Jun 17] We did a presentation on modular bidirectional EV chargers at ITEC 2017 in Chicago. Click for the presentation. 
  • [May 17] Our paper, entitled "Distributed Control of PEV Charging Based on Energy Demand Forecast,"  is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Industry Informatics, Special Section on EVs as Smart Grid Enablers.    
  • [Mar 17] Our paper is accepted in 2017 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC2017). Click for the full paper.
  • [Feb 17] Lab construction in FIELD has started. 
  • [Jan 17] Emin Y. Ucer joined FIELD as a new Ph.D. student. 
  • [Jan 17] Our paper is accepted in IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2017. Click for the paper.
  • [Dec 16] Our research was presented at 2016 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, Symposium on Smart Grid Infrastructure on December 9, 2016. Click for the paper. Here is the presentation.