The People’s Choice Award 2023 from B/S/H/ Start/Up Kitchen for creating significant cost savings by optimizing logistics and assures visibility and transparency in the complex and increasingly more uncertain environment of in and outbound flows of shipment for SmartOpt, 2023
Artificial Intelligence Award for The Best AI-Based Supply ChainOptimisation Company-Middle East for SmartOpt, 2022
StartUs Award for 5 Top AI Startups Impacting Logistics for SmartOpt, 2021
The Most Successful Koç Employees (En Başarılı Koçlular) Award for MilkRunOptimization-jointly with Arçelik and KoçZer, 2019
IBM OCR Award, 2012 (Open Collaborative Research Award by IBM Haifa Research for “Online Proactive Operation Management Solution Project”)
IBM Faculty Award, 2009 (for the development of novel multi-group data classification approach)
IBM SUR (Shared University Research) Award, 2007 (for the development of sustainable supply chain and logistics systems, first IBM SUR Award in Turkey)
CHAIR, EURO-CBBM: EURO Working Group on Operational Research in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine
TUBITAK Incentive Award, 2006 (for international contributions to mixed-integer programming)
TUBITAK Career Award, 2005 (for the development of environmentally conscious supply chain management models in energy sector and multi-objective optimization algorithms)
1997 AIChE/CAST Division Ted Peterson Award (best PhD dissertation on Computing and Systems Technology, for the development of pioneering generalized disjunctive programming models and solution algorithms in the optimization of nonlinear process networks)
18th CMU ChEGSA Symposium Award, 1996 (for excellence in oral presentation by a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University)
Graduate Fellowship Award, Carnegie Mellon University, May 1993-December 1996
Fulbright Scholarship Award, Carnegie Mellon University, July 1992-May 1993
Sami Kirdar Scholarship, Middle East Technical University, January 1987-December 1989