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Burak
Ozpineci (S’92–M’02–SM’05) received the B.S. degree in electrical
engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara,
Turkey, in 1994, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical
engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1998 and
2002, respectively.
He joined the Post-Masters Program with the Power
Electronics and Electric Machinery Research Center, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory (ORNL), Knoxville, TN, in 2001 and became a
Full-Time Research and Development Staff Member in 2002 and a
Technical Program Manager in 2006. He has been the Group Leader of
the Power and Energy Systems Group since 2008. Presently, he also has
an Adjunct Faculty appointment with the University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville and The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is doing
research on the system-level impact of SiC power devices, multilevel
inverters, power converters for distributed energy resources and
hybrid electric vehicles, and intelligent control applications for
power converters.
Dr. Ozpineci was the Chair of the IEEE PELS
Rectifiers and Inverters Technical Committee and Transactions Review
Chairman of the IEEE Industry Applications Society Industrial Power
Converter Committee. He was the recipient of the 2006 IEEE Industry
Applications Society Outstanding Young Member Award, 2001 IEEE
International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Best
Student Paper Award, and 2005 UT-Battelle (ORNL) Early Career Award
for Engineering Accomplishment.
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