CURRICULUM VITAE

1.     Name Surname                              :  Ferhun Yorgancıoğlu

2.      Date of Birth                                  :  15/11/1979

3.      Title                                                 :  Dr.

4.      Education:

5.                 Academic Titles

Date on which Full Professorship is received:  1981 Aegean University Fac. of Fine arts.

6.      Graduate Theses Supervised

6.1. MSc theses

6.2. PhD dissertations

7.      Publications

7.1 Articles published in peer reviewed international journals

1. Ferhun Yorgancıoğlu and Hasan Kömürcügil, “Decoupled Sliding-Mode Controller Based on Time-Varying Sliding Surfaces for Fourth-Order Systems”, Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 37, No. 10, pp. 6764-6774, October 2010. [SCI-E]

2. Ferhun Yorgancıoğlu and Hasan Kömürcügil, “Single-Input Fuzzy-Like Moving Sliding Surface Approach to the Sliding Mode Control”, Electrical Engineering, Vol. 90, No. 3, pp. 199-207, February 2008. [SCI]

7.2 Papers published in proceedings of refereed international or national conferences

1. Ferhun Yorgancıoğlu and Hasan Kömürcügil, “Fuzzy Moving Sliding Surface Approach to the Hierarchical Sliding Mode Control”, in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON΄07, Taipei, TAIWAN, pp. 659-664, November 2007.

2. Ferhun Yorgancıoğlu and Hasan Kömürcügil, “Fuzzy Sliding-Mode Control for Second-Order Nonlinear Systems”, in Proceedings of the 4th FAE International Symposium, Gemikonağı, Lefke, North Cyprus, via Mersin 10, TURKEY, pp. 613-619, November 2006.

3. Hasan Kömürcügil and Ferhun Yorgancıoğlu, “Rule Base Reduction Method for Fuzzy PI Controllers Based on Direct Combination of Input Variables”, in Proceedings of the 11th Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks, TAINN΄02, İstanbul, TURKEY, pp. 21-26, June 2002.

7.3 Publications

7.3.1: Theses

1. “Fuzzy-Like Control Strategies Based on Single-Input Moving Sliding Surfaces”, by Ferhun Yorgancıoğlu, PhD Dissertation, Eastern Mediterranean University, October 2008.

2. “Design of Single-Input Fuzzy Logic Controllers Based on Rule Base Reduction Methods”, by Ferhun Yorgancıoğlu, MSc Thesis, Eastern Mediterranean University, July 2002.

7.3.2: Books

7.4. Other publications

8.      Administrative designations

Advisory to around 30 undergraduate students per semester during the seven years of teaching assistantships in Computer Engineering Department of the Eastern Mediterranean University.

Coordination for technical elective course registrations of graduating status students for one academic year in Computer Engineering Department of the Eastern Mediterranean University.

Responsible for the preparation of departmental courses time-tables for one academic year together with one assistant friend for Computer Engineering Department (with approximately 1000 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at that time) of the Eastern Mediterranean University having 24 full-time lecturers and 30 full-time teaching assistants with around 30 different undergraduate and graduate courses.

9.  Awards and grants

Ranked third in graduation with high-honors in the Department of Computer Engineering at Eastern Mediterranean University.

Received high-honor certificates for six semesters and honor certificates for two semesters from the Department of Computer Engineering at Eastern Mediterranean University.

Ranked personal second and as a substitute team-member first in a mathematic competition held by the             Eastern Mediterranean University around lyceum-wide students in Northern Cyprus.

9.1. Project competitions

9.2. Scholarship

A receiver of full tuition fee scholarship for complete undergraduate studies which was given to only one student due to scoring the highest point in university entrance examination for TRNC students held by the Eastern Mediterranean University.

During the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. studies was a receiver of full tuition fee scholarship for seven consecutive years of full-time teaching assistantship in Computer Engineering Department of the Eastern Mediterranean University.

10.  Fill the table below for the courses you have taught over the last ten academic years

11. Languages

Turkish (mother tongue), English (fluent), Greek (beginner), and German (beginner).