Graduated PhD Students:

Oğuzhan Alagoz, August 2001-July 2004. Dissertation title: Optimal Policies for the Acceptance of Living- and Cadaveric-Donor Livers. Dr. Alagoz received an Honorable Mention for the 2005 George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award given by INFORMS for the “best dissertation in any area of operations research.” Current position: Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin at Madison. 

Nan Kong, August 2000-December 2005.  Dissertation title: Optimizing the Efficiency of the United States Organ Allocation System through Region Reorganization. Dr. Kong received an Honorable Mention for the 2006 George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award given by INFORMS for the “best dissertation in any area of operations research.” He also won the 2007 Pritsker Dissertation Award given by the Institute of Industrial Engineers. Current position: Assistant Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University.

Zhouyan Wang, August 2001-February 2006. (Co-advised with J. Rajgopal.) Dissertation title: Integrated Supply Chain Design and Management for Remnant Inventory Systems.  Current position: Senior Manager, American Express.

Steven Shechter, January 2002-July 2006. Dissertation title: Optimal Scheduling of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapies for H.I.V. Patients. Recipient of the 2004 Bonder Prize for Health Care given by INFORMS. Current position: Assistant Professor in the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia.

Jennifer Kreke, August 2001-July 2007. (Co-advised with Matt Bailey.) Dissertation title: Modeling Disease Management Decisions for Patients with Pneumonia-Related Sepsis. Recipient of an AT&T graduate fellowship (one of four given nationally each year). Current position: Fedex Ground.

Mehmet Can Demirci, August 2003- May 2008. Dissertation title: Designing the Liver Allocation Hierarchy: Incorporating Equity and Uncertainty. Current position: Algorithm Design Engineer, SmartOps.

Burhaneddin Sandikci, June 2004-June 2008. (Co-advised with Lisa Maillart). Recipient of the 2007 Bonder Prize for Health Care given by INFORMS. Dissertation title: Estimating the Price of Privacy in Liver Transplantation. Current Position: Assistant Professor of Operations Management in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago.

Current PhD Students: 

Görkem Saka, August 2003-Present. (Co-advised with Lisa Maillart). Ms. Saka will join Merck Research upon graduation.

Murat Kurt, August 2005-Present.

Robert Koppenhaver, August 2005-Present.

Sakine Batun, August 2006-Present.

Osman Ozaltin, August 2007-Present.

Sepehr Proon, January 2008-Present.