Research

A Vehicle Routing Formulation for Harvest Scheduling in Banana Production

Harun Avci, Aysu Ozel

Under review

The Value of Modeling Enrollment Dynamics in School District Design

Aysu Ozel, Dipayan Banerjee, Karen Smilowitz

Under review

Context-Rich Data Sets for School Operations Models and Methods

Aysu Ozel, Karen Smilowitz

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2026

Community-Engaged School District Design: A Stream-Based Approach

Aysu Ozel, Karen Smilowitz, Lila K. S. Goldstein

Operations Research, 2025

• First Place, 2023 INFORMS Doing Good with Good OR Student Paper Competition

• Finalist, 2023 INFORMS DEI Best Student Paper Award

• Finalist, 2024 INFORMS Chicago Chapter Impactful OR/Analytics Prize

Exact Solution Approaches for the Minimum Total Cost Traveling Salesman Problem with Multiple Drones

Gizem Ozbaygin Tiniç, Oya E. Karasan, Bahar Y. Kara, James F. Campbell, Aysu Ozel

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2023