Mithat Kisacikoglu
Principal Investigator

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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.

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

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.

Sergio Bacca
Ph.D. Student

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Sergio received the B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from University of Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, in 2012; M.S. degree from the University of Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, in 2015. He worked as electrical engineer at Wood group PSN Colombia between 2012 and 2013. He worked as Research Assistant and Ph.D. student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University between 2015 and 2018. He’s been working as Research Assistant and Ph.D. student at the University of Alabama since January 2019. His research interests are power electronics, embedded systems, electric vehicles, and control. 

Parker Smith
M.S. Student

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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. 

Andrew McDonald
Undergrad. Student

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Andrew is a senior at the University of Alabama set to graduate in May 2020 with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Mathematics. He has worked with Southern Nuclear at Plant Farley in both the Electrical Design and Instrumentation and Controls Design groups as well as in the Electrical Systems group. His research interests include power electronics, EV-grid integration, and residential scale power consumption monitoring techniques.

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 | Caterpillar, Inc.
DC-DC and DC-AC power conversion
​Mr. Tom Canada | Southern Company
EV grid integration impacts on distribution system