Dr Ibrahim Beklan Kucukdemiral
Reader
Department of EngineeringDr Ibrahim Kucukdemiral is a Reader in the Department of Engineering in the School of Science and Engineering at Glasgow Caledonian University.
He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in the UK, a member of IFAC, and a senior member of IEEE. He is currently the Vice Chair of the IEEE Control Systems Chapter of the UK and Ireland Section and also holds the position of Conference Coordinator Officer for the IEEE UK and Ireland Section.
In addition, he chairs the Industrial Advisory Board for the School's Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Departments and leads the Robotics for the Common Good research group.
Dr Kucukdemiral received his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Yildiz Technical University (YTU) in Istanbul in 1997, 1999 and 2002 respectively. He worked as a research and teaching assistant at YTU from 1998 to 2004, and subsequently held the positions of assistant professor (2004-2010), associate professor (2010-2015), and full professor (2015-2017) at the same university.
Dr Kucukdemiral's research interests cover a wide range of topics, including robust, optimal and adaptive control systems, robotics, embedded systems, electronic circuits and devices, mechatronics, optimisation, and some automotive applications of control theory.