MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD

    • 2014 – 2016 | Computers and Operations Research
    • 2015 – Current | Production and Operations Management

SPECIAL ISSUE EDITING

    • Decision Sciences Journal, Title: Data Analytics for Operational Risk Management, (2019 – 2020), with editors Ozgur Araz, Tsan-Ming Choi and David Olson

JOURNAL REFEREE

    • Operations Research
    • Management Science
    • Informs Journal on Computing
    • Transportation Science
    • SIAM J. on Discrete Mathematics
    • IISE Transactions
    • European Journal of Operational Research
    • Computers and Operations Research
    • Naval Research Logistics
    • Transportation Research
    • Optimization and Engineering
    • Telecommunication Systems
    • 4OR
    • International J. of Operations and Quantitative Management
    • Journal of Infrastructure Systems
    • Journal of Discrete Algorithms
    • Theoretical Computer Science
    • Annals of Operations Research
    • Optimization Letters
    • International Journal of Production Economics
    • Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
    • OMEGA – The International Journal of Management Science
    • Applied Mathematical Modeling
    • INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research
    • Journal of Industrial Management and Optimization
    • European Journal of Industrial Engineering
    • Computers and Industrial Engineering
    • IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems
    • Natural Hazards
    • OR Spectrum (received outstanding reviewer award in 2019)
    • Management Science
    • Management Science
    • IATSS Research
    • Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science
    • Journal of Operational Research Society

CONFERENCE REFEREE

    • Winter Simulation Conference, 2010
    • SAVTEK, Turkish Defense Technologies Conference, 2010
    • Fourth International Workshop on Freight Transportation and Logistics, ODYSSEUS 2009
    • International Network Optimization Conference INOC 2009
    • IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, SOLI 2007
    • Management and Service Operations Management, MSOM 2006
    • First International Conference on Computer, Communications and Signal Processing 2005
    • ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2003

PROJECT PROPOSAL REVIEWER/PANELIST

    • Turkish Science and Technology Council (TUBITAK)
    • Israel Science Foundation, Istanbul Municipality.

JUDGE/JURY MEMBER

    • Judge for the YAEM 2018 Industry Project Competition
    • 2012 INFORMS Student Paper Competition
    • YAEM 2009 Student Paper Competition
    • Bilkent Student Project Competition 2009 and 2012
    • INFORMS Case Competition 2003
    • YAEM 2005 Student Paper Competition Coordinator

POSITIONS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

    • 2015 – 2017 | Coordinator and Co-founder of EURO Working Group on Humanitarian Operations
    • Founding committee member of EURO WISDOM

INVITED TALKS/SEMINARS:

    • 2019 | Technical University Delft
    • 2018 | Koç University
    • 2017 | Bilkent University
    • 2015 | Vrei University
    • 2015 | University of Vienna
    • 2013 | University of Maryland
    • 2013 | Arizona State University
    • 2012 | Sabanci University
    • 2012 | Bilkent University
    • 2008 | Metropolitan Planning Department, Istanbul Municipality
    • 2007 | Department of Operations Research and Statistics, Tel Aviv University
    • 2007 & 2010 | Industrial Engineering Department, Galatasaray University
    • 2006 | Industrial Engineering Department, Eastern Mediterranean University
    • 2006 | Industrial Engineering Department, Bilkent University
    • 2004 & 2009 | Industrial Engineering Department, Bogazici University
    • 2004 | Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University
    • 2003 | Industrial Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University
    • 2003 | Industrial Engineering Department, Koc University
    • 2003 | Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, University of Toronto
    • 2001 | Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley
    • 2000 | School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
    • 2000 | Department of Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

    1. ORAHS 2020: 46th Annual Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Operational Research in Health Care (e-conference), July 27-31, 2020, Vienna, Austria. “Prioritized Routing and Scheduling for Home Healthcare Services: Static and Dynamic Optimization”, with A. Cinar, O. Araz and B. Bozkaya.
    2. EURO 2019: 30th European Conference on Operational Research, June 23-26, 2019, Dublin, Ireland. “Modeling Mobile Health Service Delivery to Syrian Migrant Farm Workers using Call Record Data”, with S. Turper-Alisik, A. Coskun, I. Kayi and E. Yucel.
    3. CPAIOR 2019: 16th International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research, June 4-7, 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece. Invited for the Master Class. “Modeling Equity in Disaster Management: Inequity-Averse Shelter Location for Disaster Preparedness”, with W. Gutjahr and M. Mostajabdaveh.
    4. POMS 2019: 30th Annual Conference of Production and Operations Management Society, May 2-6, 2019, Washington D.C., USA. “Logistics Planning of Cash Transfer: The Case of Syrian Refugees in Turkey”, with S. De Leeuw et al.
    5. INFORMS 2018: Annual Meeting, November 4-7, 2018, Phoenix, USA. “Inequity-averse Shelter Location for Disaster Preparedness”, with M. Mostajabdaveh and W. Gutjahr.
    6. EURO 2018: 29th European Conference on Operational Research, July 8-11, 2018, Valencia, Spain. “A Data-driven Model for Routing Mobile Medical Facilities”, with E. Yucel, B. Bozkaya and C. Gokalp.
    7. YAEM 2018: National Meeting, June 26-29, 2017, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey. “Optimizing the Routing of Mobile Medical Facilities”, with E. Yucel, B. Bozkaya and C. Gokalp.
    8. VeRoLog 2017: Conference of EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization, July 10-12, 2017, Amsterdam, Holland, “Prioritized Routing and Scheduling for Home Healthcare Services”, with A. Çınar and B. Bozkaya.
    9. HOpe 2017: Mini-conference of EURO Working Group on Humanitarian Operations, June 29-30, 2017, Vienna, Austria, “Planning and Distribution in Cash-based Intervention Programs”.
    10. YAEM 2017: National Meeting, July 5-7, 2017, YTU, Istanbul. “The Role of Operations Research/Industrial Engineering in Disaster and Emergency Management”, panel moderator and speaker.
    11. WARP2 2016: Workshop on Arc Routing Problems, May 22-24, 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, “Multi-Vehicle Synchronized Prize Collecting Arc Routing for Connectivity Problem”, with V. Akbari.
    12. EURO 2016: European Conference on Operational Research, July 3-6, 2016, Poznan, Poland, “An Optimal Strategy for the Online Multi-agent k-Canadian Traveler Problem on Edge-disjoint Graphs”, with D. Shiri.
    13. ISMP 2015: International Mathematical Programming Symposium, July 12-17, 2015, Pittsburgh, USA, “Multi-Vehicle Arc Routing for Connectivity Problem”, with V. Akbari.
    14. YAEM 2015: National Meeting, September 9-11, 2015, METU, Ankara. “A Prize-Collecting Arc Routing for Connectivity Problem to Open Emergency Routes After a Disaster”, with Maziar Kasaei.
    15. ISOLDE 2014: International Symposium on Locational Decisions, June, 2014, Napoli-Capri, Italy. “Arc Routing for Connectivity in Disaster Response”, with V. Akbari.
    16. INFORMS 2013: Annual Meeting, October 6-9, 2013, Minneapolis, USA. “Restoration of Road Network Connectivity After a Disaster”, with A. N. Asaly.
    17. YAEM 2012: National Meeting, June 20- July 22, 2012, Dogus University, Istanbul. “Locating Emergency Response Facilities in Istanbul ”, with S. Özdinç and E. Yücel.
    18. VeRoLog 2012: Conference of EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization, June 18-20, 2012, Bologna, Italy. “Logistics of Clinical Testing: A Prioritized Bicriteria Heuristic for Collection for Processing Problem”, with E.Yücel, E. L.Örmeci and E. S. Gel.
    19. EU/ME Workshop 2011: Client-centered Logistics and International Aid, Feb. 21-22, 2011, Vienna, Austria. “Logistics of Clinical Testing: Heuristics for Routing and Scheduling of Specimen Collection”, with E.Yücel, E. L.Örmeci and E. S. Gel.
    20. EURO 2010 Conference, July 11-14, 2010, Lisbon, Portugal. “Locating Emergency Response Facilities on a Network with a Linear Reliability Order of Links”, with R. Hassin and R. Ravi.
    21. YAEM 2010: National Meeting, June 30- July 2, 2010, Sabancı University, Istanbul. “An Assessment of the Emergency Medical Response System of Istanbul after a Possible Earthquake ”, with E. A. Tanrıöven and E. S. Gel.
    22. YAEM 2009: National Meeting, June 22-24, 2009, Bilkent University, Ankara. “Multi-item Dynamic Lot-sizing with Delayed Transportation Policy”, with E. Sancak.
    23. ESA 2009, European Symposium on Algorithms, September 7–9 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark. “Tractable Cases of Facility Location on a Network with a Linear Reliability Order of Links”, with R. Hassin and R. Ravi.
    24. ODYSSEUS 2009, Fourth International Workshop on Freight Transportation and Logistics, May 26-29 2009, Cesme, Turkey. “Post-disaster Casualty Logistics Planning: The İstanbul Case”, with S. Gül.
    25. INOC 2009, International Network Optimization Conference, April 26-29, 2009, Pisa, Italy. “Facility Location on a Network with Unreliable Links”, with R. Hassin and R. Ravi.
    26. INFORMS Telecommunications Conference, March 27-29, 2008. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. “System Optimization for Broadcasting in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks”, with C. Atici, V. Dedeoglu, and M. O. Sunay.
    27. SOLI 2007, IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, Philadelphia, August 27-29, 2007. “Shift Scheduling in Call Centers with Multiple Skill Sets and Transportation Costs”, with E. Emil, and E. L. Ormeci.
    28. INOC 2007, International Network Optimization Conference, Spa, Belgium, April 22-25, 2007. “Assessing the Performance and Reliability of a Network under Disaster Risk”, with D. Gunnec.
    29. INFORMS Annual Meeting 2006, Pittsburgh, USA. “Assortment Planning and Supplier Selection under Demand Substitution in Retail Operations” with E. Yucel, F. Karaesmen and M. Turkay.
    30. CDD 2006, International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters, Mati, Athens, October 5-7, 2006. “Disaster Management: Strengthening the Links of a Network for Disaster Response”, with D. Gunnec, K. Viswanath and S. Peeta.
    31. ODYSSEUS 2006 Conference, Third International Workshop on Freight Transportation and Logistics, May 23-26, 2006, Altea, Spain. “Strengthening the Links of a Network for Disaster Response” with K. Viswanath and S. Peeta.
    32. EURO 2004 Conference, Rhodes, Greece, “Energy Efficient Broadcasting in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks”, with K. Altinkemer and P. Bellur, July 4-7, 2004.
    33. INFORMS Annual Meeting 2002, San Jose, “A Case Study of Location and Distribution Decisions at Anadolu Efes” with M. Koksalan.
    34. INFORMS International Conference, Maui, Hawaii, June 17-20, 2001. “Search by Objective Relaxation for the LAN Design Problem”, with R. Ravi and J. Hooker.
    35. INFORMS Annual Meeting 1999, Philadelphia, “Cooperative Strategies for Solving the Bicriteria Sparse Knapsack Problem”, with J. Kalagnanam and Sesh Murty.
    36. INFORMS Annual Meeting 1999, Philadelphia, “Approximation Algorithms for the Multiple Knapsack Problem with Assignment Restrictions”, with P. Keskinocak, M. Dawande and J. Kalagnanam.
    37. ESA European Symposium on Algorithms, “Approximation Algorithms for the Traveling Purchaser Problem and Its Variants in Network Design”, with R. Ravi, Prague, 1999.
    38. INFORMS National Meeting, Montreal, Spring 1998. “Heuristics for the Bicriteria Sparse Multiple Knapsack Problem”, with J. Kalagnanam and, S. Murthy.
    39. INFORMS National Meeting, “Analysis of a General Class of Discrete Optimization Problems with Parametric Righthand Sides”, with B. C. Tansel, Seattle, Fall 1998.
    40. INFORMS National Meeting, “A Survey of Parametric and Sensitivity Analysis in Combinatorial Optimization”, with B. C. Tansel and M. H. Demir, San Diego, Spring 1997.
    41. INFORMS National Meeting, “Parametric Multimedian Location on Networks”, with B. C. Tansel, New Orleans, Fall 1995. Also presented at the National Meeting of the Operational Research Society of Turkey, YAEM, Ankara, 1994 (in Turkish).

CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEES

    • EURO Conference 2018, Valencia, Spain.
    • YAEM 2018, National Operations Research/Industrial Engineering Congress, Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey.
    • International IIE (Institute of Industrial Engineers) Conference, 2013, Istanbul, Turkey.
    • YAEM 2012, National Operations Research/Industrial Engineering Congress, Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey.

CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION COMMITTEES

    • ODYSSEUS 2009, The Fourth International Workshop on Freight Transportation and Logistics, May 2009, Cesme, Turkey.
    • MAPSP 2007, The 8th Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2-6, 2007.
    • YA/EM 2005, The Twenty Fifth National Operations Research/Industrial Engineering Congress, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, July 4-6, 2005.

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

    • Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
    • Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)
    • Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO)
    • Yöneylem Araştırması Derneği (YAD)