Ufuk Topcu - Biography

Education

• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, 2008
  University of California, Berkeley
  Advisor: Andy Packard
  Thesis: Quantitative Local Analysis of Nonlinear Systems
  

• M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 2005
  University of California, Irvine
  Advisor: Kenneth Mease
  Thesis: Lyapunov Exponents and Vectors for Determining the Geometric Structure of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
  

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2003
  Bogazici University

Employment

• Postdoctoral Scholar, 2008-present
  Control and Dynamical Systems & Center for Advanced Computing Research,
  California Institute of Technology
  Supervisor: Richard Murray
  

• Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley, 2005-2008
  

• Teaching Assistant, University of California, Berkeley, 2007-2008
  

• Intern, Honeywell, 2007
  

• Research Assistant, University of California, Irvine, 2003-2005