Title
Founding Rector
Institution / Organization
Abdullah Gul University, Turkey
Bio
Prof. Sabuncuoğlu is the founding rector of Abdullah Gul University. He earned his BS and MS in industrial engineering from Middle East Technical University, in 1982 and 1984, respectively. He earned his PhD in industrial engineering from Wichita State University in 1990. Dr. Sabuncuoğlu worked for Boeing, Pizza Hut and the National Institute of Health in the United States during his PhD studies. He joined Bilkent University (Turkey) in 1990, where he worked as a full-time faculty member until 2013. In the meantime, he held visiting positions at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States and at Institut Français de Mécanique Avancée (IFMA) in France. His research interests are in real-time scheduling, simulation optimization, and applications of quantitative methods to cancer-related health-care problems. His research has been funded by TUBITAK (The Scientific and Research Council of Turkey) and EUREKA (a European-wide initiative to foster European competitiveness through cooperation among companies and research institutions in the field of advanced technologies). Dr. Sabuncuoglu also has significant industrial experience in aerospace, automotive, and military-based defense systems. His industrial projects are sponsored by a number of both national and international companies.
In addition to publishing more than a hundred papers in international journals and conference proceedings, Prof. Sabuncuoğlu has edited five books. He is on the editorial board of a number of scientific journals in the areas of industrial engineering and operations research. He is a member of the Institute of Industrial Engineering, the Institute of Operations Research, the Management Sciences, and the Simulation Society. He is also a member of the Council of Industrial Engineering Academic Department Heads (CIEADH) and various other professional and social committees.
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