Burak Sarsılmaz

Education

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of South Florida, 2020
• M.A., Mathematics, University of South Florida, 2020
• M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 2016
• B.S., Aerospace Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 2013

Past And Present Positions

• 8/2022-present: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA
• 9/2020-7/2022: Postdoctoral Scholar, The William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
• 8/2016-8/2020: Research/Teaching Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
• 1/2014-7/2016: Flight Control Systems Design Engineer, Turkish Aerospace Inc. (TAI), Ankara, Turkey

Research Interests

• Distributed Control of Multi-Agent Systems
• Geometric Approach and Optimization-Based Control Synthesis
• Robust Adaptive Control of Uncertain Dynamical Systems
• Trajectory Optimization for Resilient Trajectory Planning

Current Graduate and Undergraduate Students

Kursad Metehan Gul has been a doctoral student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since January 2024. He works on distributed control of multi-agent systems with different levels of objectives and their applications to networked multi-vehicle systems.
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Amin Taghieh has been a doctoral student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since January 2024. He works on data-driven distributed control of multi-agent systems subject to practical considerations, such as uncertainties, spatial constraints, and network imperfections.
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Carson DeMoux is a sophomore in Computer Engineering. He has been a Grand Challenges Scholars Program scholar since January 2024.