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Orkun Karabasoglu earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He works as a researcher at Vehicle Electrification Group and Design Decisions Laboratory directed by Professor Jeremy Michalek focused on design and control optimization, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and energy systems. He is a member of ASME and AIAA organizations. Orkun develops innovative approaches, theory, computational tools and mechatronic devices at the intersection of design optimization, intelligent control and machine learning with applications on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and energy systems.

Brief Biography

Orkun Karabasoglu was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1984. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, under the guidance of Professor Jeremy Michalek. He received his second M.S degree in Sabanci University, Turkey where he worked as a research assistant under supervision of Professor Gullu Kiziltas. He received double B.Sc. degrees in mechatronics engineering with honors from Kocaeli University, Turkey and Bochum University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

In his master thesis, he developed an efficient design optimization framework for RF and optical applications and applied the framework on design of broad band patch antennas and plasmonic nano-antennas. He integrated metamodeling tools such as artificial neural networks, radial basis functions and kriging with global optimizers(GAs) to speed up the re-anaylsis of electromagnetic systems. In Sabanci University, he led recitations for courses such as 'ME303-Control System Design' and 'NS101-Nature and Science (Physics)' as a teaching assistant. His major was Control Systems and Robotics. He completed his bachelor project in collaboration with INNOTEC High Engineering GmbH, Germany where he designed and prototyped the controller and RF based remote control of an air treatment system which was to be released into market.

In 2002, he was chosen as one of the 20 people from over 5000 candidates who could become one of the successful business leaders and future visionaries of Turkey in 2020 by YGA. YGA is a non-profit civil organization that brings together pioneers, leaders and entrepreneurs.

His primary research areas include:

• Optimal design and control of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles

• Control systems and machine learning for energy systems

• Design automation (optimal design of mechatronic, electromagnetic and biomedical systems)

• Supercapacitor-battery systems control optimization

Contact Information

Orkun Karabasoglu
PhD student
Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Lab: 412-268-3606
Email: karabasoglu@cmu.edu
Home Page: www.karabasoglu.com