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

Short Bio  |  
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.

Ramona Buckreus
Ph.D. Student

Short Bio  |  
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 and a Ph.D. student at the University of Alabama since January 2019. Her research interests include electric vehicles, power electronics, and electric machines

Active Collaborators

Academia
Prof. Murat Yuksel  |  University of Central Florida
Computer networks, EV charging control

Prof. Ali Cafer Gurbuz | Mississippi State University
Signal processing, compressive sensing

Prof. Eyuphan Bulut | Virginia Commonwealth University
Communications, vehicle charge matching

Prof. Kemal Akkaya | Florida International University
Cyber-security and DSRC communications​
Industry/National Lab
Dr. Andrew Meintz | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
EV charging, electric vehicle implementation

Dr. Luigi Giubbolini | Andromeda Power, LLC
EV charging infrastructure.

Dr. Mustafa Guven | Schlumberger
DC-DC and DC-AC power conversion
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