Ümit Özgüner, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Transportation Research Center (TRC) Inc. Chair on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
Director, Crash Imminent Safety (CrIS) University Transportation Center (UTC)


Areas of Interest
Contact Information

Design of large scale systems and intelligent control
Automotive control and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)

2015 Neil Avenue
205 Dreese Lab
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210

ECE Office: 614-292-5940
CrIS UTC Office: 614-292-5141
Fax: 614-292-7596
Email: ozguner.1@osu.edu


Bio

Ümit Özgüner received his PhD degree from University of Illinois and has worked at IBM Research (Yorktown Heights), Istanbul Technical University and The Ohio State University. He has spent sabbaticals at Ohio Aerospace Institute and Ford Motor Company. He is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at OSU and holds the title of TRC Inc. Chair on ITS. Starting in October 2013, he is the Director of the OSU Crash Imminent Safety University Transportation Center.

Professor Ozguner’s research interests are in large scale systems, decentralized control, intelligent transportation systems and autonomous vehicles. He has over 400 publications and has advised over 25 students on their PhD studies.

Professor Ozguner has been the General or Program Chair of many International Conferences in control and ITS. He was the founding President of the IEEE ITS Council which is now the IEEE ITS Society. Teams that he led have participated successfully in various autonomous driving challenges including Demo’97 and all the DARPA Grand and Urban Challenges.

His research has been supported by NSF, AFOSR, DARPA NASA and numerous industries including Ford, Honda Denso.Professor Ozguner is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Courses Taught

ECE 3050 Signals and Systems
ECE 5551 State-Space Control
ECE5553 Autonomy in Vehicles
ECE 5750 Linear Systems Theory
ECE 5759 Optimization for Static and Dynamic Systems
ECE 757 Control Lab
ECE 7855 Large Scale and Cyber-Physical Systems


Research Labs and Centers

The Crash Imminent Safety (CrIS) University Transportation Center (UTC)

The Control and Intelligent Transportations Research Lab


Publications

Professor Özgüner, has over 400 publications in journals, conference proceedings and as book chapters.

Ümit Özgüner’s Publications through Dec 2012

2013 Control and Intelligent Transportation Research (CITR) Lab Publications

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Ümit Özgüner’s CV

Ümit Özgüner’s Publications through Dec 2012

2013 Control and Intelligent Transportation Research (CITR) Lab Publications