Bilal Akin
{{Short description|Electrical engineer at The University of Texas at Dallas}}
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Bilal Akin is an electrical engineer and faculty member of The University of Texas at Dallas. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and is a fellow of the IEEE.
Education
Akin studied at the Middle East Technical University in Turkey, where he obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in science.{{Cite web |title=Bilal Akin |url=https://ece.utdallas.edu/staff/bilal-akin/ |access-date=3 September 2023 |website=Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas}} In 2007, he received his PhD in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University.{{Cite web |date=28 June 2023 |title=Bilal Akin |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37265639900 |access-date=3 September 2023 |website=IEEE Xplore}}
Career
Akin has been a faculty member of The University of Texas at Dallas since 2012, serving as director of their Power Electronics and Drives Lab. He is a vehicular electronics and systems area editor for the IEEE journal Transactions on Vehicular Technology.{{Cite web |title=Editors |url=http://www.it.is.tohoku.ac.jp/~tvt/vtjournal/editors.html |access-date=3 September 2023 |website=Transactions on Vehicular Technology}} Akin previously worked in research and development with Toshiba (2005–2008) and Texas Instruments (2008–2012).
Honours
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award no.1454311 (2015){{Cite web |date=2015 |title=NSF Engineering CAREER Class of 2015 |url=https://www.nsf.gov/eng/multimedia/engineering-career-yearbook-2015.pdf |access-date=3 September 2023 |website=National Science Foundation}}
- Jonsson School Faculty Research Award (2015){{Cite web |title=Jonsson School Faculty Research Awards |url=https://websites.utdallas.edu/jonssonADR/faculty-awards/ |access-date=3 September 2023 |website=The University of Texas at Dallas}}
- Transactions on Vehicular Technology Top Editor Award (2016){{Cite journal |last=Fang |first=Yuguang |date=February 2016 |title=Message From the Editor-in-Chief |url=http://www.it.is.tohoku.ac.jp/~tvt/tvt-editorial-Feb2016.pdf |journal= IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology|volume=65 |issue=2 |page=497 |doi=10.1109/TVT.2016.2519618}}
- IEEE Industry Applications Society Society Prize Paper Award (2018){{Cite web |date=2018 |title=Bilal Akin and Team Receive IEEE Prize Paper Award |url=https://engineering.utdallas.edu/news/archive/2018-summer/bilal-akin-and-team-receive-ieee-prize-paper-award/ |access-date=3 September 2023 |website=Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas}}
- Jonsson School Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award (2019){{Cite web |date=2019 |title=Jonsson School Recognizes Staff, Faculty and Researchers at Annual Ceremony |url=https://engineering.utdallas.edu/news/archive/2019-summer/jonsson-school-recognizes-staff-faculty-and-researchers-at-annual-ceremony/ |access-date=3 September 2023 |website=Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas}}
- Fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to control, diagnosis and condition monitoring of AC drives" (2023){{Cite web |date=2023 |title=2023 NEWLY ELEVATED FELLOWS |url=https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2023-newly-elevated-fellows.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130163052/https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2023-newly-elevated-fellows.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 November 2022 |access-date=3 September 2023 |website=IEEE}}
References
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External links
- [https://personal.utdallas.edu/~bilal.akin/ Personal page] at The University of Texas at Dallas
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