After earning his MS in Electrical Engineering at ITÜ, Özgüner received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and worked at IBM Research (Yorktown Heights), ITU, and Ohio State. He spent sabbaticals at Ohio Aerospace Institute and Ford Motor Company.
Özgüner’s research interests were in large-scale systems, decentralized control, intelligent transportation systems, and autonomous vehicles. He had over 400 publications and had advised over 25 students on their Ph.D. studies.
He won the 2021 IEEE ITSS Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Lifetime Achievement Award.
Özgüner was the founding President of the IEEE ITS Council, which turned into the IEEE ITS Society in 2005.
He had been active as Faculty Emeritus with Ohio State’s Electrical and Computer Engineering program and was the Transportation Research Center Chair in Intelligent Transportation Systems. He was also Director of the Crash Imminent Safety University Transportation Center.
IEEE highlighted Özgüner for his “pioneering contributions in research on intelligent vehicles and the founding of the IEEE ITS Society.”
The mission of ITSS is to advance the theoretical, experimental, and operational aspects of electrical engineering and information technologies as applied to intelligent transportation systems actively developing and improving transportation systems of all kinds.
Prof. Özgüner's Publications: Book: Autonomous Ground Vehicles, 2012
ResearchGate.net: 495 Papers & Articles, 16,715 Citations
IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ITSS: Intelligent Transportation Systems Society