Expertise

Research Interests:

  • Sustainable transportation
    • Vehicle routing, vehicle selection and fleet composition for sustainable transportation with alternative-fuel vehicles
    • Smoothing electricity demand via vehicle-to-grid and other grid-integrated applications
    • Personal and shared mobility solutions via autonomous vehicles
    • Last-mile delivery using drones
  • Just-in-time production and distribution operations
    • The combined car-sequencing and just-in-time level-scheduling problem
    • Unrelated parallel machine scheduling with sequence-dependent setup times
    • Integrated production and distribution scheduling for just-in-time delivery
  • Computational optimization
    • Improving the performance of Branch-and-X family of algorithms via novel branching, node selection, and partial solution specification timing strategies
    • Shortening research development time through a unified framework for tree search algorithms and computational experiments
Past Affiliations

Associate Professor, Harry F Byrd Jr. School of Business, Shenandoah University (past)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida (past)

Communities
Management Information Systems, Statistics, Information Science/Systems
Degrees
PhD, University of Florida, Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2005
MS, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, Engineering Management, 2001
BS, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, Industrial Engineering
Keywords
sustainable development decision sciences decision-making environmental justice transportation transportation engineering (environmental impacts) production engineering electric & hybrid vehicles production or operations management linear programming integer programming computer algorithms optimization analytical techniques renewable energy resources sustainability