Dr. Burak Ozpineci, section head for the Vehicle and Mobility System Research Section at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will speak about his research during the institute’s monthly webinar series on Wednesday, May 12. The talk is titled, “Electric Drive Component Technologies for Electric Vehicles.”

Biography

Burak Ozpineci received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Orta Dogu Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1994, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. In 2001, he joined the Post-Master’s Program with Power Electronics and Electric Machinery Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Knoxville, TN, USA. He became a Full Time Research and Development Staff Member in 2002, the Group Leader of the Power and Energy Systems Group in 2008, and Power Electronics and Electric Machinery Group in 2011. Presently, he is serving as the Section Head for the Vehicle and Mobility System Research Section.