BACKGROUND
Serkan Dusmez received the B.S. and M.S. degrees (with highest distinction) from Yildiz Technical University, Turkey, in 2009 and 2011, respectively. Currently, he is a faculty research assistant working under supervision of Prof. Khaligh at the University of Maryland, while pursuing his Ph.D. degree in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, IL. Before joining IIT, he has worked as an embedded system design engineer in a company located in Turkey. He has built four power electronic converters rated between 5kW-20kW. He is the author/co-author of 6 refereed journal/conference papers. His research interests include design of power electronic interfaces for renewable energy sources, integrated power electronic converters for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and fuel cell/battery hybrid systems.