Curriculum Vitae

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Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D. in Business Analytics
    • University of Iowa, Tippie College of Business, Iowa City, IA
    • Advisor: Prof. Ann Campbell, Prof. Ibrahim Demir, Prof. Ray de Matta
    • Dissertation: Topics in Humanitarian Fuel Distribution and Flood Mitigation
      • My research focuses on major logistical problems related to natural disasters and the development of improved preparedness methods. Specifically, I work to optimize approaches for storing and distributing fuel after a disaster and identify the best roads and bridges to invest in and mitigate to enable quick travel through cities after a flood event. This type of work requires analyzing mapped information, managing geographic information in a database, mathematical modeling, and an understanding of the computational techniques needed to solve integer programs with tools such as Gurobi, Python, and ArcGIS.
  • M.Sc., Industrial Engineering
    • Middle East Technical University, Department of Industrial Engineering, Turkey
    • Advisors: Prof. Hakan Gultekin and Prof. Sinan Gurel
    • Dissertation: Robotic Cell Scheduling
      • I studied the trade-off between the throughput rate and the energy consumption of robots in flexible machine robotic cells. The study was the first in the literature to simultaneously consider the energy consumption and the throughput rate. We used Lagrangian multipliers and Karush-Kuhn-Tucker optimality conditions for a two-machine robotic cell to determine the optimal robot move speeds analytically. For this strongly NP-Hard problem, in cases where energy consumption was not a concern, heuristic algorithms have been developed for cells consisting of m machines.
  • B.S., Industrial Engineering
    • University of Tabriz, Department of Industrial Engineering, Iran
    • Advisors: Prof. Mahdi Zarghami
    • B.S. Capstone Project: Multi-Objective Urban Water Management Planning
      • I worked on a water supply management model, which optimizes three objectives (increasing water supply, reducing the expenses, and reducing social hazard) through six decision variables. To solve this NLP optimization problem, MINOS solver in a GAMS environment was used. Finally, pareto optimal solutions were obtained by a multi-objective genetic algorithm coded in MATLAB.

Grant writing

  • Green Robotic Cell Scheduling
    • Accepted by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
    • Grant No. 215M845
    • Grant Period: April 2016- April 2018
    • Budget: 82,000 USD

Research/Project Assistantship

  • Transportation Network mitigation for flood preparedness: This research is sponsored by the Department of Transportation (DOT), 2020-2021
  • Green Robotic Cell Scheduling: This research is based on the support of The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), 2016-2017
  • Line Balancing in Production Lines Served by a Single/Dual Gripper Robot: This research is based on the support of The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), 2014-2016

SPECIAL HONORS AND GRANTS

• Dare to Discover Banner Campaign, University of Iowa, Office of the Vice President, 2021
• INFORMS 2020 Student Chapter Annual Award, Cum laude, Vice President of the Chapter, 2020
• Summer Research Fellowship, University of Iowa Graduate College, 2020
• Post-Comprehensive Research Award, University of Iowa Graduate College, Spring 2020
• 3MT – Three-Minute Thesis Finalist Award, University of Iowa Graduate College, 2019
• Graduate Student Senate (GSS) Travel Funds Award, University of Iowa Graduate College, 2019
• Summer Research Fellowship, University of Iowa, Department of Business Analytics, 2019
• Research Fellowship, University of Iowa, Department of Business Analytics, Spring 2019
• Summer Research Fellowship, University of Iowa, Department of Business Analytics, 2018
• TUBITAK Research Scholarship Award, 2014 and 2016