Current position: Professor of industrial
engineering.
Vitae: Born 1964, Uskudar, Istanbul. Lycee Saint-Joseph, Istanbul
1983 (equivalent to French Baccalaureat); BSc (industrial eng.) from Bogazici
University, Istanbul,
1987. MSc and PhD from University of
Pennsylvania in 1989 and 1992, respectively (systems
engineering). Research: optimization applied to
finance and telecom. Post-doc at the Technical University of
Denmark ( Department of Numerical
Analysis) (1992-1994). Joined Bilkent
University in Sept. 1994. During a sabbatical year in Belgium,
taught at the Universite Catholique
de Louvain ( Institut
d'Administration et de Gestion) in Louvain-la-neuve (October 1999
to September 2000), and worked as a guest researcher
at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles
, Service de Mathematiques de la
Gestion. Spent the year 2007-2008 in Princeton University as a Fulbright
scholar at the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering.