- Honor Award of The Operations Research Society of Turkey (2018)
- Guest editor (with R. Soyer) of Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Special Issue: Games and Decisions in Reliability and Risk (v. 179) (2018)
- Editor-in-chief of Transactions on Operational Research (2004 – 2014)
- Associate editor of Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry (2008 – 2018)
- Bogaziçi University Foundation Achievement Award in Scientific Research (1999)
- Bogaziçi University Foundation Award (1998)
- Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBİTAK) Award (1990)
- The Franz Edelman Management Science Achievement Finalist Award (1988)
- Associate editor of Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (1992 – 2004)
- Associate editor of Transactions on Operational Research (1992 – 2004)
- Scientific consultant to the Arab School of Science and Technology (1988)
- Member of Omega Rho International Honor Society
- Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
- Member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS)
- Member of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability (BS)
- Member of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
- Member of the Operations Research Society of Turkey
- Member of the Turkish Statistics Society
- Northwestern University Fellowship (1975-1976)
- Graduated with honors from Northwestern University (GPA = 3.97/4.00)
- Graduated with honors from Boğaziçi University (GPA = 3.81/4.00)