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Berk Kaya
Berk Kaya is a part time research assistant at the Department of Industrial Engineering. He received his BS degree from Yaşar University in 2021. He continues his MSc studies in Industrial Engineering at Yaşar University. While continuing his undergraduate education, he worked as scholarship student for Tübitak. His research areas include simulation, optimization in simulation and supply chain.




Ege Duran
Ege Duran is currently working as a part-time research assistant at the Department of Industrial Engineering at Yaşar University, Izmir, Turkey. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from Yaşar University in 2019. She also completed the Double Major Program in Yasar University, Department of International Trade and Finance. She started her Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering at Yaşar University in 2019. She is interested in researching topics, heuristic optimization, modeling, and scheduling.
– Yaşar University (Industrial Engineering, 2019)




Gamze Erdem
Gamze Erdem is a part time research assistant at the Industrial Engineering Department. She got her Bachelor’s Degree from Bilkent University, Department of Industrial Engineering in 2011. She worked as a New Graduate at Japan Tobacco International and as a Credit Specialist at Garanti Bank. After 6 years of working experience in the private sector, she enrolled to the Master’s Degree Program in Industrial Engineering Department at Yasar University with full scholarship. In the first year of the Master’s Program, she assisted “Cost Analysis” and “Work Systems” courses. In the Fall Semester of the second year of the Master’s program she studied at University of Malta as an Erasmus+ student with full grant. After completing Erasmus+ program, she worked on “Fair Single Source Capacitated Facility Location Problem” as a Master’s thesis at Yasar University. She had Tubitak Scholarship during the Master’s program and she got her Master’s Degree in 2021.




Gözde Ulutagay
Prof.Dr. Gözde Ulutagay received her BSc in Statistics from Ege University in 2001 with honors. She earned her MSc and PhD degrees from Ege University in 2004 and Dokuz Eylul University in 2009, respectively. She received an honorary certificate from the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences in Dokuz Eylül University due to her researches published during her PhD studies. She also received “The Best Method Approach and Application” award at the International Brain Biophysics and Bioengineering Congress. She worked as a Research Assistant at Ege University between 2001-2006 and as a TUBITAK Project Scholar at Dokuz Eylul University between 2006-2009. She was with the Computer Science Department at the University of Texas, El Paso as a Visiting Researcher in 2011. She has been working as a Full Professor at Istanbul Gedik University Industrial Engineering Department since March 2020. Dr. Ulutagay’s main research interests include, but are not limited to, Fuzzy Clustering Methods, Data Mining, Multivariate Statistics, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics. She is teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in these areas. She has served as the Principal Investigator and Researcher in many projects funded by TUBİTAK, COST and TWAS. Dr. Ulutagay is the author of more than 80 articles and conference papers, which were cited more than 400 times by international researchers.




Halil Posacı
He graduated from Middle East Technical University in 1978 having a BS for Industrial Engineering. Obtained an MBA degree from Dokuz Eylul University on Planning and Organization in 1995. As a manager in a bank had a lucky thesis for “IT structuring for Strategic Management in banks”. Worked in his own or partner companies between 1980 – 1991 on Information Technology marketing and software development, solar systems development, agricultural and farming investments. Worked in Tarişbank between 1991 – 2000 as planning specialist first then Manager for the “Information Systems and Planning-Organization” department. Become Information Technology coordinator of the smart ticketing system of İzmir Municipality from 2000 till retirement in 2010 as employed in İzulaş. Start teaching at the University Of Economics in the same period and continued till 2014. Teaching at Yasar University till 1917.
– Middle East Technical University (Industrial Engineering, 1978)
– Dokuz Eylül University (Business Administration, 1995)




Haluk Eliş
Haluk Eliş has received his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Turkish Army Academy, Ankara, Turkey in 1993. Dr. Eliş obtained M.Sc. degree in Management from the Systems Management Department in Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), CA., USA in 1999, where he ranked first in graduation, graduated ‘with distinction’ and received the ‘Outstanding Student Award’, the highest award given to a student. He has a PhD in Industrial Engineering that he completed at Bilkent University, Ankara, in 2017. He has taught ‘Statistics’, ‘Manpower Planning’ and ‘Management’ at the Army Academy between 2000-2002. In 2018-2019 academic year, he gave undergraduate (Stochastic Processes) and graduate courses (Mathematics of Operations Research, Stochastic Processes) in İzmir University of Economics. He is currently a part-time lecturer at Yaşar University, where he teaches ‘Case Studies in Operations Research’, ‘Decision Models’, and ‘Data Mining for Business Intelligence’. Dr. Eliş’ current research interests are the mathematics of Operations Research, and optimization theory and applications. As an example to his study of optimization studies, he located minimum number of guards (base stations, cameras etc.) on a piece of a terrain such that all of the terrain can be surveilled with no dead zone existing, and this study has been published in OMEGA. He had a chance to apply the OR techniques and models to the real-world problems faced by the Ministry of National Defense and by other firms.
– Turkish Army Academy (Civil Engineering, 1993)
– Naval Postgraduate School (Management, 1999)
– Bilkent University (Industrial Engineering, 2017)




Mehrdad Tamiz
Prof. Dr. Mehrdad Tamiz is teaching at Department of Industrial Engineering at Yasar University. He got his Bachelor’s Degree from Mathematics with Operational Research Department of Chelsea College, University of London in 1981. He got his Doctorate Degree from Department of Mathematics and Statistics of Brunel University, UK. He has given Operational Research course at University of Portsmouth between 1991 and 2006. Then he has worked as a Professor of Operational Research at University of Kuwait and as an adjunct Professor at Laurentian University, Canada between 2006 and 2017. He taught various OR, Mathematical Programming, Operations Management, Optimisation, Quantitative Finance, Logistics, Management Science, Supply Chain Management, Quality Management and Technology Management courses throughout his career. His core research interests include modelling and solving linear, integer, multi-objective, and goal programming problems. He has supervised numerous research projects, had conferences and publications as well as books throughout his career.




Selen Burçak Akkaya
Selen Burçak Akkaya is working as a part time research assistant at the Department of Industrial Engineering at Yasar University, Izmir, Turkey. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from Yaşar University in 2018. She started her Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering at Yaşar University in 2018. Her interested research topics are scheduling, vehicle routing and optimization problems.
– Yaşar University (Industrial Engineering, 2018)




Yavuz Gazibey
Lisans eğitimini Kara Harp Okulu Sistem Mühendisliği Bölümü’nde tamamlamıştır. Sırasıyla Gazi Üniversitesi’nden Endüstri Mühendisliği ve İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi’nden Savunma Teknolojileri (Enerji Teknolojileri) Bölümlerinden yüksek lisans dereceleri almıştır. Doktora derecesini Kara Harp Okulu Savunma Bilimleri Enstitüsü’nden Teknoloji Yönetimi alanında almıştır. Kara Harp Okulu Endüstri ve Sistem Mühendisliği Bölümü, TOBB ETÜ İşletme Bölümü ve Girne Üniversitesi Havacılık Yönetimi Bölümü’nde öğretim üyeliği görevlerinde bulunmuştur. Halen Yaşar Üniversitesi Endüstri Mühendisliği ve Uluslararası Lojistik Yönetimi Bölümlerinde misafir öğretim üyesi olarak çalışmaktadır. Akademik görevlerinin yanında 2017-2018 yılları arasında Girne Üniversitesi’nde Lojistik Yönetimi Kurucu Bölüm Başkanlığı yapmıştır. “Zırhlı Muharebe Aracı (ZMA) Geliştirme ve İyileştirme Projesi”nde proje üyeliği ve “TSK Planlama, Programlama ve Bütçeleme Sistemi (PPBUS) kapsamında yürütülecek teknoloji odaklı ArGe projelerinin seçimine yönelik karar destek modeli geliştirilmesi” projesinde proje yöneticiliği yapmıştır. Sayısal karar verme yöntemleri, yöneylem araştırması, network (ağ) analizi, hava lojistiği ve havalimanı yönetimi, teknoloji ve inovasyon yönetimi, savunma teknolojileri ve yenilenebilir enerji teknolojileri alanlarında çalışmalar yürütmektedir.
– Kara Harp Okulu (Sistem Mühendisliği, 1994)
– Gazi Üniversitesi (Yüksek Lisans, Endüstri Mühendisliği, 2001)
– İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi (Yüksek Lisans, Savunma Teknolojileri (Enerji Teknolojileri), 2002)
– Kara Harp Okulu (Doktora, Teknoloji Yönetimi, 2012)




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Prof. (PhD) Cahit Helvacı

BSc: Geological Engineering – İstanbul University
MSc: Geological Engineering – İstanbul University
PhD: Geological Engineering – University of Nottingham

Office Number: U-113
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