Bahar Yetis Kara

CURRICULUM VITAE

Bahar Yetis Kara 
 

1. Personal Data:

Date and Place of Birth  : May 8, 1970, Eskişehir – Turkey

Address    : Department of Industrial Engineering

                                Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara-Turkey

Phone    : + 90 312 290 3156

Fax    : + 90 312 266 4054

E-mail    : bkara@bilkent.edu.tr

URL    : http://www.bilkent.edu.tr 


2. Academic Degrees
 


Assoc. Prof.   Industrial Engineering Department, 2006

   Higher Educational Council of Turkey, 2004. 


Ph.D    Industrial Engineering Department, 1999

                              Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. 


M.S.    Industrial Engineering Department, 1994

                              Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. 


B.S.    Industrial Engineering Department, 1992

                              Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. 
 
 
 


3. Research Interests
 


Facility Location,

Hub Location,

Hazardous Materials Logistics,

Vehicle Routing Problems,

Network Design. 
 
 


4. Employment History
 


Mart 2006 –    Associate Professor,

   Bilkent University, Department of Industrial Engineering 


October 2001-   Assistant Professor,

March 2006   Bilkent University, Department of Industrial Engineering. 


February 2001 -   Instructor,

September 2001   Bilkent University, Department of Industrial Engineering. 


February 1999 -   Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

October 2000   McGill University, Faculty of Management, Canada. 


September 1992 -   Teaching & Research Assistant

January 1999   Bilkent University, Department of Industrial Engineering. 
 
 
 
 


5. Awards and Research Grants
 


Recipient of the TUBA-GEBIP (Young Scientist) Award 2008-2011.  


Winner of the UPS-SOLA Bi-Annual Dissertation Award for the years June 1999 - June 2001. 


Research Development Grant from Bilkent University. 2003. Software support of $1500. 


Teaching and Research Assistantship from Bilkent University during Ph.D and M.S studies. 


Full Scholarship for B.Sc. Education in Bilkent University, 1988-1992. 
 
 


6. Teaching
1. Graduate Courses 
   

IE 579 Selected Topics in Locational Research

IE 505 Mathematical Programming 


2. Undergraduate Courses
 


      IE 202 Introduction to Modelling and Optimization

IE 303 Modelling and Methods in Optimization

      IE 400 Principles of Engineering Management

      IE 477 Production Systems Design-Synthesis

      IE 478 Production Systems Design-Practice

      IE 479 Distribution Logistics

      IE 496 Seminar in Production Systems 
 
 


7. Membership to Professional Societies
 


INFORMS, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Science

YAEM, Operational Research Society of Turkey.

Management Science Research Center, McGill University. 
 
 


8. Graduate Student Supervision
• Sibel Alumur, Ph.D., Hub Location Problem, Expected graduation date July 2009. 
  
• Hünkar Toyoğlu, Ph.D, Location Routing Problem and Mobile Distribution Systems, Expected graduation date July 2009 joint supervision with Oya Karaşan. 
  
• Tuğçe Akbaş, MS, Blocking in Rail transportation, Expected graduation date December 2009. 
  
• Hatice Çalık, The hub covering problem over incomplete hub networks, Expected graduation date January 2009, joint supervision with Oya Karaşan. 
  
• Pınar Z. Tan, M.S., Analysis of the Hub Location Problem Specific to Cargo Delivery Systems: A Large Scale Implementation for Turkey, September 2002. 
  
• Hakan Ümit, M.S., A GIS Based Analysis  for Transportation of Hazardous Materials from Different Perspectives, September 2002. 
  
• Murat Uluğ, M.S., Location of Natural Disasters Search and Rescue (SAR) Units in Sectors, July 2003. 
  
• Sibel Alumur, M.S., The Hazardous Waste Location-Routing Problem, December 2003. 
  
• Evren Emek, M.S., A Unified Model for Hazardous Waste Management Problem: Application in Turkey, December 2003. 
  
• Oğuz Şöhret, M.S., Placement of Express Links in a DWDM Optical Network, July 2005. 
  
• Murat Kalaycılar, M.S., The Multi-allocation Hub Covering Problem, February 2006. 
  
• Seda Elmastaş, M.S., 2-level Hub Location Problem for Cargo Delivery Systems, December 2006, joint supervision with Hande Yaman. 
  
9. Scholarly Work 
    
    
   
1. Ph.D. Dissertation 
   

“Analysis of the Hub Location Problems”. February 1999. Supervisor: Barbaros C. Tansel. Bilkent University. 


2. Refereed publications
1. Alumur S and B.Y. Kara (2009?) “A hub Covering Network Design Problem for Cargo Applications in Turkey”, Journal of the Operational Research Society, to appear 
   
2. Kara I. B.Y. Kara, ve M. K. Yetis, (2008), “Cumulative Vehicle Routing Problems”, book chapter in Vehicle Routing Problem, I-Tech edited by T. Caric and H. Gold, pp 85-98. 
   
3. Alumur S and B.Y.Kara, (2008) “Network Hub Location Problems: state of the art” EJOR 190(1), 1-21. 
   
4. Kara B.Y. and V. Verter, (2008)  "Hazmat Transportation Problem: A Path Based Approach” Management Science, 51(1), 29-40 
   
5. Kara I. B.Y. Kara, ve M. K. Yetis, (2007), “Energy Minimizing Vehicle Routing Problem”, Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences ,4616, 62-71 
   
6. Alp O., B.Y.Kara, and I. Sabuncuoglu (2007) “Practice Abstracts edited by Brian Denton “MAN Turkey Improves the Performance of Its Assembly Line by Managing In-House Parts”, Interfaces, 37(4), 353-354. 
   
7. Yaman H., B.Y. Kara, and B.C. Tansel, (2007) “The Latest Arrival Hub Location Problem For Cargo Delivery Systems with Stopovers” Transportation Research B, 41(8), 906-919.  
   
8. Tan P. and B.Y. Kara (2007) “A Hub Covering Model for Cargo Delivery Systems”, Networks, 49(1), 28-39. 
   
9. Alumur S. and B.Y. Kara (2007) “A New Model on Hazardous Waste Location-Routing Problem”, Computer and Operations Research 34, 1406-1423. 
   
10. Emek E. and B.Y. Kara (2007) “Hazardous Waste Management Problem: The case for incineration”, Computer and Operations Research 34, 1424-1441. 
    
11. Berman O., V. Verter  and B. Y. Kara (2007) " Designing Emergency Response Networks for Hazardous Materials Transportation ", Computers and Operations Research 34, 1374-1388. 
    
12. Kara B.Y. and V. Verter (2004) "Designing a Road Network for Hazardous Materials Transportation”, Transportation Science, 38(2), 188-196. 
    
13. Kara B.Y., E. Erkut, and V. Verter (2003), “Accurate Calculation of Hazardous Materials Transport Risks", Operations Research Letters, 31, 285-292. 
    
14. Kara B.Y. and B.C. Tansel (2003), “The Single Assignment Hub Covering Problem: Models and Linearizations”, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 54, 59-64. 
    
15. Ümit H. and B. Y. Kara (2003) “A GIS Based Analysis for Transportation of Hazardous Materials: Application in Shell Turkey”(in Turkish), Transactions on Operational Research, 15 (1,2). 
    
16. Verter V. and B.Y. Kara (2001), " Hazardous Materials Transport Risk Assessment: A Large Scale Implementation" Risk Analysis, 21(6), 1109-1120. 
    
17. Tansel B., B.Y. Kara, and I. Sabuncuoglu. (2001) "Single Machine Total Tardiness Scheduling Problem” IIE Transactions, 33, 661-674. 
    
18. Kara B.Y. and B. Tansel (2001), "The Latest Arrival Hub Location Problem” Management Science 47(10), 1408-1420. 
    
19. Kara B.Y. and B. Tansel (2000), "On The Single Assignment p-Hub Center Problem” European Journal of Operations Research, 125, 648-655. 
    
3. Non-refereed proceedings 
    
    
   
1. Verter, V. and B.Y. Kara (2002), “The Hazardous Network Design Problem ”, in Proceedings of ISWA 2002 International Workshop on Waste Management, vol. 1, pp.  251-255.  
   
2. Tanrıkulu, M.M. and B.Y. Kara (2004) “The Multi-allocation hub location models” in Proceedings of National OR/IE Congress, Adana, pp 31-33. 
   
4. Presentations 
    
   
 


V. Verter, E. Erkut, ve BY. Kara “State-of-the-art and future research areas of operational research on dangerous transport”, Advanced Technologies and Methodologies for Risk Management in the Global Transport of Dangerous Goods- The NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme, Genoa, Italy, October 2007  


B.Y. Kara “The Hub Location Problem in Cargo Delivery Sector”, Workshop on Hub Location 2007, Trippstadt, Germany, September 2007. 


B.Y. Kara, H. Yaman, and S. Elmastaş, “Hub Location Problem for Air Ground Transportation Systems with Time Restrictions”, EURO 2007, Prag, July 2007. 


S. Alumur and B.Y Kara “The Hub Covering Network Design Problem”, EURO 2007, Prag, July 2007. 


H. Çalık, O. Karasan, and  B.Y.Kara, “Incomplete Hub Center Problem”, YA EM 2006, İzmir, June 2006. 


S. Alumur and B. Y. Kara “Hazardous Waste Location Routing Problem”, ISOLDE X Seville-Islantilla, Spain, June 2005 


M. Kalaycılar and B.Y. Kara “Multi-allocation hub Covering Problem”, ISOLDE X Seville-Islantilla, Spain, June 2005 


Tan P. and B.Y. Kara, “The Hub Location Problem for Cargo Delivery Systems", Optimization 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2004. 


B. Y. Kara and V. Verter " A Path Based Approach for the Hazardous Network Design Problem", INFORMS 2003, İstanbul, Turkey, July 2003. 


Berman O., V. Verter  and B. Y. Kara " The Arc Covering Problem ", INFORMS 2003, İstanbul, Turkey, July 2003. 


S. Alumur and B. Y. Kara “A New Model on Hazardous Waste Location Routing Problem”, INFORMS 2003, İstanbul, Turkey, July 2003. 


E. Emek and B. Y. Kara “A Unified Model for Hazardous Waste Management Problem”, INFORMS 2003, İstanbul, Turkey, July 2003. 


Tan P. and B.Y. Kara, “The Latest Arrival Hub Covering Problem", INFORMS 2003, İstanbul, Turkey, July 2003. 


Kara, B.Y.  “Hazardous Materials Logistics”, The Second Conference on Hazardous Material Environmental and Legislative Dimensions, Amman, Jordan, June 2003. 


Verter V. and B. Y. Kara " Hazardous Materials Transportation: Implementation Issues", ISWA 2002 International Workshop on Waste Management, İstanbul, Turkey, July 2002. 


Kara B.Y. and B. Tansel "The Latest Arrival Hub Location Problem for Cargo Delivery Systems with Stopovers and Feeders" ISOLDE IX New Brunswick , June 2002. 


Kara B.Y. and B. Tansel  "Modeling and Analysis of Issues in Hub Location Problem" invited presentation for the Best Dissertation Award” at the INFORMS National Meeting, Miami, November 2001. 


Kara B.Y. and V. Verter "Hazardous Materials Transportation: Revisiting the Basics", Optimization Days, Montreal, May 2000. 


Verter V. and B. Y. Kara " Hazardous Materials Transportation: Implementation Issues", Odysseus 2000 International Workshop on Freight Transportation and Logistics, Crete, Greece, May 2000. 


Verter V. and B. Y. Kara "Routing of Hazardous Trucks in Quebec and Ontario'', Management Science Research Center Seminar, Montreal, March 2000. 


Kara B.Y. "The Hub Location Problem Logistics”, Logistics Management – McGill University Faculty of Management, Guest Lecturer, March 2000 and March 1999. 


Kara B.Y. and B. Tansel "The p-hub Center Problem”, Optimization Days, Montreal, May 1999. 


Verter V., B.Y. Kara, B. Prakash and A. Bulgak "Hazmat Transportation in Quebec and Ontario", Canadian Transportation Research Forum Seminar, Montreal, April 1999. 


Kara B.Y. " Modeling Aspects of the Hub Location Problem", Management Science Research Center Seminar, Montreal, March 1999. 


Kara B.Y. and B. Tansel "Polynomially Solvable Cases of the Hub Allocation Problems and Extensions to Hub Location" invited presentation at the INFORMS National Meeting, Montreal, April 1998. 


Kara B.Y. and B. Tansel “The p-Hub Center Problem" invited presentation at the INFORMS National Meeting Montreal, April 1998. 


Kara B.Y. and B. Tansel "On The Equivalence of Hub Allocation Problem with Restricted MMC" ISOLDE VII Alberta, July 1996. 


Kara B.Y. and B. Tansel "On Hub Allocation Phase of the Hub Location Problem", EWGLA 9 Birmingham, England 1996. 


Kara B.Y. and B. Tansel “Modeling Variations in Hub Network Design" invited presentation at the INFORMS National Meeting, Atlanta, November 1996. 


Tansel B, B.Y. Kara, and I. Sabuncuoglu “Advances in Solvable Sizes of Single Facility Total Tardiness Scheduling" INFORMS National Meeting, New Orleans, November 1995. 
 


10. Contributions to Bilkent University
• Member of Engineering Faculty Executive Council 2003-2006
• Chair of Industrial Engineering Department Undergraduate Curriculum Development Committee
• Member of Industrial Engineering Department Graduate Program Committee
• Organization of Industrial Enginnering Project Fair and Competition (years 2002-2007)
• Member of several Qualifying exam committes