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Associate Professor
Industrial Engineering
Ozyegin University
Turkey

Professor Engineering
Biography

Dr. Balçık received her Ph.D. (2008) in Industrial Engineering from University of Washington, and her M.S. (2003) and B.S. (2003) degrees in Industrial Engineering from Middle East Technical University. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University (2008-2009). Her main research interests are in the areas of humanitarian logistics, disaster management, supply chain management, mathematical modeling and heuristic methods.

Research Intrest

Design and management of humanitarian relief chains and other nonprofit operations, mathematical modeling, heuristic methods, metaheuristic algorithms

List of Publications
Huang, M., Smilowitz, K., Balcik, B., 2012. “Models for relief routing: Equity, Efficiency, and Efficacy”, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 48(1), 2-18.
Noyan N., Balcik, B. and Atakan, B., 2016. “A Stochastic Optimization Model for Designing Last Mile Relief Networks”, Transportation Science, 50 (3),/ 1092-1113.
Balcik, B., Bozkir, C.D.C., Kundakcioglu, O.E., 2016. “A literature review on inventory management in humanitarian supply chains“, to appear.
Balcik, B., 2017. “Site Selection and Vehicle Routing for Post-Disaster Rapid Needs Assessment”, Transportation Research Part E, to appear

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