Research Highlights

ÖZER TO REPRESENT WKU AS FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR, RESEARCH FUELED BY EPSCOR SEED FUNDING

“I thought that it was a long shot for me. I was super shocked and honored.” Professor Özkan Özer, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Western Kentucky University (WKU), will represent his team of mathematics scholars, WKU, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky as a Fulbright U.S. Research Scholar in northern France starting this fall. According to fulbrightscholars.org, “The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers over 400 awards in more than 135 countries for U.S. citizens to teach, conduct research, and carry out professional projects around the world.” Read the rest of the news here.

Research Interests 



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Prof. Ozer's research, presented at the IEEE CDC 2023, significantly contributes to the overarching themes of decision making and automatic control. By sharing our findings on the global stage, my research group solidifies the importance of their model reduction and PDE techniques in shaping the future of systems and control of smart material systems. 

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Visiting the University Polytechnic Hauts-De-France and The CERAMATHS, Laboratory of Ceramic Materials and Mathematics, as part of my sabbatical leave (November 1-15).

Visiting FAU-Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany as part of my sabbatical leave (June 15-December 15).

Alexander von Humboldt Professorship

Total Sponsored Projects: $153,560

Awarded amount: $15,851 (July 2023-September 2024) (Western Kentucky University-RCAP)

Investigation of Serially-connected Systems

Awarded amount: $4,000 (January 2023-May 2024) (Western Kentucky University-FUSE) 

The Transmission Problem of Piezoelectric Layers

Awarded amount: $21,272 (September 2022-July 2023) (KY NSF EPSCoR-URE)

Developing a Novel Computational Framework of Piezoelectric Transducers for Contactless Energy Harvesting

Awarded amount: $68,403 (August 2021-July 2022) (KY NSF EPSCoR-RA)

Robust-filtering of sensor data to optimize feedback-controlled software on structurally-embedded smart-material systems

Awarded amount: $19,705 (November 2020-June 2021) (KY NSF EPSCoR-URE)

Developing a novel computational toolbox for the structurally-embedded smart material systems by feedback controllers

Awarded amount: $15,718  (June 2019-December 2020 )  (Western Kentucky University-RCAP)

Developing a novel approximation toolbox for the control of a large class of vibrating smart material systems

Awarded amount: $2,622 (Spring 2020) (Western Kentucky University-QTAG)

Investigation of Student Learning with Short Instructional Calculus Videos enriched by Wolfram Mathematica

Awarded amount: $3,000 (January 2020-April 2021) (Western Kentucky University-FUSE) 

Stable approximations of the PDE model for controlling unwanted vibrations on a layered piezoelectric laminate

Awarded amount: $3,000 (January 2019-April 2020) (Western Kentucky University-FUSE)

A numerical investigation for the vibration control of piezoelectric devices

I have served as a grant review panelist for various programs at NSF, NASA, and DFG (German NSF). Since 2010, I have also served as a referee for over 250 manuscripts for a wide spectrum of applied mathematics and engineering journals.