Faculty Profile

Education

Current Position(s) Held

Research Interests

• Sustainable Operations Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Behavioral Operations Management

Awards, Recognition and Honors

• Dean's Teaching Honor List, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2024, 2023, 2021, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015
• Runner-up of the 2020 INFORMS TIMES Best Paper Award, INFORMS TIMES Section, 2020
• SMU Most Promising Teaching Award Nominee, 2017, 2016
• Dean's Impact Award, 2017
• Finalist in the 2012 MSOM Student Paper Competition
• Second Prize in the 2012 POMS College of Supply Chain Management Student Paper Competition
• INSEAD Doctoral Scholarship, 2007-2012
• Passed INSEAD PhD qualification examination with distinction
• Ranked 1st in the Turkish National University Entrance Exam among over 1.3 million students
• Ranked 1st in the graduating class of 2005
• IBM Travel Grant for the MSOM Conference, June 2009
• TUBITAK National Scholarship Program for MSc Students, 2006-2007
• Haci Omer Sabanci Foundation Scholarship, 2000-2005

Research

• Economic and environmental implications of biomass commercialization in agricultural processing, with Bin Li and Onur Boyabatli, Management Science, 69(6), 3561-3577, 2023
• The impact of commodity price uncertainty on the economic value of waste-to-energy conversions in agricultural processing, with Bin Li and Onur Boyabatli, Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management, 16(3-4), 229-249, 2023
• Electric Vehicles with a Battery Switching Station: Adoption and Environmental Impact, joint with Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine, Management Science, 61(4), 772-794, 2015
    - Second Prize in the 2012 POMS College of Supply Chain Management Student Paper Competition
    - Finalist in the 2012 MSOM Student Paper Competition
• Comparison as Incentive: Newsvendor Decisions in a Social Context, with Zeina Lout, Jurgen Mihm, Elena Belavina and Steffen Keck, Production and Operations Management, 23(2), 303-313, 2014
• Optimal Staffing with Endogenous Goals, joint with Ioana Popescu and Francis de Vericourt, Working Paper
• Sustainable Sourcing and Capacity Investment in Urban Water Management, joint with Onur Boyabatli and Stefano Galelli, Work in Progress
• Sustainable Practices in Agriculture: Community Supported Agriculture, joint with Li Bin, Work in Progress
• Optimal Location Problem of a Battery Switching Infrastructure Provider, joint with Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine, Work in Progress