Publications:
Natalie Randall*, Beste Basciftci. "Risk-Averse Contextual Predictive Maintenance and Operations Scheduling with Flexible Generation under Wind Energy Uncertainty", European Journal of Operational Research, 2025, Vol. 327 (1), 174-190.
INFORMS ENRE Early Career Best Paper Award (Runner-up), 2024.
Sezen Ece Kayacık*, Beste Basciftci, Albert H. Schrotenboer, Evrim Ursavas. "Partially Adaptive Multistage Stochastic Programming", European Journal of Operational Research, 2025, Vol. 321 (1), 192-207.
Beste Basciftci, Esra Koca, Sinan Emre Kosunda*. "Optimizing Strategic and Operational Decisions of Car Sharing Systems under Demand Uncertainty and Substitution", Computers & Operations Research, 2025, Vol. 180, 107052.
Beste Basciftci, Shabbir Ahmed, Nagi Gebraeel. "Adaptive Two-stage Stochastic Programming with an Analysis on Capacity Expansion Planning Problem", Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2024, Vol. 26 (6), 2121-2141.
Hongzhao Guan*, Beste Basciftci, Pascal Van Hentenryck. "Path-Based Formulations for the Design of On-demand Multimodal Transit Systems with Adoption Awareness", INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2024, Vol. 36 (6): 1359-1756.
Bahar Okumusoglu*, Beste Basciftci, Burak Kocuk. "An Integrated Predictive Maintenance and Operations Scheduling Framework for Power Systems Under Failure Uncertainty", INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2024, Vol. 36 (5): 1147-1358.
Yuang Chen*, Beste Basciftci, Valerie Thomas. "Chance-constrained Multi-stage Stochastic Energy System Expansion Planning with Demand Satisfaction Flexibility", International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, 2024, Vol. 155, 109499.
Heraldo Rozas*, Beste Basciftci, Nagi Gebraeel. "Data-driven Joint Optimization of Maintenance and Spare Parts Provisioning for Deep Space Habitats: A Stochastic Programming Approach", Acta Astronautica, 2024, Vol. 214, 167-181.
Beste Basciftci, Pascal Van Hentenryck. "Capturing Travel Mode Adoption in Designing On-demand Multimodal Transit Systems", Transportation Science, 2023, Vol. 57 (2): 351-375 .
Beste Basciftci, Xian Yu, Siqian Shen. "Resource Distribution under Spatiotemporal Uncertainty of Disease Spread: Stochastic versus Robust Approaches", Computers & Operations Research, 2023, Vol. 149, 106028.
Yuang Chen*, Beste Basciftci, Valerie Thomas. "Multi-Stage Stochastic Electrification Planning under Demand Uncertainty", IEEE PES/IAS PowerAfrica, 2022, 1-5.
Beste Basciftci, Shabbir Ahmed, Siqian Shen. "Distributionally Robust Facility Location Problem under Decision-dependent Stochastic Demand", European Journal of Operational Research, 2021, Vol. 292 (2), 548-561.
Beste Basciftci, Pascal Van Hentenryck. "Bilevel Optimization for On-Demand Multimodal Transit Systems", Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research (CPAIOR), 2020, 52 - 68.
Beste Basciftci, Shabbir Ahmed, Nagi Gebraeel. "Data-Driven Maintenance and Operations Scheduling in Power Systems under Decision-Dependent Uncertainty", IISE Transactions, 2020, Vol. 52 (6), 589-602.
IISE Transactions Best Paper Award in Focus Issue of Operations Engineering & Analytics, 2021.
Selected to be featured in Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) Magazine, 2020.
Beste Basciftci, Shabbir Ahmed, Nagi Gebraeel, Murat Yildirim. "Stochastic Optimization of Generator Maintenance and Operations Schedules under Uncertain Failures", IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2018, Vol. 33 (6), 6755 - 6765.
INFORMS ENRE (Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment Section) Best Student Paper Award, 2018.
Book Chapters:
Beste Basciftci. "Distributionally Robust Optimization in Facility Location Problems", Encyclopedia of Optimization (third edition), 2023, In P. Pardalos and O. Prokopyev, editors, Springer International Publishing.
Preprints:
Tinghan Ye*, Shuaicheng Tong*, Changkun Guan*, Beste Basciftci, Pascal Van Hentenryck. "Deep Learning-Driven Contextual Stochastic Optimization for Real-Time Order Fulfillment".
Accepted to NeurIPS 2025 ML×OR Workshop: Mathematical Foundations and Operational Integration of Machine Learning for Uncertainty-Aware Decision-Making.
Natalie Randall*, Beste Basciftci. "Distributionally Robust Predictive Maintenance and Operations Scheduling Approaches with Storage under Multimodal Wind Energy Uncertainty".
Suri Liu*, Yiling Zhang, Beste Basciftci, Wenyuan Wang. "Stochastic Bilevel Optimization for the Network Design of Multimodal Transit Systems with Heterogeneous Rider Preferences under Uncertain Travel Times and Demand".
Hongzhao Guan*, Beste Basciftci, Pascal Van Hentenryck. "Bilevel Optimization and Heuristic Algorithms for integrating Latent Demand into the Design of Large-Scale Transit Systems".
Yuang Chen*, Zhewei Li*, Beste Basciftci, Valerie Thomas. "Adaptive Two-stage Stochastic Energy Infrastructure Expansion Planning".
Esra Koca, Beste Basciftci. "Quality of Service Metrics for Risk-Aware Car Sharing Operations with Substitution".
Sezen Ece Kayacık*, Beste Basciftci, Albert H. Schrotoenboer, Iris F. A. Vis, Evrim Ursavas. "Hydrogen Network Expansion Planning considering the Chicken-and-egg Dilemma and Market Uncertainty".
Sezen Ece Kayacık*, Albert H. Schrotoenboer, Iris F. A. Vis, Beste Basciftci, Evrim Ursavas. "Dual Sourcing of Green Hydrogen: Balancing Local Production with Stochastic Capacity and Import with Random Yield".
Xian Yu, Beste Basciftci. "Distributionally Robust Optimization with Multimodal Decision-Dependent Ambiguity Sets".
*Graduate students.