Keynote Speakers
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nahid Jafari, State University of New York-Farmingdale
Generative Artificial Intelligence in Supply Chain and Operations Management
Dr. Nahid Jafari is an Associate Professor of Supply Chain and Artificial Intelligence Management at the School of Business, SUNY-Farmingdale, New York. She earned her Ph.D. in Statistics and Operations Research from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Her research and publications primarily focus on developing innovative mathematical programming models to support decision-making in network design and resource allocation problems. Additionally, she is conducting research in demand and sales forecasting using statistical and deep learning models.
Keynote Speakers
Emre Türkmen, KoçDigital
Digitalization and Sustainability: Logistics Strategies in Smart Cities
Emre Türkmen, a distinguished professional in the field of supply chain management, has been serving as a product manager at KoçDigital since 2020. As of February 2024, his responsibilities have expanded to include consultancy, training, and mentorship. His expertise spans across various domains including digital transformation, data analysis, artificial intelligence, strategic management, human resources management, agile organizations/management, and supply chain management.
Mr. Türkmen’s academic credentials are equally impressive, holding both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, along with a master’s degree from the Tech MBA program at Koç University. He is currently engaged in his doctoral thesis work at the Istanbul Technical University’s Department of Industrial Engineering.
In addition to his professional and academic pursuits, Mr. Türkmen contributes his expertise as a member of the advisory board for both the Istanbul Technical University’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Istinye University. His multifaceted roles and contributions truly exemplify his commitment to his field.
Keynote Speakers
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Barış Yıldız, Koç University
Mobility of Goods as a Public Need
Dr. Yıldız is a full-time faculty in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Koç University. He is a network design and optimization specialist with more than ten years of experience in mathematical programming, operations research, algorithm design, and transportation systems. His research focuses on developing innovative methodologies to solve large-scale optimization problems in various application areas ranging from infrastructure planning to city logistics to online fleet management to service network design to dynamic vehicle routing to location analysis.
Keynote Speakers
Asst. Prof. Dr. Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee, Yuan Ze University, İstinye University
Multimodal Last-Mile e-mobility
Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee obtained a BSc. (2012) and MSc. (2014) in Industrial Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology in Isfahan, Iran. Then, he received a Ph.D. degree (2019) in Industrial Engineering from Mazandaran University of Science and Technology in Babol, Iran. Dr. Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Istinye University in Istanbul, Turkey. Meanwhile, he worked as a Quality Assurance expert in some automotive industries in Iran and went through different relevant training courses like ISO 9001: 2015 and IATF 16949-2016. He has published more than 120 papers in high-quality journals, including IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Expert Systems with Applications, Waste Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Annals of Operations Research, etc. He has been serving as a chair, organizing, committee member as well as a keynote speaker in several prestigious international conferences. Moreover, he is a reviewer in many reputed WoS journals and has been recognized as a Top Peer Reviewer in 2 of the Essential Science Indicators research areas by Clarivate WoS. Dr. Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Fuzzy Systems (IEEE), Editorial Board Member of Facta Universitatis, Series: Mechanical Engineering (University of Niš), Academic Editor of PLOS One (PLOS), PeerJ Computer Science (PeerJ), Editorial Board Member of Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing (Tech Science Press), Associate Editor of the Journal of Dynamics and Games (AIMS), and Editorial Advisory Board member of Management Decision (Emerald). He has been also serving on the guest editorial board in several journals such as Annals of Operations Research (Springer) and Environmental Science and Pollution Research (Springer). Dr. Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee has been featured among the "World’s Top 2% Researchers/Scientists in 2021 & 2022" list identified by Elsevier BV, Stanford University.