Metin Turkay on Clubhouse

Bio

Chair, Department of Industrial Engineering, Koç University
Founder, SmartOpt

Holds PhD from Carnegie Mellon University (1996) and MS (1991) and BS degrees (1989) from Middle East Technical University.

His research focuses on optimizations theory, mixed-integer programming, and development of novel solution algorithms for mixed-integer programming problems and machine learning.

He applies theoretical developments on energy planning, sustainable energy, sustainable supply chain management and logistics, design of transportation system with special emphasis on sustainable supply chain and logistics and systems biology.

Worked as principal consultant on optimization technologies at Mitsubishi Corporation Mizushima Research Center.

His doctoral work and publications on generalized disjunctive programming was recognized with the 1997 Ted Peterson Student Paper Award by Computing and Systems Technology Division of AIChE.

He is the recipient of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) Career Award (2005), the TÜBİTAK Young Researcher Incentive Award (2006).

He received Turkey’s first IBM Shared University Research Award (2007), the IBM Faculty Award (2009) and the Open Collaborative Research Award by IBM Haifa Research (2012).

He won the The Most Successful Koc Employee Award in 2019 for his work on the improvement of inbound logistics operations at Arcelik.

He set up the Koc-IBM Supply Chain Research Center with funds from the IBM Shared University Research Award. He is the elected Chair of the EURO Working Group on Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine.