Prof. İRFAN ALAN

Biography

Irfan Alan was born in Istanbul in 1962, is married and has 3 children.  His B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees are from Istanbul Technical University in Electrical Engineering in 1983 and 1986 respectively. His Ph.D. degree is from University of Wisconsin-Madison in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1993.  He carried out his Ph.D. and post doc studies at WEMPEC, UW-Madison.  He worked for various NASA projects at different capacities.  His field of interests are Electrical Machine Drives, Power Electronic Converters, Induction Heating, Switched Mode Power Supplies, Electrical Vehicle Battery Charging Systems, Inductive Charging, Energy Storage and Smart Grid Systems.

He has served as an academician at the Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department at Ege University for 16 years in various Prof. capacities ending with full Professorship.  He has taught many undergraduate and graduate level courses, supervised many M.Sc. and Ph.D. students, served in various international and national projects as either principal investigator or project manager.  He has many international and national scientific journal and conference papers.  He has been either a project referee or an auditor for many nationally funded projects.  He has served as an editor, co-editor or referee for many international and national journals or conference papers.  He holds a patent, has a pending patent application, and a beneficial model.   

Prof. Alan was assigned as a Vice Rector to Abdullah Gul University (AGU) in 2011. He has served as an Interim Rector at AGU for 6 months between 21^st of June 2012 and 15^th of Jan 2013.  Since then, he is a Vice Rector at AGU responsible for Administrative and Financial Affairs serving the university in many different capacities.  He is currently the Director of Graduate School of Engineering and Sciences, senate and executive committee member at AGU.  He has served as interim Dean for many Faculties and as school director for School of Foreign Languages at AGU.  He served many years as a member of Inter-University Council (ÜAK) of Turkey.  He is a member of Chamber of Electrical Engineers in Turkey.