• Office Address: Min H. Kao Building, Room 401
• Phone: 865-974-3461
• Fax: 865-974-5483
• E-mail: ozpineci@utk.edu

Education

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2002
• MS in Electrical Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1998
• BS from Orta Dogu Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Burak Ozpineci is the group leader of the of the Power Electronics and Electric Machinery Research Group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received a MS and PhD from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in electrical engineering in 1998 and 2002, respectively, and his BS degree from the Orta Dogu Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He joined the Post-Masters Program with the Power Electronics and Electric Machinery Research Group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2001 and became a full time staff member at the PEEMRG in 2002.

Ozpineci is the Chair of the IEEE PELS Rectifiers and Inverters Technical Committee and was Transactions Review Chairman of the IEEE Industry Applications Society Industrial Power Converter Committee, and He also has a Joint Faculty Associate Professor position with The University of Tennessee. His research interests include system-level impact of SiC power devices, multilevel inverters, power converters for distributed energy resources and hybrid electric vehicles, and intelligent control applications for power converters.

• system-level impact of SiC power devices
• multilevel inverters
• power converters for distributed energy resources and hybrid electric vehicles
• intelligent control applications for power converters