Seta Bogosyan

Biography

Seta Bogosyan was a program director at NSF Office of Int’l Science and Engineering until 2017 and is now an Expert at the NSF CISE’s CPS Program. She was a full professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), and Istanbul Technical University (ITU), and currently an adjunct research professor at Virginia Tech. She is also the director of ITU CPS Lab, and ITU Center for Advanced Vehicle Technologies-Autonomous Vehicles.
She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical and control engineering from ITU, and conducted her PhD studies at the Center for Robotics in University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), where she also worked as researcher and lecturer between 1987 and 1991.

Her research interests are teleoperation and bilateral control of robots, autonomous CPS systems, and high efficiency control of electric and hybrid vehicles. She has served as PI on many NSF, and other federally funded grants, and co-authored over a hundred journal and conference papers, several book chapters, and two books. She has also served as VP to IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Magazine. Within her role at NSF, she has initiated international collaborations for different programs, and advised many governments in their efforts to establish research funding mechanisms and new NSF counterparts.