Students

Current Graduate students and postdocs
  • Serkan Turhan, PhD, 2021 – present, Flight dispatcher scheduling (co-supervisor S. Elhedhli)
  • Nazli Kalkan, PhD, 2022 – present, UAV traffic routing
  • Jeremy Nicholson, MASc, 2022 – present, UAV traffic network design
  • Aniket Biswal, MASc, 2022 – present, Flight delay prediction modelling (co-supervisor S. Rambhatla)
Past Graduate Students

PhD
  • Omer Burak Kinay - Thesis: Infrastructure Design for Electric and Autonomous Vehicles (co-supervisor S. Alumur Alev)
  • Gohram Baloch Thesis – Thesis: Inventory and Service Optimization for Self-serve Kiosks
  • Zeynep Bulbul - Thesis: Dynamic Route Planning for Last-Mile Delivery (co-supervisor B. Ghaddar)
  • Aliaa Alnaggar - Thesis: Optimization under Uncertainty for E-retail Distribution: From Supplier to the Last Mile (co-supervisor J. Bookbinder)
  • Cynthia Waltho, Green Supply Chain Network Design with Emission Sensitive Demand (co-supervisor S. Elhedhli)
  • Burak Yildiz, 2018, Models and Solution Methods for the Pallet Loading Problem (co-supervisor S. Elhedhli)
  • Ugur Yildiz, 2018, Data Driven Efficiency for E-Warehousing: Descriptive and Prescriptive Analytics (co-supervisor S. Elhedhli)
  • Da Lu, 2014, Routing and scheduling under uncertainty with applications to airline operations
  • David Wheatley, 2014, Inventory-Location Problems for Spare Parts With Time-Based Service Levels (co-supervisor E Jewkes)
MASc.
  • Rebecca Sarah Rayner, 2021, Workload Balancing for Flight Dispatcher Scheduling
  • Shahroz Punjwani, 2018, A feasible Lagrangian approach with application to the generalized assignment problem (co-supervisor S. Elhedhli)
  • Gohram Baloch, 2017, Strategic Network Design for delivery by Drones under Service-based Competition
  • Aliaa Alnaggar, 2017, Distribution Planning with Consolidation - A Two-Stage Stochastic Programming Approach (co-supervisor J. Bookbinder)
  • Daren Zhu, 2017, Optimizing Order Consolidation with Simulation Optimization
  • Amin Hosseininasab, 2014, Continuous time models for service network design
  • Shuo Xu, 2015, Inventory location under (Q, R) and (S-1, S) stocking policies
  • Yi Feng Li, 2015, 3D bin packing with application in warehousing operations (co-supervisor S. Elhedhli)
  • Muhammad Waqas Riaz, 2013, Two-echelon supply chain design for spare parts with time constraints ( co-supervisor E. Jewkes)
  • Ghazal Ghodsi, 2012, A Lagrangian relaxation approach to two-stage stochastic facility location problem with second-stage activation cost
  • Anuj Vasishta, 2012, Optimal relay station placement in broadband wireless access networks
  • Da Lu, 2010, Facility location with economies of scale and congestion (co-supervisor S. Elhedhli)
  • Mahsa Shateri, 2011, Task optimization and workforce scheduling (co-supervisor S. Elhedhli)
Postdoctoral Fellows
  • Leanne Stuive, 2023, UAV Traffic network optimization
  • Hussein El-Hajj, 2022, Shared economy for disaster preparedness (co-supervisor S. Elhedhli)
  • Gulesin Sena Das, 2019, Multi-objective gate assignment using column generation
  • Vedat Bayram, 2016, Warehousing Analytics (co-supervisor S. Elhedhli)
  • Da Lu, 2015, Mixed case palletization (co-supervisor S. Elhedhli)
  • Eissa Nematollahi, 2010, Inventory location with service considerations (co-supervisor A. Dasci)