Mithat John 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.

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.

Aziz Ucer
Ph.D. Student

Short Bio  |  
Aziz received the B.S degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey in 2016. He worked as a System Test Engineer in Aselsan--a large defence contractor in Turkey. He worked in the areas of air defense systems and designed FPGA-based test hardware . He also developed test software for mass production of systems. He’s been working as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Alabama since August 2020. His current research interests include UAS power electronics, drone test bench development, and associated control systems.
Undergraduate Researchers
  1. Calvin Flack, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021
Alumni
  1. Parker Smith - M.S. Graduate, May 2021
  2. Ramona Buckreus - M.S. Graduate, December 2020 [Now at Bosch, Germany]
  3. Dr. Nuh Erdogan - Post-Doctoral Researcher, Summer 2018 [Now at MaREI, UCC, Ireland]
  4. Brandon Stevens - Undergraduate, Spring 2020
  5. Karina Siegel - Undergraduate, Fall 2019, Spring 2020
  6. Andrew McDonald - Undergraduate, Summer 2019

Collaborators
We are especially grateful to our internal and external collaborators for their support of FIELD's research activities.
UA
Prof. Bharat Balasubramanian  |  Center for Advanced Vehicle Technologies
Prof. Allen Parrish | Alabama Transportation Institute
Prof. Mesut Yavuz | College of Business
Prof. Travis Atkison | Dept. of Computer Science
Prof. Andy Lemmon | Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng.
Academia (External)
Prof. Murat Yuksel  |  University of Central Florida
Prof. Kemal Akkaya | Florida International University
Prof. Ali Gurbuz | Mississippi State University
Prof. Yilmaz Sozer | The University of Akron
Prof. Bilal Akin | University of Texas at Dallas
Industry/National Lab
Dr. Andrew Meintz | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
​Mr. Tom Canada | Southern Company
Dr. Burak Ozpineci | Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Kumaraguru Prabhakar | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Dr. Nuh Erdogan | MaREI Centre, University College Cork, Ireland