Simge Küçükyavuz, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering University of Arizona P.O. Box 210020 Tucson, AZ 85721-0020 Phone : 520-621-6559 simge (at) sie (dot) arizona (dot) edu Ph.D., Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California at Berkeley, August 2004 M.S. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California at Berkeley, May 2000 B.S. Industrial Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, June 1998 Office: ENGR 310

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP)
• Large-Scale Optimization
• Optimization under Uncertainty
• Applications of MIP in communications network design, supply chain management, logistics, emergency management and power distribution
• Recent Projects

PUBLICATIONS

• Lot-Sizing with Inventory Bounds and Fixed Costs: Polyhedral Study and Computation, Operations Research, 53(4), 711-730, 2005 with A.Atamtürk.
• Uncapacitated Lot-Sizing with Backlogging: The Convex Hull, CORE Discussion Paper 2007/6, with Y. Pochet, to appear in Mathematical Programming. (Instances)
• An O(n^2) Algorithm for Lot Sizing with Inventory Bounds and Fixed Costs, BCOL Research Report (BCOL.07.02), with A.Atamtürk, Operations Research Letters, 36(3), 297-299, 2008.
• On Stochastic Lot-Sizing Problems with Random Lead Times, with K. Huang, Operations Research Letters, 36(3), 303-308, 2008.
• Branch-and-Price-and-Cut Algorithms for Solving the Reliable h-Paths Problem, with A. K. Andreas and J. C. Smith, to appear in Journal of Global Optimization.
• Three-Partition Inequalities for Capacitated Fixed-Charge Network Polytope, BCOL Research Report (BCOL.06.01), with A.Atamtürk

HONORS AND AWARDS

• National Science Foundation Award #0824480, 2008-2011.
• Excellence at the Student Interface Award, University of Arizona, 2008.
• Graduate Incentives for Growth Award (with L. Lopes and G. Bayraksan), University of Arizona, 2008-2010.
• INFORMS Doctoral Colloquium, 2002.
• International House Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley, 1999-2000.
• Rafael Rodriguez Golden Age Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley, 1998-1999.

TEACHING

• SIE 644 Integer and Combinatorial Optimization (Fall 2006, Spring 2008)
• SIE 340 Deterministic Operations Research (Fall 2007, Fall 2008)
• SIE 544 Linear Programming (Spring 2005, Fall 2007)
• SIE 645 Nonlinear Optimization (Spring 2007)
• SIE 321 Probabilistic Models in Operations Research (Spring 2006)
• SIE 462 Production Systems Analysis (Fall 2004, Fall 2005)
• SIE 463 Facilities and Production Systems Design (Fall 2004, Fall 2005)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• MIP Workshop 2008 Organization Committee
• The MORE Institute
• Graduate Studies Committee (2006- )
• Mathematical Programming Society
• INFORMS
• Women in ORMS
• Reviewer: NSF Panel, Mathematical Programming, Operations Research, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Operations Research Letters, Networks, Journal of Global Optimization, International Journal of Operational Research, Optimization Letters, Computers and Operations Research.