CIPLS 2014 Keynote Speaker

Fatih Tasgetiren

Talk Title:Heuristic algorithms for scheduling problems

Dr. M. Fatih Tasgetiren received his BSc and MSc degrees in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 1982 and 1988, respectively. He was in the PhD program in Operations Management at Bosphorus University in Istanbul between 1988 and 1991. He received his PhD degree in Operations Management from Istanbul University in 1996. He worked as a faculty member in various universities such as Sakarya University (Turkey), Auburn University (USA), University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa (USA), University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (PR), Fatih University (Turkey), and Sultan Qaboos University (Oman). He is currently a full professor in the Industrial Engineering Department at Yasar University, Izmir, Turkey. He is the director of the Reserach and Development Center at Yasar University.

Dr. M. Fatih Tasgetiren's research interest is in heuristic optimization applied to both continuous and discrete/combinatorial optimization problems, especially to production scheduling problems. He has published about 30 journal papers, 70 conference papers and 15 book chapters. His citation is currently 1024 and h-index is 17 (ISI Web of Knowledge, July, 2014). His google scholar citation and h-index are 2759 and 29, respectively.