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.

Active Collaborators

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

Prof. Ali Cafer Gurbuz | University of Alabama
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​

Dr. Andrew Meintz | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
EV charging, electric vehicle implementation


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