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ONUR KAYA
Department of Industrial Engineering
Koç University, Sarıyer 34450, İstanbul, Turkey
Phone: 90 (212) 338-1534 Fax: 90 (212) 338-1548
e-mail: [email protected]
RESEARCH INTERESTS
 Revenue Management, Production and Inventory systems, Supply Chain
Management, Stochastic Modeling, Scheduling and Due-Date Quotation
EDUCATION
 Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
University of California, Berkeley (Aug 2002 - December 2006)
Thesis Title: MTO-MTS Production Systems in Supply Chains
Minors: Economics and Statistics
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M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
University of California, Berkeley (Aug 2002 - Dec 2003)
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M.A. in Statistics
Department of Statistics
University of California, Berkeley (Aug 2004- May 2006)
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B.S. in Industrial Engineering
Middle East Technical University (METU) (Sept 1998 – June 2002)
Minor: International Economics
EXPERIENCE
 Assistant Professor at Koç University (Jan 2007 - …..)
Department of Industrial Engineering İstanbul, Turkey
Taught courses:
Eng 100: Introduction to Industrial Engineering
Indr 202: Engineering Economics
Indr 363: Mathematical Programming
Indr 502: Supply Chain Systems and Logistics
Indr 564: Dynamic Programming
Indr 578: Advanced Models in Supply Chain Management
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Research Assistant at UC Berkeley, Department of IEOR (2002-2006)
Teaching Assistant at UC Berkeley
IEOR 153: Logistics Network Design and Supply Chain Management
IEOR 250: Introduction to Production Planning and Logistics Models
Contract based technical staff at Siemens TTB, Berkeley, CA(May - Aug 2005)
Part Time Technical Staff at ASELSAN A.S. Research & Planning Directorship,
Ankara (Jan 2002 - June 2002)
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Student Assistant at METU. (Sept. 2001 - June 2002)
IE 322: Production Planning
IE 347: Engineering Economy and Cost Analysis
Internship at the Project Evaluation Dept. of Development Bank of Turkey,
Ankara (July 2001 - Aug 2001)
Internship at TEMSA Automotive Company, Adana (June 2000 - July 2000)
PUBLICATIONS:
Publications in Refereed Journals
 Aksen, D., Kaya, O., Salman, S., Akça, Y. (2012) Selective and Periodic
Inventory Routing Problem for Waste Vegetable Oil Collection, Optimization
Letters, 6(6), pp. 1063-1080.
 Kaya, O. (2011) Outsourcing vs. in-house production: a comparison of
supply chain contracts with effort dependent demand, Omega, 39(2), pp.168178
 Kaya, O. (2010) Incentive and Production Decisions for Remanufacturing
Operations. European Journal of Operational Research, 201(2), pp.442-453
 Kaminsky, P. and O. Kaya, (2009). Combined Make-to-Order/Make-to-Stock
Supply Chains. IIE Transactions, 41(2), pp.103-119.
 Kaminsky, P. and O. Kaya, (2008), Scheduling and Due-Date Quotation in a
MTO Supply Chain, Naval Research Logistics, 55(5), pp. 444-458
 Kaminsky, P. and O. Kaya, (2008). Inventory Positioning, Scheduling, and
Lead Time Quotation in Supply Chains, International Journal of Production
Economics, 114(1), pp.276-293.
Papers under Review
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Kaya, O., Kubali, D., Ormeci., L., A Coordinated Production and Shipment
Model in a Supply Chain, submitted to International Journal of Production
Economics (under second revision)
Kaya, O., A Revenue Management Model with Heterogeneous Customers and
Demand Interactions over Time, submitted to Production and Operations
Management.
Kaya, O., Kubali, D., Ormeci., L., Stochastic Models for the Coordinated
Production and Shipment Problem in a Supply Chain, submitted to Computers
and Industrial Engineering
Bağcı, F., Kaya, O., Turkay, M. Production Planning with Randomness in
Remanufacturing Systems
Publications in Conference Proceedings
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Kaya, O. and A.L. Polat, 2012, Joint Pricing and Inventory Decisions for
Perishable Products
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Kaminsky, P. and O. Kaya. 2006. MTO-MTS Production Systems in Supply
Chains. Proceedings of the 2006 NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing
Research Conference.
Kaminsky, P. and O. Kaya. 2005. Scheduling of Large Scale Systems:
Probabilistic Analysis and Practical Algorithms for Due Date Quotation.
Proceedings of the 2005 NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Research
Conference.
Kaminsky, P. and O. Kaya. 2005. Centralized Versus Decentralized
Scheduling and Due Date Quotation in a Make-to-Order Supply Chain.
Proceedings of the 2005 MSOM Conference.
Work in Progress
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Kaya, O., Urek, B., Facility Location and Pricing in Closed Loop Supply
Chains
Bilgin, A., Kaya, O., Karaesmen, F., Pricing and Inventory Decisions with
Risk Considerations
Kaya, O., Özkok, D., Inventory-Location-Routing Problem for Stocking of
Blood Cells at Hospitals
Kaya, O., Polat, A.L., Pricing and Inventory Decisions for the Substitutable
and Perishable Products
CONFERENCES AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS
 4th P&OM World Conference, Amsterdam (July 2012)
 YAEM Ulusal Kongresi (June 2012)
 Applied Probability Society Conference, Stockholm (July 2011)
 EURO XXIV, Lisbon (July 2010)
 YAEM 30. Ulusal Kongresi (June 2010)
 INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego (October 2009)
 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington DC (October 2008)
 Middle East Technical University Seminar Series (October 2008)
 Bogaziçi University Seminar Series (Jan 2008)
 EURO XXII, Prague, 2007 (June 2007)
 Graduate Student Workshop, UC Berkeley (April 2006)
 INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco (November 2005)
 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Denver (November 2004)
 Graduate Student Seminar, UC Berkeley (October 2004)
SUPERVISED M.S. THESES
 Serra Caner, Capacity Contracts in Supply Chains under Symmetric and
Asymmetric Information, August 2009
 Deniz Kubali, Coordination of Production and Dispatching Decisions in Supply
Chain Models, May 2010 (Co-supervised with Lerzan Örmeci)
 Yeliz Akça, Periodic Vehicle Routing for the Collection of End-of-use Products,
Aug. 2011 (Co-supervised with Sibel Salman)
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Fatih Bagci, Production Planning with Randomness in Remanufacturing Systems,
Aug. 2011 (Co-supervised with Metin Türkay)
Büsra Urek, Facility Location and Pricing for a Closed Loop Supply Chain,
Expected Dec 2011
Abdullah Bilgin, Pricing and Inventory Decisions with Risk Considerations,
Expected Jan 2012 (Co-supervised with Fikri Karaesmen)
Özge Tuncel, Heuristics for the Selective Periodic Inventory Routing Problem,
Expected Aug 2012 (Co-supervised with Sibel Salman)
Doğuş Özkök, Inventory-Location-Routing Problem for Blood Cells at Hospitals,
Expected Aug 2012
Aylin Lelizar Polat, Pricing and Inventory Decisions for the Substitutable and
Perishable Products, Expected Aug 2012
SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS
 TUBITAK 1001 Project Award – Fall 2011
 KOLT Teaching Innovation Grant - Spring 2011
 Fellowship from University of California, Berkeley graduate program
 Ranked 1st (among 1.5 million students) in University Entrance Exam (OSS) in
Turkey – June 1998
 Ranked 3rd (among approx. 80,000 university graduates) in Graduate Program
Entrance Exam (LES) in Turkey – Dec 2001
 METU High Honor Certificate for 8 semesters
 Scholarship awarded from METU (1998 – 2002)
 Gold Medal in National Mathematics Olympics - 1997
 Bronze Medal in International Mathematics Olympics – 1997
PROJECTS
 Tubitak 1001 Project – Kısa Ömürlü Dayanıksız Ürünler için Koordineli Envanter
ve Fiyat Yönetimi (Nisan 2011 - …)
 Optimization of the locations, power levels and frequencies of access points for a
wireless local area network and coding for the implementation for Siemens TTB.
Patent application made for the algorithm and product designed.(May 2005 - Aug
2005).
 Logistics design and optimization of the workloads and transportation routes for
the milk trucks of Safeway Co., CA (June 2003 - Sept 2003)
 System Design Project for Logistics and Warehouse Design for Efes Pilsen
Company, Ankara (Jan 2002 - June 2002)
 Database Study for the Education Department of the State Planning Organization
of Turkey (Sept 2001 - Jan 2002)
 Feasibility Study for the extension of a rapid transportation route (Sept 2001 - Jan
2002)
 Feasibility Study for a paper production company (Jan 2001 - June 2001)
 Ergonomy Project for the design of controls and interior of a car (Jan 2001 - June
2001)
 Work & Time Study for the operations at METU Cafeteria (Sep 2000 - Jan 2001)
Professional Activities and Memberships
 Member of IIE, YAEM, Informs, APS
 Reviewer for European Journal of Operational Research, Omega, International
Journal of Management Science International Journal of Production Economics,
Operations Research Letters, IIE Transactions, Production and Operations
Management