DR. SERKAN OZBAY

Dr. Ozbay’s areas of expertise include design, analysis and elastic tailoring of composite structures with analytical and finite element based approaches. He has collaborated with Prof. Erian A. Armanios, Director of the NASA Georgia Space Grant Consortium, in research projects involving elastic tailoring of smart composite rotor blades, as a part of Georgia Tech's Rotorcraft Center of Excellence Program. During research at Georgia Tech, Dr. Ozbay developed an optimization process for rotor blades based on simulated annealing technique using finite element based DYMORE multibody dynamics code and VABS cross-sectional analysis code.

He was awarded a graduate research assistantship from 1999 to 2005 and also served as a graduate teaching assistant from 2002 to 2005 in the School of Aerospace Engineering. Dr. Ozbay has authored twelve technical publications, including five peer-reviewed research papers.  He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Helicopter Society (AHS), and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).