Biography

Isik Ilber Sirmatel received the B.Sc. degrees in mechanical and control engineering from the Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, and the M.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in the Urban Transport Systems Laboratory, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. His research interests include automatic control, optimization, and model predictive control, with applications to control of transportation systems.