But Planter
Associate Professor
Industrial Engineering
Ozyegin University
Turkey
Biography
Dr. Ali Ekici received B.Sc. degrees in Mathematics and Industrial Engineering from Middle East Technical University in 2003. Later, he received M.Sc. degree in Operations Research in 2006 and Ph.D. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering in 2009 from Georgia Institute of Technology. After completing his Ph.D., Dr. Ekici has worked in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Houston for four years. Dr. Ekici has research experience in health and humanitarian logistics, disease spread modeling and scheduling/packing applications
Research Interest
Healthcare applications, disease spread modeling, humanitarian/healthcare logistics, supply chain management, industry applications of scheduling/packing
Publications
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A. Ekici, P. Keskinocak and J.L. Swann. Modeling influenza pandemic and planning food distribution. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 16(1), 11-27, 2014.
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A. Mobasher, A. Ekici and O.O. Ozener. Coordinating collection and appointment scheduling operations at the blood donation sites. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 87, 260-266, 2015.
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A. Ekici, O.O. Ozener and G. Kuyzu. Cyclic delivery schedules for an inventory routing problem. Transportation Science, 49(4), 817-829, 2015.
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A. Ekici, B. Altan and O.O. Ozener. Pricing decisions in a strategic single retailer/dual suppliers setting under order size constraints. To appear in International Journal of Production Research.
