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Experience

Work History

February 2011 – Present

Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering Dept., Çankaya University

• Ranked the first in student evaluations among 62 faculty of various ranks at the College of Engineering for the Fall 2015 semester.
• Ranked the first in student evaluations among ten industrial engineering faculty for Fall 2015, Fall 2014, and Fall 2012 semesters.
• Responsible for MUDEK (Turkish ABET equivalent) accreditation of the department. • Graduate courses taught: Humanitarian Logistics (IE519), Quality Systems Management (ISG511), Logistics Engineering (IE555), Quality Management (IE510)
• Undergraduate courses taught: Engineering Economy (IE341), Quality Engineering (IE326), Supply Chain Management (IE402), Production Information Systems (IE364), Operations Research I – Modeling (IE232), and Industrial Engineering Orientation (IE101)
• Consulted 20 Senior Design Projects (IE407-IE408)

Senior Logistics Engineer, J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc

• Worked on accident prediction models using big data. A logistic regression model is used to predict the risk of drivers' having an accident. The model is proven to be successful in predicting high-risk drivers accurately.
• Worked on the chassis balance project to come up with a network-wide solution. Developed a network flow model for the balance in the US-Continental intermodal train ramps.
• Worked on a project to forecast rail ETAs (Earliest Time of Availability). This forecasting model is unique to be in an intermodal carrier setting for travel time prediction.
• Developed high accuracy forecasting models to predict the intermodal demand on railroad companies.
• Designed and developed database tables in IBM DB2 environment for reporting processes in
rail capacity management.

August 2005 – June 2008

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Arkansas

• The dissertation written while working as a graduate assistant presents a holistic, intuitive, and reconfigurable procurement auction-based framework. Disaster locations are considered as auctioneers (buyers) and suppliers are considered as bidders. The framework helps the humanitarian organizations supply the immediate and long term requirements in the disaster
location more efficiently.

• Used CPLEX within Java to solve the problem of item to aircraft assignment and scheduling of missions for US TRANSCOM's disaster and humanitarian relief operations. The key issues considered are dependability, precedence and grouping of the items shipped. A time based formulation is developed.
• Conducted studies on operational effectiveness of Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) systems in a controlled environment. Logistic regression models are developed to capture the dynamic relationship among implementation factors affecting the performance of an RFID
system.

November 2003 - August 2005

Supply Chain Management Expert, Turk Telecom

• Responsible for the management of procurement auctions totaling over $ 30 million in merchandise. Items procured include software packages, coaxial cable, gate security systems and PCs.
• Responsible for deployment of Enterprise Resource Planning software in the logistics department. Process flow diagrams and UML flow charts were drawn.
• Contributed to the redesign team for the warehouses in Istanbul and Ankara.

Academics

August 2008

University of Arkansas

Ph.D., Industrial Engineering

• Dissertation title: "Procurement Auctions-Based Framework with Announcement Options
For Resources Allocation in Disaster Relief Operations"

• Advisor: Dr. Nebil Buyurgan (Ph.D., UMR), University of Arkansas

June 2005

Middle East Technical University

Master of Science, Industrial Engineering • Thesis title: "Optimal Scope of Work for International Integrated Systems."

• Advisor: Dr. Canan Sepil (Ph.D., UFL), Middle East Technical University
• Co-Advisor: Dr. Thomas Lacksonen (Ph.D., PSU), University of Wisconsin-Stout

June 2002

Istanbul Technical University

Bachelor of Science, Industrial Engineering

• Senior thesis title, "Quality Management Systems and Implementations in Catering." • Industrial Engineering project, "HACCP and Quality Management Systems."
• Advisor: Dr. Ufuk Cebeci (Ph.D., ITU), Istanbul Technical University

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