B.S. in Industrial Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Turkey (1996)
M.S. in Industrial Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Turkey (1998)
M.S. in Operations Research, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A. (2000)
Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A. (2002)

Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (July 2006 - )

Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison (January 2003 -June 2006)

1. "Analysis of an Inventory System under Backorder Correlated Demand and Geometric Supply Process," International Journal of Production Economics 71 (2001), 247-254 (with Refik Gullu and Nesim Erkip).

2. "Partial Pooling in Tandem Lines with Cooperation and Blocking," Queueing Systems 52 (2006), No. 1, 5-30 (with Sigrun Andradottir).

3. "Replicated Batch Means for Steady-State Simulations," Naval Research Logistics 53 (2006), No. 6, 508-524 (with Sigrun Andradottir).

4. "Replicated Batch Means Variance Estimators in the Presence of an Initial Transience," to appear in ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (with Christos Alexopoulos, Sigrun Andradottir, and David Goldsman).

5. "Overlapping Variance Estimators for Simulations," to appear in Operations Research (with Christos Alexopoulos, David Goldsman, Gamze Tokol, and James R. Wilson).

6. Overlapping Variance Estimators for Simulations -Implementation and Evaluation," to appear in INFORMS Journal on Computing (with Christos Alexopoulos, David Goldsman,
Natalie Steiger, Gamze Tokol, and James R. Wilson).

Research Interests:
Stochastic modeling and analysis of manufacturing and service systems
Optimal control of queueing systems
Statistical output analysis for computer simulation
Design and control of manufacturing systems with flexibility
Design and control of health systems with an emphasis on emergency response planning