Student Supervision

Doctoral Thesis

Deniz Tuncer, Large-Scale Optimization Problems Involving Matrix Multiplication with Applications, Summer 2026 (expected).


Master Thesis

Neman Karimi, A Dynamic Strategic Plan for the Transition to a Clean Bus Fleet using Multi-Stage Stochastic Programming with a Case Study in Istanbul, Summer 2025 (expected, co-supervised with Tuğçe Yüksel)

Mebrure Buket Özen, Learning to Relax Nonconvex Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs, July 2024.

Mosayeb Jalilian, Optimization-Based Bound Tightening and New Valid Inequalities for the Pooling Problem, December 2022.

Bahar Cennet Okumuşoğlu, Mathematical Programming Approaches for Two Problems in Energy Systems, June 2022 (co-supervised with Beste Başçiftci).

Deniz Tuncer, MISOCP-Based Solution Approaches to the Unit Commitment Problem with AC Power Flows, July 2021.

Rabia Taşpınar, Discretization Based Solution Approaches for the Circle Packing Problem, July 2021.

Polen Arabacı, Comparison of Robust Optimization Models for Portfolio Optimization, August 2020.

Sahand Asgharieh Ahari, Mixed-Integer Exponential Cone Programming in Action: Sparse Logistic Regression and Optimal Histogram Construction, August 2020.

Sezen Ece Kayacık, Second-Order Cone Programming Based Methods for Two Variants of Optimal Power Flow, August 2020 (co-supervised with Tuğçe Yüksel).


Undergraduate Research Project 

Solving Energy Transition Problems under Uncertainty (co-supervised with Tuğçe Yüksel)

Solving the Heilbronn Triangle Problem using Global Optimization Methods

Solving the Multi-Layer Thin Films Problem with Optimization Techniques

Predicting Technology Development for Next Generation Clean Energy Systems (co-supervised with Tuğçe Yüksel)

Empirically Tractable Antibiotics Time Machines with Some Intermediate Observations

Stochastic Optimization in Random Fitness Landscapes (co-supervised with Ali Rana Atılgan)

Empirically Tractable Antibiotics Time Machines (co-supervised with Ali Rana Atılgan)