Education / Training

09/2005 - 09/2006
Post-doctoral fellow at HeuDiaSyC (www.hds.utc.fr) at Universite de Tecnologie de Compiegne, Compiegne, France (gratefully acknowledging Chateaubriand Bourse of the French government).

Research Proposal Title: Qualitative Aspects of the Dynamics of Interconnected Systems Subject to Time Delays, Applications to Transportation & Biological Systems

Post-doctoral advisor: Professor Silviu-Iulian Niculescu (currently at Laboratoire des Signaux et Systemes, CNRS-Supelec)

 

08/2002 - 08/2005
PhD (cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering, Dynamic Systems & Control, at University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Thesis title: Cluster Treatment of Characteristic Roots, CTCR, A Unique Methodology for the Complete Stability Robustness Analysis of Linear Time Invariant Multiple Time Delay Systems Against Delay Uncertainties

Dissertation advisor: Professor Nejat Olgac

 

08/2000 - 08/2002
MSc (cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering, Dynamic Systems & Control, at University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Thesis title: A Unique Treatment of Time Delay System Stability: The Direct Method

Thesis advisor: Professor Nejat Olgac

 

10/1996 - 07/2000
BSc in Mechanical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University (ITU). Ranked 3rd in graduating class

Senior Design Project: Experimental study on measuring the dry friction coefficient between the contact surfaces of metal couples
 
 

Awards & Honors


Recipient of the Martin Essigman Outstanding Teaching Award of the College of Engineering, 2011.


Nominated by students for the Excellence for Teaching Award of Northeastern University, 2011.

 

Sipahi’s review article made the cover of IEEE Control Systems Magazine (February 2011). http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=5687819

 

Sipahi’s research and review article in IEEE Control System Magazine was featured on the main website of Northeastern University (February 2011). Full coverage at http://www.northeastern.edu/news/stories/2011/02/delays.html

 
Sipahi’s PhD student Mr. Ismail I. Delice received the Best Presentation in Session Award at the American Control Conference, 2010, Baltimore, MD.

 

Sipahi’s PhD student Mr. Ismail I. Delice was awarded the Ferretti Award of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering for Mr. Delice’s outstanding academic performance, 2010.

 

ASME Certificate of Appreciation was given to Sipahi in October 2009 by the chair Professor Satish Nair of the Dynamic Systems and Control Division for service as Newsletter Associate Editor in 2007-2009.

ASME Certificate of Appreciation was given to Sipahi in October 2009 from Design Engineering Division, Technical Committee on Multibody Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics for his symposium organization at the 7th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics and Control held in San Diego, CA in September 2009.

 

Author of the articles receiving Best Presentation Award at American Control Conferences held in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010.

 

Recipient of Chateaubriand Scholarship for post-doctoral research in France. Awarded by the French Government as a result of research proposal competition among Ph.D. graduates in the United States, 2005.

 

Graduate School Spring 2005 Doctoral Fellowship, University of Connecticut.

 

Made the science news in newspapers in Turkey about the implications of Ph.D. Dissertation, 2004.

 

Mechanical Engineering Department Summer Fellowship, University of Connecticut, 2004.

 

Best Master’s Thesis Award of School of Engineering, University of Connecticut, 2003.

 

Pre-doctoral student fellowship award, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Connecticut, 2002 and 2003.

 

Best Student Paper Award from Dynamic Systems and Control Division at ASME
IMECE Conference, New Orleans, LA, 2002.

 

Best Master’s student award, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Connecticut, 2002.

 
Ranked 3rd out of 302 graduating students in the Graduating Class, Mechanical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, 2000.