Mithat Kisacikoglu
Principal Investigator

Short Bio  |  
Dr. 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 joined Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2014. He then worked at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO as a research engineer between 2015-2016. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL. His research interests include electric vehicles (EVs), EV-grid integration, renewable energy sources, and power electronics converters. 

Emin Y. Ucer
Ph.D. Student

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Emin received the B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2015. He worked as a Research Engineer in TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) in the Division of Guidance, Control, and Navigation between 2015-2016. He’s been working as Research Assistant&Ph.D. student at the University of Alabama since January 2017. His research interests are power electronics, electric vehicles (EVs), EV-grid integration and control. He is also interested in machine learning and artificial intelligence based techniques and their applications.

Shahinur Rahman
Ph.D. Student

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Shahinur received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2014 and 2017, respectively. She obtained her second M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at Florida International University (FIU), Miami, USA in 2019. She was recognized as a "Dr. Rashid Scholar" due to her outstanding performance in M.S. program at BUET in 2017. She is a Graduate Council Fellow and currently working as a Ph.D. student at the University of Alabama since Fall 2019. Her research interest includes power system with distributed energy resources, micro-grid, power electronics applications in EV-grid integration and control.

Ramona Buckreus
M.S. Student

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Ramona received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Applied Sciences, Karlsruhe, Germany in 2018. She did a six-month internship at ZF Friedrichshafen AG in the division of power electronics in 2016. Her bachelor thesis was about the development of a gate drive board, and it was completed in cooperation with Porsche Engineering Services GmbH. Ramona works as a Research Assistant at the University of Alabama since January 2019. Her research interests include electric vehicles, power electronics, and electric machines.

Parker Smith
M.S. Student

Short Bio  |  
Parker received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Alabama in 2019. He worked in a 4-month internship at MOOG in the aircraft division in 2018. Parker has been working as Research Assistant and M.S. student at the University of Alabama since June 2019. His research interests include electric vehicles, power electronics, and digital controls. He is also interested in aerospace applications. 
Undergraduate Researchers
  1. Calvin Flack, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020
Alumni
  1. Dr. Nuh Erdogan - Post-Doctoral Researcher, Summer 2018 [Now at MaREI, UCC]
  2. Andrew McDonald - Undergraduate, Summer 2019.
  3. Karina Siegel, Undergraduate, Fall 2019, Spring 2020
  4. Brandon Stevens, Undergraduate, Spring 2020

Active External Collaborators

Academia
Prof. Murat Yuksel  |  University of Central Florida
Computer networks, EV charging control
Prof. Kemal Akkaya | Florida International University
Power electronics cyber security
Prof. Ali Cafer Gurbuz | Mississippi State University
Signal processing, compressive sensing
Prof. Yilmaz Sozer | University of Akron
V2V charging
Prof. Bilal Akin | University of Texas at Dallas
Power electronics cyber security
Industry/National Lab
Dr. Andrew Meintz | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
EV charging, electric vehicle implementation
​Mr. Tom Canada | Southern Company
EV grid integration impacts on distribution system
Dr. Burak Ozpineci | Oak Ridge National Laboratory
EV charging control
Dr. Kumaraguru Prabhakar | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Electric power distribution system
Dr. Nuh Erdogan | MaREI Centre, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Ireland
Real-time EV charging simulation