R&D Staff
Sikorsky Aircraft
Emre Gurpinar (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2009, the M.Sc. degree University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K., in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K., in 2017, all in electrical engineering.
Between 2010 and 2014, he worked at University of Reading, UK and GE Power Conversion, UK as R&D Power Electronics Engineer respectively. Between May 2017 and March 2022, he was a member of Power Electronics and Electric Machinery Research Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Knoxville, TN, USA, as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and a R&D Staff. In March 2022, he joined Sikorsky Innovations, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, CT, USA as Senior Staff.
His research interests include wide-bandgap power devices, high frequency converters, packaging and integration of power electronic systems, and electrified transportation including electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOLs). He was the recipient of the Outstanding Paper Award in ASME InterPACK Conference in 2019.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
8:30 AM – 12:00 PM PST