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), September 2018 – present.
• 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.
• Gita Taherkhani, Hub location problems with profit considerations, September 2015 – April 2019.
  • 2^nd place at the INFORMS AAS Best Dissertation Prize in 2019, 2^nd 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.