Burak Sarsılmaz

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Assistant Professor


Burak Sarsilmaz

Contact Information

Office Location: EL 160
Phone: 435-797-1535
Email: burak.sarsilmaz@usu.edu
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Educational Background

MA, Mathematics, University of South Florida, 2020
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of South Florida, 2020
MS, Aerospace Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 2016
BS, Aerospace Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 2013

Biography

Burak Sarsılmaz is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Before joining Utah State University, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar within the Autonomous Controls Laboratory at the University of Washington. Burak received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and M.A. in Mathematics from the University of South Florida. He received his M.S. and B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Middle East Technical University. From 2014 to 2016, he was a flight control systems engineer in the T625 multirole helicopter project at Turkish Aerospace Industries.

Teaching Interests

Systems, Control, and Optimization

Research Interests

Distributed Control of Multi-Agent Systems, Trajectory Optimization for Resilient Trajectory Planning, Robust Adaptive Control of Uncertain Dynamical Systems, Data-Driven Control, and Optimization-Based Closed-Loop Control for Systems Subject to Input and Spatiotemporal Constraints

    Publications | Book Chapters

  • Sarsılmaz, S.B, Koru, A.T, Yucelen, T., Acikmese, B., (2024). A Distributed Adaptive Control Approach to Cooperative Output Regulation of a Class of Heterogeneous Uncertain Multi-agent Systems: Control of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles, A. L’Afflitto, G. Inalhan, and H.-S. Shin, Eds. Springer

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

  • Tran, D., Yucelen, T., Kurtoglu, D., Sarsılmaz, S.B, (2025). Assignment and Distributed Control of Laplacian Null Space in Multiagent Systems. International Journal of Control
  • Yucelen, T., Sarsılmaz, S.B, Yildirim, E., (2025). Symbiotic Control of Uncertain Dynamical Systems: Harnessing Synergy between Fixed-Gain Control and Adaptive Learning Architectures. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • Harris, M., Sarsılmaz, S.B, (2025). LMI-Based Design for Regional Fixed-Time Nonlinear Control with Settling Time and Control Constraints. Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Koru, A.T, Sarsılmaz, S.B, Kartal, Y., Lewis, F.L, Yucelen, T., Muse, J.A, Davoudi, A., (2024). An Internal Model Approach to Cooperative Output Regulation over Switching Graphs. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • Koru, A.T, Ramirez, A., Sarsılmaz, S.B, Sipahi, R., Yucelen, T., Dogan, K.M, (2024). Containment Control of Multi-Human Multi-Agent Systems under Time Delays. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
  • Sarsılmaz, S.B, Li, S., Acikmese, B., (2024). Revisiting Disturbance Decoupling with an Optimization Perspective. Annual Reviews in Control
  • Echigo, K., Hayner, C., Mittal, A., Sarsılmaz, S.B, Harris, M.W, Acikmese, B., (2023). Linear Programming Approach to Relative-Orbit Control with Element-wise Quantized Control. IEEE Control Systems Letters
  • Koru, A.T, Sarsılmaz, S.B, Yucelen, T., Muse, J.A, Lewis, F.L, Acikmese, B., (2023). Regional Eigenvalue Assignment in Cooperative Linear Output Regulation. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • Koru, A.T, Sarsılmaz, S.B, Yucelen, T., Johnson, E.N, (2021). Cooperative Output Regulation of Heterogeneous Multiagent Systems: A Global Distributed Control Synthesis Approach. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • Sarsılmaz, S.B, Yucelen, T., (2021). Distributed Control of Linear Multiagent Systems with Global and Local Objectives. Systems & Control Letters
  • Sarsılmaz, S.B, Yucelen, T., (2021). A Distributed Control Approach for Heterogeneous Linear Multiagent Systems. International Journal of Control
  • Tran, D., Yucelen, T., Sarsılmaz, S.B, (2021). Finite-time Control of Multiagent Networks as Systems with Time Transformation and Separation Principle. Control Engineering Practice
  • Yildirim, E., Sarsılmaz, S.B, Koru, A.T, Yucelen, T., (2020). On Control of Multiagent Systems in the Presence of a Misbehaving Agent. IEEE Control Systems Letters
  • Tran, D., Yucelen, T., Sarsılmaz, S.B, Jagannathan, S., (2017). Distributed Input and State Estimation Using Local Information in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks. Frontiers in Robotics and AI

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Other

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Teaching

ECE, MAE 5310, 5310 - Control Systems, Fall 2025
ECE 6040 - Convex Optimization, Spring 2025
ECE 5310 - Control Systems, Fall 2024
ECE 5310 - Control Systems, Fall 2024
ECE 5310 - Control Systems, Fall 2024
ECE 5310 - Control Systems, Fall 2024
MAE 5310 - Dynamic Systems and Controls, Fall 2024
MAE 5310 - Dynamic Systems and Controls, Fall 2024
MAE 5310 - Dynamic Systems and Controls, Fall 2024
MAE 5310 - Dynamic Systems and Controls, Fall 2024
ECE 6040 - Convex Optimization, Spring 2024
ECE 6930 - Special Topics in Electrical Engineering, Spring 2024
ECE, MAE 5310 - Control Systems, Fall 2023
ECE 6930 - Special Topics in Electrical Engineering, Spring 2023
ECE, MAE 5310 - Dynamic Systems and Controls, Fall 2022

Graduate Students Mentored

Aws Abdulsalam Majm Alsmele, Electrical & Computer Engr, January 2026
Benjamin Andrew Shunn, Electrical & Computer Engr, June 2025
Akalu Desta Teklu, Electrical & Computer Engr, January 2025
Kursad Metehan Gul, Electrical & Computer Engr, January 2024