Student Supervision

Post-Doc Fellows:

  • Elif Zeyper Serper, Optimization of hub networks for smart transportation with autonomous vehicles. February 2024 – February 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), Optimizing healthcare delivery for infectious disease testing, September 2018 – January 2025.
  • Khaled Shah (co-supervised with Jim Bookbinder), Shipment consolidation in hub location problems, September 2018 – November 2024.
  • Elif Zeynep Serper (co-supervised with Aysegul Altin), Optimal wireless sensor network deployment protocols for smart grid, April 2014  August 2022
  • Ömer Burak Kinay, (co-supervised by Fatma Gzara), Infrastructure design for electric and autonomous vehicles, September 2017  April 2022. Runner up for the INFORMS SOLA PhD Dissertation Award in 2024
  • Gita Taherkhani, Hub location problems with profit considerations, September 2015  April 2019. 2nd place at the INFORMS AAS Best Dissertation Prize in 2019, 2nd place at the INFORMS SOLA PhD Dissertation Award in 2020
  • Brita Rohrbeck (co-supervised with Stefan Nickel), Location planning of charging stations for electric city buses, January 2014  January 2018.

Masters Students:

  • Majid Taherkhani, September 2024 – present.
  • 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.