Nazli E. Kahveci

Powertrain Controls Research & Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Company, 2101 Village Road, Research & Innovation Center 2036, Dearborn, MI 48121-2053, USA

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Nazli E. Kahveci received the B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey in 2002, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles in 2004 and 2007, respectively. She was a Research Assistant with the Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies from 2002 to 2007, and joined Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI in 2008. She had summer internship experiences in flight controls with NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA in 2004 and the Boeing Company, Everett, WA in 2006. Her research interests include robust adaptive control design techniques, input constrained systems, flight path optimization for unmanned aerial vehicles, and automotive powertrain controls.

Dr. Kahveci was the recipient of the 2006 Boeing Satellite Systems Platinum Scholarship, the 2007 Certificate of Merit Recognition granted by the USC Women in Science and Engineering, and the 2007-2008 Academic Year Special Award presented by the USC Graduate School and the Center for Excellence in Teaching. She has served as a Program Committee Member and Associate Editor for the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposiums since 2007, and as an invited panelist and reviewer for the National Science Foundation since 2008. Dr. Kahveci is also a member of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Technical Committee, and the IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on System Identification and Adaptive Control.