Refereed Journal Articles

• Cihan Emre Kement, Marija Ilić, Hakan Gultekin, Cihan Tugrul Cicek, Bulent Tavli, 2022. “Privacy protection via joint real and reactive load shaping in smart grids,” Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, vol. 32, 100794.

• Cihan Tugrul Cicek, Zuo-Jun Max Shen, Hakan Gultekin, Bulent Tavli, 2020. "3-D Dynamic UAV Base Station Location Problem", in INFORMS Journal on Computing, vol. 33(3), 839-860.

• Cihan Tugrul Cicek, Hakan Gultekin, Bulent Tavli, Halim Yanikomeroglu, 2020. "Backhaul-Aware Optimization of UAV Base Station Location and Bandwidth Allocation for Profit Maximization," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, 154573-154588, 2020.

• Cihan Tugrul Cicek, Hakan Gultekin, Bulent Tavli, 2019. "The Location-Allocation Problem of Drone Base Stations," Computers & Operations Research 111, 155-176.

Submissions under review

• Cihan Tugrul Cicek, Cagri Koc, Hakan Gultekin, Gunes Erdogan. “Communication-aware Drone Delivery Problem” (preprint).

Refereed Proceedings

• Cihan Tugrul Cicek, 2021. "A Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Data Collection in UAV-aided IoT Networks with Uncertain Time Windows," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC2021), Virtual, Montreal.

• Cihan Tugrul Cicek, Hakan Gultekin, Bulent Tavli, 2019. "UAV Base Station Location Optimization for Next Generation Wireless Networks: Overview and Future Research Directions," IEEE 1^st Unmanned Vehicle Systems Conference (UVS 2019), Muscat, Oman.

International Conference Presentations

• Cihan Tugrul Cicek, Cagri Koc, Hakan Gultekin, Gunes Erdogan, 2022. “Communication-aware Drone Delivery Problem,” 64^th. Operational Research Conference (OR64), Coventry, United Kingdom.

• Cihan Tugrul Cicek, Zuo-Jun Max Shen, 2021. “An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach for the UAV Dispatching in Airborne Wireless Networks,” 31^st. European Conference on Operational Research (EURO2021), Athens, Greece.

• Cihan Tugrul Cicek, 2021. “A Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Dynamic Location-Allocation Problem in Vertical Heterogeneous Communication Networks,” ISOLDE XV Conference, Wuppertal, Germany.

• Cihan Tugrul Cicek, Hakan Gultekin, Bulent Tavli, 2019. "3D Location-Allocation Problem of Drone Base Stations in Next Generation Wireless Networks," 30^th. European Conference on Operational Research (EURO2019), Dublin, U.K.

• Cihan Tugrul Cicek, Zuo-Jun Max Shen, 2019. "3-D Maximal Covering Location Problem with Unimodal Coverage: Planar case," Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) 30^th. Annual Conference, Washington D.C, USA.

• Cihan Tugrul Cicek, Zuo-Jun Max Shen, 2019. "Locating Drone Base Stations for Disaster Recovery, Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) 30^th. Annual Conference," Washington D.C, USA.

National Conference Presentations

• Cihan Tugrul Cicek, Gozdem Dural-Selcuk, 2021. "Exploring Coalition Opportunities in Logistics: A Case Study in Online Grocery Market," 40^th Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Congress, Istanbul, Turkey.

• Rana Duygu Alkurt, Amine Esin Aktas, Sena Saygin, Zeynep Sena Incecam, Cihan Tugrul Cicek, 2021. "Multi-Period Multi-Product Production and Inventory Planning with Backorders: A Cement Industry Case Study," 40^th Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Congress, Istanbul, Turkey.

• Cihan Tugrul Cicek, Hakan Gultekin, Tugser Kutlu, Bulent Tavli, 2018. "The Location Problem of UAV Base Stations in 5G+ Cellular Networks," 38^th Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Congress, Eskisehir, Turkey.

• Cihan Tugrul Cicek, Nilgun Fescioglu Unver, 2017. "Performance Analysis of Policies to Select Employees to Enter Vocational Exams," 37^th Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Congress, Istanbul, Turkey.

• Cihan Tugrul Cicek, Fatma Sedef Meral, 2015. "An Approach for Improving Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings," 35^th Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Congress, Ankara, Turkey.

PhD Thesis

• Optimization of 3-D Location and Resource Allocation Problems of Unmanned Aerial Base Stations, 2019. TOBB University of Economics and Technology, PhD. in Industrial Engineering, Ankara, Turkey. (Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Hakan Gultekin, Co-supervisor: Prof. Bulent Tavli).

MSc. Thesis

• Improving Sustainability in Multi-Tenanted Buildings: What Do Landlords Plan and What Do Tenants Demand?, 2014. University College London, MSc. in Facilities Management, London, UK. (Supervisor: Prof. Peter McLennan).

• An Approach for Improving Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings with Learning Effect and Availability Consideration, 2014. Middle East Technical University, MSc. in Operations Research, Ankara, Turkey. (Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Sedef Meral).