Biography
Sabri Tosunoglu served as a tenured faculty at FIU’s Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering for over 20 years. He recently returned to FIU as a research faculty to help as program manager for the US DOE’s CMA-MNuR Consortium. He also teaches courses for the mechanical engineering program. Previously, he worked at the University of Texas at Austin as program manager and chief scientist in the robotics program housed within the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
His research interest lies in the robotics field including design of robotic systems, mobile platforms, humanoid robots, tele-sensation systems, and integration of AI tools in the decision making and control of these systems. He received several grants from the NSF, US DOE, US Air Force and US Army. The current DOE grant at FIU involves the development and use AI-supported cyber-manufacturing techniques in the construction of modular nuclear reactors. While with the University of Texas at Austin, he earlier worked almost 10 years for another DOE grant to develop new robotic systems for the maintenance of modular nuclear reactors and heavily cooperated with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Tosunoglu is an ABET Program Evaluator and served as Undergraduate Program Director for FIU’s mechanical engineering program while organizing several conferences at FIU (Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, FCRAR), and many special sessions at international ASME and IEEE conferences.
Education
- University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, 1986.
- Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, MS in Mechanical Engineering, 1982.
- Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, BS in Mechanical Engineering, 1980.