A senior academician with over 15 years of teaching experience in industrial engineering holds a Ph.D. (2009, University of Louisville, USA, NSF-funded dissertation on autonomous warehouse systems) and M.Sc./B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Turkish universities. They currently serve as a Senior Lecturer at Cranfield University’s School of Management (UK, since 2021), leading core/elective courses (Inventory & Operations Management, Six Sigma) for graduate/executive students and supervising MSc/PhD researchers.
Their research focuses on automated warehousing, logistics, and sustainable supply chains, leveraging discrete event simulation, agent-based modeling, and reinforcement learning. As Principal Investigator (PI), they lead international projects (e.g., EPSRC-SFI AI-powered e-retail logistics, £660k budget) and industry collaborations (Affinity Water, UK). They have a strong publication record (h-index 30, 4265 Google Scholar citations), edited books on warehouse design, and previously served as an Associate Professor at Yasar University (Turkey). A post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Louisville further honed their expertise in optimizing U.S. Defense Logistics Agency warehouses.