PUBLICATIONS
(* indicates one of my students)
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
R. Wang*, S. Tunc, B. Sandikci, B. Tanriover, M.J. Ellis, ‘‘Targeted Priority Mechanisms: Incentivizing, Not Enforcing, Efficient Matching of Organs,’’ Major Revision, Management Science
M. J. Rabil*, S. Tunc, D. R, Bish, E. K. Bish, ‘‘Optimal Integration of Screening Strategies and Incentive Mechanisms for the Effective Mitigation of COVID-19,’’ Major Revision, Operations Research
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 Operations Research
X. Li, S. Tunc, O. Ozaltin, M.J. Ellis, ‘‘Dynamic Discard Risk Estimation for Timely Interventions in Transplantation,’’ under review at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
R. Li, S. Tunc, O. Ozaltin, M.J. Ellis, ‘‘Improving Kidney Utilization: Predicting Discard Risk with Interpretable Models,’’ under review at Clinical Transplantation
S. Berry, B. Gorgulu, S. Tunc, M. Cevik. ``Interpretable Machine Learning for Personalized Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations," under review at Health Care Management Science
S. Berry, S. Tunc, B. Gorgulu, M. Cevik, M.J. Ellis, ``Optimizing Interventions for Hard-to-Place Kidney Allocation: A Machine Learning Approach to Center Ranking," under review at Health Care Management Science
H. Shin*, S. Tunc, X. Chen, V. Puri, "A Detailed Simulation Framework for Evaluating Lung Allocation Policies in the U.S.”, under review at Health Care Management Science
WORKING PAPERS
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. Berry, B. Gorgulu, S. Tunc, M. Cevik, M.J. Ellis, "Dynamic Patient Ranking in Hard-to-Place Kidney Allocation: A Time Series Analysis Approach"
H. Shin*, S. Tunc, X. Chen, D. Kreisel, V. Puri, "Temporal Analysis of Organ Allocation: Forecasting Dynamic Scores"
S. Tunc, P. Afeche, M. Begen, B. Sandikci, H. Shin*, F. Murillo, B. Hansen, M. Claasen, G. Sapisochin, "The Canadian Liver Transplant Landscape: Insights from a Detailed Simulation"
A.S. Zadeh, D.R. Bish, S. Tunc, E.K. Bish, "Optimal Assay Selection for Screening, Considering Biomarker Dynamics and Population Heterogeneity,"
M. J. Rabil*, S. Tunc, D. R, Bish, E. K. Bish, "Dual Approach to COVID-19 Mitigation: Integrating Screening Protocols for Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Populations"
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