Burcu Keskin

Burcu Keskin
Assistant Professor of Operations Management
Information Systems, Statistics & Management Science
Office: 355 Alston Hall, 205-348-8442
Specialty Areas:

Production/Distribution Network Design, Facility Location, Inventory Control, Supply chain Management, Applied Optimization, Metaheuristics.

Education:

Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey (B.S. and M.S.) and Texas A&M University (Ph.D.).

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations:

Naval Research Logistics, IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, and International Transactions in Operational Research.

Dr. Keskin is an active member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), the Production and Operations Management Society, and the Institute for Industrial Engineers (IIE). She is also the faculty advisor of the INFORMS Student Chapter at the University of Alabama. She is a recipient of the INFORMS Judith Liebman Moving Spirit Award in 2007.

Selected Publications

  • Uster H., B. B. Keskin, and S. Cetinkaya, Integrated Warehouse Location and Inventory Decisions in Three-Tier Distribution Systems, to appear in IIE Transactions, May 2007.

  • Keskin B. B. and H. Uster, A Scatter Search-Based Heuristic to Locate Capacitated Transshipment Points, 34(10), 3112-3125, October 2007.

  • Keskin B. B. and H. Uster, Meta-heuristic Approaches with Memory and Evolution for Multi Product Production Distribution System Design Problem, 182(2), 663-682, October 2007.