Publications

PUBLICATIONS

(* indicates one of my students)

• R. Wang*, S. Tunc, B. Sandikci, B. Tanriover, M.J. Ellis, ‘‘Targeted Priority Mechanisms: Incentivizing, Not Enforcing, Efficient Matching of Organs,’’ Forthcoming, Management Science

• S. Berry, B. Gorgulu, S. Tunc, M. Cevik. ‘‘Interpretable Machine Learning for Personalized Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations,’’ Healthcare Management Science, 29(1):4, 2026

• R. Li, S. Tunc, O. Ozaltin, M. J. Ellis, ‘‘Improving Kidney Utilization: Predicting Discard Risk with Interpretable Models,’’ Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence , 8: 1638574, 2025

• S. Berry, B. Gorgulu, S. Tunc, M. Cevik. ‘‘Predicting Offer Burden to Optimize Batch Sizes in Simultaneously Expiring Kidney Offers,’’ Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence , 8: 1662960, 2025

• S. Tunc, B. Sandikci, B. Tanriover, ‘‘A Simple Incentive Mechanism to Alleviate the Burden of Organ Wastage in Transplantation,’’ Management Science, 68(8):5980-6002, 2022

• M. J. Rabil*, S. Tunc, D. R, Bish, E. K. Bish, ‘‘Effective Screening Strategies for Safe Opening of Universities under Omicron and Delta Variants of COVID-19,’’ Nature Scientific Reports, 12(1):21309, 2022

• M. J. Rabil*, S. Tunc, D. R, Bish, E. K. Bish, ‘‘Benefits of Integrated Screening and Vaccination for Infection Control,’’ PLOS One, 17(4):e0267388, 2022

• S. Tunc, O. Alagoz, E. B. Burnside, ‘‘A New Perspective on Breast Cancer Diagnostic Guidelines to Reduce Overdiagnosis,’’ Production and Operations Management, 31(5):2361-2378, 2022

– Finalist for the Doing Good with Good OR Student Paper Competition, 2016

• B. Sandikci, S. Tunc, B. Tanriover, ‘‘A New Simulation Model for Kidney Transplantation in the United States,’’ In Proceedings of the 2019 Winter Simulation Conference, edited by N. Mustafee et al., pp. 1079–1090, 2019.

• N. D. Vanli, S. Tunc, M. A. Donmez, S. S. Kozat, ‘‘Growth Optimal Investment in Discrete-time Markets with Proportional Transaction Costs,’’ Digital Signal Processing, 48:226-238, 2016

• H. Ozkan, M. A. Donmez, S. Tunc, S. S. Kozat, ‘‘A Deterministic Analysis of an Online Convex Mixture of Experts Algorithm,’’ IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 26(7):1575-1580, 2015

• S. Tunc, O. Alagoz, E. B. Burnside, ‘‘Opportunities for Operations Research in Medical Decision Making,’’ IEEE Intelligent Systems, 29(3):59-62, 2014 -invited paper

• S. Tunc, M. A. Donmez, S. S. Kozat, ‘‘Optimal Investment Under Transaction Costs: A Threshold Rebalanced Portfolio Approach,’’ IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 61(12):3129-3142, 2013

REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS

• S. Tunc, O. Alagoz, J. Chhatwal, E. B. Burnside, ‘‘Using Finite-Horizon Markov Decision Processes for Optimizing Post-mammography Diagnostic Decisions,’’ In N. Kong & Shengfan Zhang (Eds.), Decision Analytics and Optimization in Disease Prevention and Treatment, John Wiley & Sons, 2018

PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

• S. Tunc, B. Gorgulu, M. J. Rabil*, D. R, Bish, E. K. Bish, ‘‘Optimal Integration of Screening Strategies and Incentive Mechanisms for the Effective Mitigation of COVID-19,’’ Minor Revision, Operations Research

• U. Kose*, S. Tunc, O. Ozaltin, M.J. Ellis, ‘‘Dynamic Discard Risk Estimation for Timely Interventions in Transplantation,’’ Major Revision, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

• H. Shin*, S. Tunc, X. Chen, J.M. Reynolds, ‘‘A Detailed Simulation Framework for Evaluating Lung Allocation Policies in the U.S.’’ Major Revision, Health Care Management Science

• K. Jozani, N. Sageer, S. Tunc, H. Eldardiry, E. B. Toy, ‘‘Proactive and Need-based Epidemic Resource Allocation Through an Integrated Supply Chain Framework: Insights from a COVID-19 Study,’’ Major Revision, IISE Transactions

• S. Berry, B. Gorgulu, S. Tunc, M. Cevik. ‘‘Optimizing Interventions for Hard-to-Place Kidney Allocation: A Machine Learning Approach to Center Ranking," Major Revision, Health Care Management Science

• D.R. Bish, E.K. Bish, S. Tunc, ‘‘Strategies for Optimized Pooled Testing: Understanding the Dilution Effect of Pooling in Infectious Disease Control," under review at Management Science

• S. Tunc, R. Wang*, B. Sandikci, B. Tanriover, M. J. Ellis, “ALIGN-Kidney: A Voluntary EPTS–KDPI Matching Program to Improve Utilization of Kidneys,” under review at American Journal of Transplantation

WORKING PAPERS

• H. Shin*, S. Tunc, X. Chen, J.M. Reynolds, "Temporal Analysis of Organ Allocation: Forecasting Dynamic Scores"

• X. Zhao, M. Marraccini, S. Tunc, H. Zhong, “Data-Driven Insights into Adolescent and Youth Suicide Risk: A Machine Learning Approach to a County-Level Vulnerability Index”

• S. Tunc, P. Afeche, B. Sandikci, R. Wang*, W.F. Parker, ‘‘Treating to the Priority in Heart Transplantation"

• S. Tunc, J. Tarasewicz*, B. Sandikci, M.J. Ellis, "From Wastage to Wellness:  A Warranty Mechanism for High-Risk Transplant Returnees"

• H. Shin*, S. Tunc, P. Afeche, M. Begen, B. Sandikci, F. Murillo, B. Hansen, M. Claasen, G. Sapisochin, ``An In-depth Analysis of the Organ Offer Decisions in the Canadian Liver Transplant System"

• S. Tunc, P. Afeche, M. Begen, B. Sandikci, H. Shin*, F. Murillo, B. Hansen, M. Claasen, G. Sapisochin, "The Canadian Liver Allocation System: Insights from a Detailed Simulation"

• B. Gorgulu, S. Tunc, “Incentivizing Organ Procurement: Mechanism Design Approaches to Address Growing Waiting List Demands”

• R. Wang*, S. Tunc, M. J. Ellis, “Optimizing Patient Selection in Targeted Priority Mechanisms: A Novel Incentive in Organ Allocation"

REFEREED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

     (Regularly presented at INFORMS Annual Meetings since 2014.)

• R. Wang*, S. Tunc, B. Sandikci, M.J. Ellis, ``Targeted Priority Mechanisms in Organ Transplantation,'' MSOM Healthcare SIG, 2024

• P. Afeche, S. Tunc, B. Sandikci, ‘‘Treating to the Priority in Heart Transplantation,’’ MSOM Conference, 2024

• P. Afeche, S. Tunc, B. Sandikci, ‘‘Treating to the Priority in Heart Transplantation,’’ MSOM Conference, 2023

• R. Wang*, S. Tunc, B. Sandikci, M.J. Ellis, ``Targeted Priority Mechanisms in Organ Transplantation,'' MSOM Conference, 2023

• S. Tunc, B. Sandikci, P. Afeche, ‘‘Treating to the Priority in Heart Transplantation,’’ MSOM Conference, 2021

• S. Tunc, B. Sandikci, P. Afeche, W. F. Parker, ``Treating to the Priority in Heart Transplantation,'' MSOM Conference, 2020 [conference canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic]

• B. Sandikci, S. Tunc, B. Tanriover, ``Reducing Organ Discard Rate in Transplantation,'' Stochmod 2020: 8th Stochastic Modeling Meeting, 2020 [accepted, but conference canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic]

•  S. Tunc, B. Sandikci, B. Tanriover, ``Nudging to Accept,'' Cutting Edge of Transplantation (CEoT) 2020: Balancing Equity and Utility in the Face of an Organ Shortage, 2020

• S. Tunc, B. Sandikci, B. Tanriover, ‘‘Expanding the donor pool: The use of marginal organs for transplantation,’’ MSOM Conference, 2018

• S. Tunc, O. Alagoz, E. B. Burnside, ‘‘Identifying Mammography Findings and Risk Factors to Reduce Overdiagnosis in Women over 65,’’ 36th Annual North American Meeting of SMDM, 2014

• S. Tunc, M. A. Donmez, S. S. Kozat, ‘‘Growth Optimal Investment with Threshold Rebalancing Portfolios under Transaction Costs,’’ IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2013

• M. A. Donmez, S. Tunc, S. S. Kozat, ‘‘Growth Optimal Portfolios in Discrete-time Markets Under Transaction Costs,’’ IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2012

• M. A. Donmez, S. Tunc, S. S. Kozat, ‘‘Optimal Portfolios Under Transaction Costs in Discrete-time Markets,’’ IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), 2012

TECHNICAL REPORTS

• S. Tunc, Y. Altug, S. S. Kozat, M. K. Mihcak, ‘‘Information Theoretic Analysis of the Fundamental Limits of Content Identification,’’ Technical Report, arXiv:1810.03255