Student Supervision

Post-Doc Fellows:

  • Elif Zeyper Serper, Optimization of hub networks for smart transportation with autonomous vehicles. February 2024 – January 2025.

  • Aykan Akincilar, Robust hub location and network design in airline operations planning. December 2020 – December 2021.

PhD Students:

  • Atahan Bayir (co-supervised with Fatih S. Erenay), September 2023 – present.

  • Umut Ermagan (co-supervised with Okan Arslan), September 2023 – present.

  • Hao Li, January 2023 – present.

  • Hsiu-Chuan (Affleck) Chang (co-supervised with Bissan Ghaddar), September 2020 – present.

  • Esma Akgun (co-supervised with Fatih S. Erenay), September 2018 – present.

  • Khaled Shah (co-supervised with Jim Bookbinder), September 2018  present.

  • Ömer Burak Kinay, (co-supervised by Fatma Gzara), Infrastructure design for electric and autonomous vehicles, September 2017  April 2022.

  • Gita Taherkhani, Hub location problems with profit considerations, September 2015  April 2019.

  • Elif Zeynep Serper (co-supervised with Aysegul Altin), Optimal wireless sensor network deployment protocols for smart grid, April 2014  August 2022. 

  • Brita Rohrbeck (co-supervised with Stefan Nickel), Location planning of charging stations for electric city buses, January 2014  January 2018. 

Masters Students:

  • Sheila Afros, September 2023 – present.

  • Emre Berk Unsal, Data-driven analysis of optimal repositioning in dockless bike-sharing systems, September 2020 – August 2022.

  • Marc Janschekowitz (co-supervised with Stefan Nickel), Addressing uncertainty in hub location problems by an iterative simulation-optimization approach, December 2016  November 2017.

  • Mobina Massaeli (co-supervised with Jim Bookbinder), Shipment scheduling in hub location problems, September 2015  August 2017.

  • Fatih Bilen, Bi-objective p-hub location problems, September 2015  April 2017.

  • Aycan Kaya, Closed-loop supply chain network design, August 2012  July 2014.

  • Ecem Konak (co-supervised with Berrin Aytac), Locations of emergency medical service facilities, December 2013  July 2014.

  • Saliha Altuntas, Hub location and the design of capacitated intermodal hub networks with different service types, April 2012  April 2014.

  • Elif Zeynep Serper, Hub location and the design of capacitated intermodal hub networks focusing on costs, April 2012  April 2014.

  • Yusuf Secerdin, Multi period hub location and hub network design problems with modular hub capacities, October 2012  December 2013.

  • Isil (Basmaci) Tari, Collection center location in reverse logistics networks, January 2011  March 2013.