Burçin Bozkaya

Burcin Bozkaya is an Associate Professor of Operations Management and the Associate Dean at Sabanci School of Management. Burcin earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering at Bilkent University and his Ph.D. in Management Science at the School of Business of the University of Alberta. Prior to joining Sabanci University in 2004, Burcin worked as a Senior Operations Research Analyst at Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), Inc., in Redlands, California. During this industry work experience, Burcin participated in and led many software development projects specializing in the applications of GIS and Operations Research in transportation and logistics optimization. In one such project, he received INFORMS Franz Edelman Finalist Award, for a project completed for Schindler Elevator Corporation. Since 2004, Burcin teaches courses on Operations Management, Geographic Information Systems, Customer Relationship Management with Location Intelligence, Quantitative Decision Making and Excel/VBA Programming. He conducts research on Spatial Analytics, Location Analysis, Transportation Network Planning and Vehicle Routing Optimization, and Combinational Optimization using Heuristic Algorithms, and has published in various international journals. He is a recipient of IEEE 2008 Best Paper Award, and the 2010 Canadian Operational Research Society’s Best Practice Prize. Burcin is a father of two and enjoys playing his guitar and flute, and traveling in his (not-so-easy-to-find) free time.

Publications

An Interactive Tool for Visualizing and Analyzing Spatio-Temporal Data
An Interactive Tool for Visualizing and Analyzing Spatio-Temporal Data
Alican Turk, Selim Saffet Balcisoy, Burcin Bozkaya. © 2017. 24 pages.
Spatio-temporal data analysis has gained a degree of importance with the emergence of widespread location sensor technologies and applications generating data from activities...
Geo-Intelligence and Visualization through Big Data Trends
Geo-Intelligence and Visualization through Big Data Trends
Burçin Bozkaya, Vivek Kumar Singh. © 2015. 348 pages.
The last decade has seen a tremendous increase in the volume of data collected from personal and professional sources. While there have been many computational approaches...
Assessing Financial Well-Being of Merchants by Analyzing Behavioral Patterns in Historical Transactions
Assessing Financial Well-Being of Merchants by Analyzing Behavioral Patterns in Historical Transactions
Kumar Abhinav Srivastava, Vivek Kumar Singh, Burcin Bozkaya, Alex “Sandy” Pentland. © 2015. 18 pages.
This study focuses on a new approach to estimate financial wellbeing indicators for merchants, by looking at behavioral patterns of their customers using transaction history. The...
An Interactive Tool for Visualizing and Analyzing Spatio-Temporal Data
An Interactive Tool for Visualizing and Analyzing Spatio-Temporal Data
Alican Turk, Selim Saffet Balcisoy, Burcin Bozkaya. © 2015. 29 pages.
Spatio-temporal data analysis has gained a degree of importance with the emergence of widespread location sensor technologies and applications generating data from activities...
Online Grocery Provision Resistance: Understanding Urban (Non-) Collaboration and Ambiguous Supply Chain Environments
Online Grocery Provision Resistance: Understanding Urban (Non-) Collaboration and Ambiguous Supply Chain Environments
Ronan de Kervenoael, Burcin Bozkaya, Mark Palmer. © 2013. 24 pages.
This chapter investigates the resistance by institutional actors in ambiguous supply chain environments for online grocery provision. Recent studies have shown that significant...
Routing Solutions for the Service Industry
Routing Solutions for the Service Industry
Burcin Bozkaya, Buyang Cao, Kaan Aktolug. © 2012. 33 pages.
First introduced by Dantzig and Ramser over 50 years ago, vehicle routing problems (VRP) have drawn the attention of both academic researchers and practitioners due to its...
Online Grocery Provision Resistance: Understanding Urban (Non-) Collaboration and Ambiguous Supply Chain Environments
Online Grocery Provision Resistance: Understanding Urban (Non-) Collaboration and Ambiguous Supply Chain Environments
Ronan de Kervenoael, Burcin Bozkaya, Mark Palmer. © 2011. 24 pages.
This chapter investigates the resistance by institutional actors in ambiguous supply chain environments for online grocery provision. Recent studies have shown that significant...