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Salih Baris Ozturk OKAN University Faculty of Engineering & Architecture Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Tuzla Kampusu Formula 1 Yani Room 214, Tuzla, Istanbul/TURKEY 34959 Email: baris.ozturk@okan.edu.tr +90 (216) 677-1630 ext. 2461 (office), 2485 (PEEC Lab) EDUCATION 2006 2008 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY College Station, TX Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Dissertation: Direct Torque Control of Brushless DC Motor with Non-sinusoidal Back-EMF Emphasis: Power Electronics & Motor Drives Degree Plan G.P.A.: 3.83 / 4.0 2002 2005 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY College Station, TX M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering Thesis: Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis of Low-Cost Direct Torque Control of PMSM Using Hall-Effect Sensors Emphasis: Power Electronics & Motor Drives Degree Plan G.P.A.: 4.0/ 4.0 1995 2000 ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY Istanbul, TURKEY B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering Graduation Project: Vector Control of Induction Motor in VISSIM Emphasis: Power Electronics & Motor Drives Cumulative G.P.A.: 3.31 / 4.0 (Ranked 2 nd in class of 170) RESEARCH INTERESTS Design and Control of Electric Machines and Drives Modeling, Simulation, Analysis, DSP & Microcontroller Based Design, Control and Implementation of Energy Conversion Systems, Power Electronics and Industrial Applications Application of Modern Control Theory and Signal Processing to Energy Systems and Industrial Processes Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) Applications Fault Diagnosis & Condition Monitoring of Industrial Components and Energy Conversion Systems Renewable & Clean Energy Systems PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2009 Present OKAN UNIVERSITY Istanbul, TURKEY Assistant Professor Intelligent Unmanned Ground Vehicle Project: Developed power electronics, motor drive, and intelligent steering, brake, throttle, and gear-shift control of an unmanned automobile that has an automated manual transmission Electric Bike Project: Designed brushless dc hub motor for electric bicycle. Designed power electronics and control board that drives the battery powered brushless dc (BLDC) hub motor with three hall-effect position sensors. Modeled and simulated the BLDC machine in motoring mode. Developed microcontroller and DSP codes to accomplish the two-phase conduction hall sensored based BLDC drive 1

Gearless Elevator Motor Design Project: Designed different speed and power range (Car speeds 0.63 m/s, 1 m/s, and 1.6 m/s with 1 kw to 12 kw power range) gearless low-speed high torque permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) for elevators Innovative and Sustainable Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technology Development and Clustering Center (İSTKA) - TR10/14/YEN/0088: Design, develop and control of high power/torque electric vehicle drive-train based on Hardware-In-Loop (HIL) system. Beginning: 01/09/2013 Ending: 01/09/2015 Total Project Funding: 723,500 TL TÜBİTAK 3501 - Implementation of Position Sensorless Direct-Drive Permanent Magnet Generator-based Small-Scale Wind Power Generating System for Wide Speed Ranges Beginning: 01/04/2013 Ending: 01/10/2015 Total Project Funding: 108,544 TL TÜBİTAK 1501 - Development of a High Efficient and Domestic Power-Train System for Electric Vehicles: Develop electric power train control software algorithm for electric vehicles including regenerative braking and perform tests on the test-bench and on an actual electric vehicle Beginning: 01/08/2012 Ending: 18/04/2014 Total Project Funding: 1,400,000 TL Electric Power Train Control Software Algorithm Development for Electric Vehicles (Modeling, Simulation and Code Development) - EPT-SMS Beginning: 01/08/2012 Ending: 15/07/2013 Electric Power Train Software Algorithm Development for Electric Vehicle Regenerative Braking System (Modeling, Simulation and Code Development) - EPT-RBS Beginning: 15/07/2013 Ending: 18/04/2014 Development of an Electro-Hydraulic Power Assisted Steering (EHPAS) System: Design, simulate and develop EHPAS motor control algorithm using Digital Signal Processor Beginning: 01/06/2013 Ending: Continue Approximate Total Project Funding: 500,000 TL (Consulting: 185,000 TL) TÜBİTAK 1002 - Very Low Speed Control of Three Phase AC Motor Using Least Mean Square Method With Low Resolution Encoder Beginning: 01.11.2015 Ending: 31.10.2016 Total Project Funding: 29,350 TL Courses Taught: Computer Programming (Turkish & English) (C Language) (Spring 2009), Introduction to MATLAB/SIMULIK (Fall 2010), Introduction to EE/MCHT Engineering (Fall 2010-11-12-13-14), Electromechanical Energy Conversion (Fall 2010-11-12-13-14), Microcontrollers (Spring 2011-12-13-14-15), Fundamentals of Power Systems (Spring 2011-12-13-14-15), Electric Drives (Fall 2011-12-13-14), Engineering Design (Fall 2015), Advanced Electric Drives (Graduate Level Course) (Spring 2012, Fall 2013-14), DSP-Based Electromechanical Motion Control (Graduate Level Course) (Spring 2013-14-15), Principles of Energy Systems Engineering (Fall 2014) Other Lectures: - Teaching Staff Mobility Under The Life Long Learning Program (LLP). Subject: Electric Motor Drives. Erasmushogeschool Brussel, Belgium. From 18/05/2011 to 23/05/2011 - Teaching Staff Mobility Under The Life Long Learning Program (LLP). Subject: Brushless Motor Drives. Opole Technological University, Opole, Poland. From 13/05/2013 to 17/05/2013 - Teaching Staff Mobility Under The Erasmus+. Subject: Fundamentals of Electromechanical Energy Conversion and Brushless DC Drives. Université d'orléans - Polytechnique d'orléans Orléans, France. From 27/05/2015 to 29/05/2015 Trainings Received: - ControlDesk Next Generation Basic, September 15, 2015, Paderborn (Germany) - dspace SCALEXIO System, September 16-17, 2015, Paderborn (Germany) 2

Administrative Tasks Undergraduate Mechatronics Engineering Program Coordinator Department of Electrical and Electronics Eng. Erasmus Coordinator Director of Power Electronics and Energy Conversion (PEEC) Lab. Power Electronics and Clean Energy Systems (PECES) M.Sc. Program Coordinator Mechatronics Engineering Ph.D. Program Asst. Coordinator Member of the Board of Directors of TTIS (Transportation Technologies and Intelligent Automotive Systems) Application & Research Center - UTAS Member of the Board of Coordination of ARPROGED (Research and Project Development) 2008 2009 UNITED TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTER (UTRC) East Hartford, CT Senior Research Engineer SIKORSKY Future Electric Helicopter Study: Evaluated alternative primary power systems, including the prime mover (fuel cell, battery, combustion engine/generator), distribution and electric drive, for an electrically powered helicopter and identified the resultant vehicle design impacts CARRIER Scalable Digital Control Engine: Phase I Develop sensorless Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) and Induction Motor (IM) variable frequency drives (VFDs). Phase II Develop a real-time operation system (RTOS) for sensorless PMSM and IM variable frequency drives used in Carrier air conditioning systems ranging from 5kW to 1MW World s First PEM Fuel Cell Based Helicopter: Defined, procured and integrated telemetry and power conditioning to the specifications Encoderless Induction Motor (IM) and PMSM Control: Developed Matlab/Simulink simulation models for encoderless IM control using stator voltage feed-forward control and PMSM control using Luenberger rotor flux observer. Performed a lab implementation of IM encoderless operation using rapid prototyping unit (AixController) with floating-point C code OTIS Elevator Company: Designed a dynamic braking system for tandem operation of mechanically decoupled two PM synchronous motors OTIS Grid Interface: Reviewed OTIS and global standards related to the grid interface. Investigated the grid interface issues occurred in the OTIS elevator systems and helped field engineers resolve the problems 2002 2008 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY College Station, TX Graduate Teaching Assistant and Lecturer Taught the laboratory courses Power Electronics and Introduction to Digital Design Lectured the undergraduate and graduate level course DSP-Based Electromechanical Motion Control and undergraduate course Introduction to Electrical Engineering Manager and Graduate Research Assistant at Electric Machines & Power Electronics (EMPE) Lab. Organized the daily operations, coordinated relations with equipment vendors, carried out purchases Implemented the following projects using Texas Instrument s DSPs: Sensorless Direct Torque and Indirect Flux Control of Three-Phase Brushless DC (BLDC) Motor with Non-sinusoidal Back-EMF in Wide Speed Range Direct Torque Control of Three and Five-Phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) Drives Boost Power Factor Correction of Direct Torque Controlled BLDC Motor Drive Six- and Four-Switch Two-Phase Conduction DTC of BLDC Motor Drives with Non-sinusoidal Back-EMF Low-Count Encoder Based Field-Oriented Control (FOC) of Induction Motor Drive for Golf Cars (using 4,6,8,32,64 pulse encoder up to one-digit rpm) On-board Fault Diagnosis of Induction Motor (IM) for Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) at Start-Up and Idle Mode 3

FOC of Three-Phase PMSM and IM Drives Speed Control of BLDC Motor Using Three Hall-Effect Sensors Stepper Motor Control Using TMS320LF2407 Simulation based projects: Sensorless Control of Interior and Surface-Mount PM Synchronous Motors in MATLAB/Simulink Finite Element Analysis of Axial PM Synchronous Motor Using Ansoft/Maxwell 3D, and Electronic Pole Change of Switch Reluctance Motor for HEV Applications Using Ansoft/Maxwell 2D Low-Cost Direct Torque Control of PMSM Using Three Hall-Effect Sensors in MATLAB/Simulink Sep Dec 04 WHIRLPOOL CO. Benton Harbor, MI Internship at Whirlpool R&D Center Modeled brushless PM motor direct drive for a washing machine in Ansoft/SIMPLORER Jun Sep 98 PAKMAYA PRODUCTION FACILITY Duzce, TURKEY Internship Involved in the development of Programmable Logic Control (PLC) for electric motor drives using OMRON Jun Sep 97 EREGLI IRON AND STEEL WORKS CO. Kdz. Eregli, TURKEY Internship Participated in a project of induction motor V/Hz control at Electric Motor Drives Group RELEVANT COURSEWORK Electrical Machines, Electrical Drives, General Theory of Electromechanical Motion Devices, Computer-aided Design of Electrical Machines, Motor Drive Dynamics Power Electronic Circuits, Power Electronics Applications, Rectifiers and Inverter Circuits Automatic Control, Digital Control Systems, Microprocessors, Digital Signal Processing Linear System Theory, Linear Control Systems, Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems, DSP-Based Electromechanical Motion Control Electric & Hybrid Vehicles, Analysis of Power Electronic Systems, HVDC Transmission HONORS / AWARDS MEMBERSHIPS UTRC Outstanding Achievement Award (Highest Award at UTRC), 2009 IEEE-IECON 2008 Best Paper Award Second Prize Accomplished the first Fuel Cell Based Helicopter flight successfully in the world, 10/2008 Session chair at IEEE-IECON Conference in Orlando, FL, 2008 TAMU Office of Graduate Studies Travel and Presentation Grant for IAS Conference, Fall 2007 Academic Excellence Scholarship, Texas A&M University (TAMU), College Station, 2004 Achievement Award (Ranked 2nd in Department of Electrical Eng.) from Istanbul Technical University, 2000 Upon graduation as the valedictorian of high school class and receiving high marks on the Turkish National Exam, recruited by the Turkish government to attend Istanbul Technical University, 1995 IEEE Member 2008 Present IEEE Student Member, 2002 2008 4

SKILLS Professional Software: Assembly / C, C++ for DSP TMS320F24xx, TMS320C28xx, TMS320C28xxx, TMS470 and Fujitsu Microcontrollers, Code Composer Studio, PSIM, PSpice, EWB, SIMetrix/SIMPLIS, VISSIM, Max Plus II, MATLAB/Simulink, MathCAD, Maple, AutoCAD, ANSYS, ANSYS Maxwell 2D/3D and SIMPLORER, PowerWorld Simulator General Software: Visual Basic, Visio, SmartDraw, SketchUp, Adobe Dreamweaver, MS Office 2003/2007/2010/2013 & Windows XP/2000/Vista/7/8 Languages: Fluent in English and Turkish PUBLICATIONS & PATENTS World Patents D. Zhang, T. Gietzold, S. Varigonda, S. B. Ozturk, Method for Smooth Motor Startup, WO 2013/016505 A2 & A3, January 31, 2013 US Patents Da Zhang, Thomas Gietzold, Subbarao Varigonda, Salih Baris Ozturk, Method for Smooth Motor Startup, US20140152212 A1, June 5, 2014 Turkish Patents P. G. Ali Zada, O. C. Kıvanç, S. B. Öztürk, R. N. Tuncay, ÇOK KANATLI YELKEN TİPİ DAİRESEL BİR RÜZGAR TÜRBİNİ, Turkish Patent Institute (TPE) Appl. No: PT 2013 / 15615, December 31, 2013 Books Co-author of DSP-Based Electromechanical Motion Control, Edited by Hamid A. Toliyat, CRC Press, 2003 IEEE Transaction Papers B. Akin, S. B. Ozturk, H. A. Toliyat, and M. Rayner, DSP-Based Sensorless Electric Motor Fault- Diagnosis Tools for Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicle Powertrain Applications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 58, no. 6, pp. 2679-2688, July 2009 S. B. Ozturk, W. C. Alexander, and H. A. Toliyat, Direct Torque Control of Four-Switch Brushless DC Motor with Non-Sinusoidal Back-EMF, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 263-271, Feb. 2010 S. B. Ozturk and H. A. Toliyat, Sensorless Direct Torque and Indirect Flux Control of Brushless DC Motor, IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 351-360, April 2011 IEEE Conference Papers P. G. Ali-Zade, R. N. Tuncay, S. B. Ozturk, O. C. Kivanc, Quasi-Smart Construction Synchronous Machine Working with Extensive Cycling Load, in Proc. International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technology and Statistics in Economy and Education (ICAICTSEE - 2012), pp. 93-101, UNWE, Sofia, Bulgaria, Oct. 5-6, 2012. O. Ustun, S. B. Ozturk, O. C. Kivanc, P. G. Ali Zade, R. N. Tuncay, Exciting System Selection for Brushless Synchronous Machine, in Proc. 8th Mediterranean Conference on Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Energy Conversion (MedPower 2012), pp. 72-78, Cagliary, Italy, Oct. 1-3, 2012. Akgün, B.T., Koç, Z., Güner, Ş., Öztürk S.B., Özkan, B., Üstün, Ö., Tuncay, N., Özgüner, Ü., A Study on Autonomous Vehicle Development Process at Okan University, in Proc. IEEE-ICVES 5

Annu. Meeting (IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety), pp. 369-374, İstanbul, Turkey, Jul. 24-27, 2012. S. B. Ozturk and H. A. Toliyat, Sensorless Direct Torque and Indirect Flux Control of Brushless DC Motor with Non-sinusoidal Back-EMF, in Proc. IEEE-IECON Annu. Meeting, Orlando, FL, Nov. 9-11, 2008, vol. 1-5, pp. 1373-1378 S. B. Ozturk, W. C. Alexander, and H. A. Toliyat, Direct Torque Control of Four-Switch Brushless DC Motor with Non-Sinusoidal Back-EMF, in Proc. IEEE-PESC (Power Electronics Specialists) Annu. Meeting, Rhodes, Greece, Jun. 15-19, 2008, vol. 1-10, pp. 4730-4736. S. Baris Ozturk, B. Akin, and H. A. Toliyat, "Low-Cost Direct Torque Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Using Hall-Effect Sensors", in Proc. IEEE-APEC Annu. Meeting, Dallas, TX, Mar. 19-23, 2006, pp. 667-673 B. Akin, S. B. Ozturk, P. Niazi, H. A. Toliyat, and A. Goodarzi, "Low Speed Performance Operation of Induction Motors Drives Using Low-Resolution Speed Sensor," in Proc. IEEE-ISIE Annu. Meeting, Montreal, Canada, Jul. 9-13, 2006, vol. 1-7, pp. 2110-2115 B. Akin, S. B. Ozturk, and H. A. Toliyat, "Analyzing Contributions to Very- Low-Speed Measurement Techniques Using Low-Count Encoders," TI Texas Instruments Developer Conference, Dallas, TX, Feb. 28-Mar. 2, 2006 S. B. Ozturk, O. Yang, and H. A. Toliyat, Power Factor Correction of Direct Torque Controlled Brushless DC Motor Drive, in Proc. IEEE-IAS Annu. Meeting, New Orleans, LU, Sep. 23-27, 2007, vol. 1-5, pp. 297-304 B. Akin, S. B. Ozturk, and H. A. Toliyat, On-board Fault Diagnosis of Induction Motor in HEV at Start-up and Idle Mode, in Proc. IEEE-VPPC Annu. Meeting, Arlington, TX, Sept. 9-12, 2007, vol. 1-2, pp. 140-147 I. S. Freitas, H. A. Toliyat, C. B. Jacobina, S. B. Ozturk, A PWM Strategy with Reduced Bearing Currents for Five-Phase Motors, in Proc. IEEE-VPPC Annu. Meeting, Arlington, TX, Sept. 9-12, 2007, vol. 1-2, pp. 354-358 S. B. Ozturk and H. A. Toliyat, Direct Torque Control of Brushless DC Motor with Nonsinusoidal Back-EMF, in Proc. IEEE-IEMDC Biennial Meeting, Antalya, Turkey, May 3-5, 2007, vol. 1-2, pp. 165-171 6

REFERENCES Prof. Hamid A. Toliyat (M.Sc. and Ph.D. Supervisor) Electric Machines & Power Electronics (EMPE) Lab. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843 Phone: (979) 862-3034 E-mail: toliyat@ece.tamu.edu Prof. Prasad Enjeti (M.Sc. and Ph.D. Committee Member) Power Electronic & Clean Power Research Laboratory & Fuel Cell Power Systems Laboratory Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843 Phone: (979) 845-7466 E-mail: enjeti@ece.tamu.edu Dr. Farhad Ashrafzadeh (Global Key Technology Leader) Whirlpool Corporation Research &Development Center 750 Monte Rd, MD 5210, Benton Harbor, MI 49022 Phone: (269) 923-7344 E-mail: Farhad_Ashrafzadeh@Whirlpool.com Dr. Vladimir Blasko (Group Leader and Senior Fellow) United Technologies Research Center Power Electronic Systems Group 411 Silver Lane East Hartford, CT 06108 Phone: +1 (860) 610-7741 E-mail: blaskov@utrc.utc.com Prof. Dr. R. Nejat Tuncay (Dean and Department Head) OKAN University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering Tuzla Kampusu, Formula 1 Yani 34959 Tuzla, ISTANBUL /TURKEY Phone: +90 (216) 677-1630 ext. 2400 E-mail: nejat.tuncay@okan.edu.tr 7