Biography
Dr. Kürkçü is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Before joining SCU as a faculty, he was a Research Scholar at UC Berkeley for two years and held several positions at Hacettepe University (Assist. Prof.), TOBB ETU, and Aselsan Inc. (Senior Control System Design Engineer).
He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at TOBB University of Economics and Technology in 2019 and 2015 respectively. He received a B.S. degree from the Istanbul Technical University in 2010.
He received the IEEE Turkey Ph.D. Thesis Award in 2020. He is an Associate Editor of TIMC, Measurement and Control, and the Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Education
Ph.D., TOBB ETU, Turkiye, 2019
M.S., TOBB ETU, Turkiye, 2015
B.S., Istanbul Technical University, Turkiye, 2010
Recent Publications
Yang, W., Kurkcu, B., Tomizuka, M., “Approximated Modeling and Optimal Design for a Soft Pneumatic Actuator Considering the Force/Torque and System Controllability” ASME JMD, 2024. doi: 10.1115/1.4065522
Efe, M. O., Kurkcu, B., Kasnakoglu, C., Zaharuddin, M., Zhijie, L.,“Masked Multiple State Space Model Identification Using FRD and Evolutionary Optimization” IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics, 2024. doi:10.1109/TII.2024.3388605
Efe, M. O., Kurkcu, B., Kasnakoglu, C., Zaharuddin, M., Zhijie, L.,“Switched Neural Networks for Simultaneous Learning of Multiple Functions” IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2024. doi:10.1109/TETCI.2024.3369981
Efe, M. O., Kurkcu, B., Kasnakoglu, C., Zaharuddin, M., Zhijie, L.,“A Modified Levenberg Marquardt Algorithm for Simultaneous Learning of Multiple Datasets” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 2024. doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2023.3335140
Bayrak, A., Kurkcu, B., Efe, M. O., “A New Adaptation Scheme for Disturbance/Uncertainty Estimator Based Control” IEEE Access, 2022. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3209346
Kurkcu, B., Kasnakoglu, C., Efe, M. O., Su, R., “On the Existence of Equivalent-Input-Disturbance and Multiple Integral Augmentation via H-Infinity Synthesis for Unmatched Systems” ISA Transactions,2022. doi:10.1016/j.isatra.2022.04.044
Kurkcu, B., Kasnakoglu, C. “Robust Autopilot Design Based on a Disturbance/Uncertainty/Coupling Estimator.” IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology, 2018. doi:10.1109/TCST.2018.2859179
Kurkcu, B., Kasnakoglu and C., Efe, M. O. “Disturbance/Uncertainty Estimator Based Robust Control of Non-minimum Phase Systems.” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2018. doi:10.1109/TMECH.2018.2835658
Kurkcu, B. and Kasnakoglu. “Robust Temperature Control of a Thermoelectric Cooler via μ-Synthesis” Journal of Electronic Materials, 2018. doi:10.1007/s11664-018-6104-1
Kurkcu, B., Kasnakoglu, C. and Efe, M. O. “Disturbance/Uncertainty Estimator Based Integral Sliding Mode Control.” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2018. doi:10.1109/TAC.2018.2808440
