Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Ph.D. Operations Research
Minor: Statistics
Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
M.S. Industrial Engineering
Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
B.S. Industrial Engineering
B.S. Computer Engineering
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Visiting Student
INFORMS ENRE (Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment Section) Early Career Best Paper Award (Runner-up), 2024.
University of Iowa Tippie College of Business Social Impact Research Award, 2024.
University of Iowa Office of the Vice President for Research Early Career Scholar Award, 2023.
Transportation Science Meritorious Service Award, 2023.
IISE Transactions Best Paper Award in Focus Issue of Operations Engineering & Analytics, 2021.
Georgia Tech ISyE Alice and John Jarvis PhD Student Research Award, 2019.
awarded annually to one PhD student at the Department for research excellence.
Tech to Teaching Certificate, Georgia Tech, Center for Teaching and Learning, 2019.
successful completion of a multi-semester future faculty program for thorough understanding of the scholarship of teaching and learning.
INFORMS ENRE Best Student Paper Award, 2018.
Mixed Integer Programming Workshop Student Travel Awards, 2017, 2018, 2019.
Tennenbaum Fellowship Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015 - 2017.
awarded to selected incoming PhD students with outstanding academic excellence.
Master Student Fellowship, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), 2013 - 2015.
High Honor Degrees, Bogazici University, 2013.
Winner of Akbank Think Tank Case Project Competition, 2012.
awarded for scholarship at the Summer School of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Honorable Mention from TUBITAK Project Competition in Mathematics, 2007.