Mathematics Faculty & Staff

2024-2025: Fulbright Research Grantee, Visiting Professor, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes, France
11/2023: Visiting Professor, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes, France
06/2023-12/2023: Visiting Professor, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
2021-Present: Associate Professor, Western Kentucky University, KY, USA
2016-2021: Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Western Kentucky University, KY, USA
2013-2016: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA
2011-2013: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada
2006-2011: Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Iowa State University, IA, USA
2006: M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
2004: M.Sc. in Engineering Mechanics, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
2001: B.Sc. in Mathematical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University

Interdisciplinary Research and Global Collaborations

I integrate mathematics, engineering, material science, control theory, optimization, and computer simulations to study controlled physical phenomena, from purely elastic to smart material systems. My research has practical applications in MEMS, space robotics, energy harvesters, and other structurally-embedded smart material systems. My lab at WKU includes several intelligent graduate and undergraduate students, and I collaborate with prominent scientists worldwide to advance these fields.

Selected Publications in High-Impact and Top-Tier Journals

A.Ö. Özer, R. Emran, A.K. Aydin (2024). "Maximal Decay Rate and Optimal Sensor Feedback Amplifiers for Fast Stabilization of Magnetizable Piezoelectric Beam Equations," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, accepted.

M. Akil, S. Nicaise, A.Ö. Özer, V. Régnier (2024). "Stability Results for Novel Serially-connected Magnetizable Piezoelectric and Elastic Smart-System Designs," Applied Mathematics and Optimization, vol. 89-64, pp. 1–50. DOI: 10.1007/s00245-024-10129-2

A.K. Aydin, A.Ö. Özer (2023). "A novel sensor design for a cantilevered Mead-Marcus-type sandwich beam model by the order-reduction technique," ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, vol. 29-74, 35 pages. DOI: 10.1051/cocv/2023061

A.K. Aydin, A.Ö. Özer, J. Walterman (2023). "A Novel Finite Difference-based Model Reduction and a Sensor Design for a Multilayer Smart Beam with Arbitrary Number of Layers," IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 7, pp. 1548-1553. DOI: 10.1109/LCSYS.2023.3274698

B. Feng, A.Ö. Özer (2023). "Stability results for piezoelectric beams with a long-range memory in the boundary," Mathematische Nachrichten, vol. 296-9, pp. 4206-4235. DOI: 10.1002/mana.202100583

B. Feng, A.Ö. Özer (2023). "Long-time behavior of a nonlinearly damped Rao-Nakra sandwich beam," Applied Mathematics and Optimization, vol. 87, Article 19 (52 pages). DOI: 10.1007/s00245-022-09931-7

S. El Alaoui, A.Ö. Özer, M. Ouzahra (2023). "Boundary Feedback Stabilization of Nonlinear Piezoelectric Extensible Beams," Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik (ZAMP), vol. 74, Article 15. DOI: 10.1007/s00033-022-01908-4

G. Liu, A.Ö. Özer, M. Wang (2022). "Longtime dynamics for a novel piezoelectric beam model with creep and thermo-viscoelastic effects," Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, vol. 68, 103666. DOI: 10.1016/j.nonrwa.2022.103666

M. M. Freitas, A.J.A. Ramos, A.Ö. Özer, D. S. Almeida Jr., D. Martins (2021). "Long time dynamics for fractional piezoelectric system with magnetic and thermal effects," Journal of Differential Equations, vol. 280, pp. 891-927. DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2021.01.030

A.Ö. Özer, W. Horner (2021). "Uniform boundary observability of Finite Difference approximations of non-compactly-coupled piezoelectric beam equations," Applicable Analysis, vol. 101-5, pp. 1571-1592. DOI: 10.1080/00036811.2021.1936508

(More publications are available upon request or on the website.)

USA Fulbright Research Grantee to conduct research in France (2024-2025)

$15,851 (July 2023-September 2024): Western Kentucky University-RCAP - Investigation of Serially-connected Systems

$4,000 (January 2023-May 2024): Western Kentucky University-FUSE - The Transmission Problem of Piezoelectric Layers

$21,272 (September 2022-July 2023): KY NSF EPSCoR-URE - Developing a Novel Computational Framework of Piezoelectric Transducers for Contactless Energy Harvesting

$68,403 (August 2021-July 2022): KY NSF EPSCoR-RIA - Robust-filtering of Sensor Data to Optimize Feedback-controlled Software on Structurally-embedded Smart-material Systems

$19,705 (November 2019-June 2020): KY NSF EPSCoR-URE - Developing a Novel Computational Toolbox for Structurally-embedded Smart Material Systems by Feedback Controllers

$15,718 (June 2019-December 2020): Western Kentucky University-RCAP - Developing a Novel Approximation Toolbox for the Control of Vibrating Smart Material Systems

$2,622 (Spring 2020): Western Kentucky University-QTAG - Investigation of Student Learning with Short Instructional Calculus Videos Enriched by Wolfram Mathematica

$3,000 (January 2020-April 2021): Western Kentucky University-FUSE - Stable Approximations of the PDE Model for Controlling Unwanted Vibrations on a Layered Piezoelectric Laminate

$3,000 (January 2019-April 2020): Western Kentucky University-FUSE - A Numerical Investigation for the Vibration Control of Piezoelectric Devices

I am committed to making Calculus and Differential Equations engaging and accessible through interactive, problem-oriented teaching methods. I utilize various educational tools, such as Wolfram Demonstrations, Desmos, and Geogebra, to enhance students' understanding of complex mathematical concepts through visualization and interactive learning.

I have created over 1,000 instructional videos for Calculus and Differential Equations, garnering over 1M views on my YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/mathbydrozz. My channel has accumulated a watch time of approximately 20,000 hours, demonstrating my content's widespread engagement and educational impact. The channel has also gained over 900 subscribers and attracts viewers from every continent, reflecting its growing popularity among students worldwide.

Some of my instructional videos have been incorporated into Cengage's e-book, "Differential Equations with Boundary-Value Problems" by D. Zill, which is available through WebAssign and is utilized by students in over 165 countries, further extending the global reach of my teaching resources.