Dr. Durdu Hakan Utku, received his BS degree from the Business Administration Department at Turkish Military Academy in 1992 and completed System Engineering program in 1998. He received his MSc in Industrial Engineering at Bilkent University in 2000 and Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering at Gazi University in 2016. He worked as an instructor in industrial engineering at Turkish Military Academy between 2000-2003 and as a project manager between 2006-2014 at the Turkish Land Forces HQ. Since April 2017, Dr. Utku, has been working for Industrial Engineering Department of University of Turkish Aeronautical Association as an Assistant Professor.
Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, August 2013 o Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA o Dissertation Title: Investigating the Relationship Between Infrastructure Development and Adverse Events in an Active War Theater Using Soft Computing Techniques o Advisor: Waldemar Karwowski (http://www.iems.ucf.edu/people/waldemar-karwowski )
M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering, August 2008 o Department of Industrial Engineering, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey o Thesis Title: Fuzzy Logic Approach to Determine the Factors Affecting Hand Dexterity o Advisors: Behice Durgun and Oya Çetik
B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering, 2006 o Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Gaziantep, Gaziantep, Turkey
Dr. Dursun Balkan received his BSc in Industrial Engineering Department at Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey in 2006. He received his MSc in 2009 and PhD degree in 2016 in Industrial Engineering Department at Gazi University with TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) scholarship. He also received his second degree in Public Administration from Anadolu University at Faculty of Economics in 2015. He started his professional career at the National Productivity Center in 2007 as Productivity Specialist. In 2011, he worked as an Industry and Technology Specialist at the General Directorate for Productivity of the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology. In 2017, he became an Institution Representative of the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology at State Information Coordination Center of Presidency of the Republic of Turkey. He has given various cources, consultancy services and researches in various level at public and private enterprises. He has also participated in many meetings, trainings and workshops related to his expertise field at international organizations.
Dr. Ahmet AKTAŞ graduated from Gazi University Industrial Engineering Department in 2011. He also got his Master's and PhD degrees in 2014 and 2021 at Gazi University Institute of Science and Technology Department of Industrial Engineering, respectively. He was a visiting researcher at Coimbra University in Portugal during a period of his doctoral education. His research mainly focuses on the solution of decision problems faced in production, supply and service systems by using mathematical modeling, multi-objective optimization and multi-criteria decision making approaches. He has several published national and international articles, conference proceedings and book chapters.
Dr. Başak Gever graduated from Karadeniz Technical University with honors degree in Statistics and Computer Science in 2008. During her undergraduate studies, she took courses from the Department of Informatics at Eszterhazy Karoly University (Hungary) as an Erasmus scholar. Afterwards, she completed MSc and PhD programs in the Department of Industrial Engineering at TOBB University of Economics and Technology with full scholarship, respectively in 2011 and 2017. During her PhD, she studied at the University of Edinburgh in the School of Mathematics as a visiting researcher. After working at Defence Technologies Engineering Inc. as an Expert of Artificial Intelligence Engineer, she started to work as an Assist. Prof. Dr. in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association in 2019.
Dr. Cemal BALIKÇI joined the Air Force Command in 1979. He graduated from Gazi University, Faculty of Science,Department of Statistics in 1987. He completed domestic and international education; He carried out the F-16 modernization activities of the 4’th Main Jet Base Command Akıncı / Ankara, 6’th Main Jet Base Command / Bandırma and 5’th Main Jet Base Command / Merzifon Air Base and served in various command levels of the Air Force Aircraft Maintenance field.
In 2005, he completed his master's degree in the field of Industrial Engineering at Selcuk University Institute of Science and worked as NATO Plan Branch Manager in Baghdad / IRAQ.
In 2009, he completed his master's degree in International Relations at Ufuk University, Institute of Social Sciences.
In the field of Statistics in Selçuk University, Graduate School of Sciences, which he started in 2010, he completed it in 2015.
He was promoted to General on 30 August 2016. He served for forty (40) years in the fields of logistics management, Aircraft Maintenance management, Risk management, Project management and planning, which he carried out at the Air Force Command. He retired on 30 August 2019. (E) Brigadier General Cemal BALIKÇI is married and has three children. He has good command of English.
Short Biography
Dr. Kasımoğlu received his graduate degree in system engineering at Turkish Military Academy in 1997. He got his M.S. degree with a scholarship in Operations Research at Naval Post Graduate School/California/USA in 2002. In 2015, he received his PhD degree in Operations Research from Defense Sciences Institute, Turkish Military Academy, with his thesis supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). Involving in various projects and analysis in Turkish Military, Dr. Kasımoğlu took role in NATO Joint Force Command/Italy as manning analyst between 2013 and 2016. Having been in roles as an instructor at Turkish Military Academy, a visiting academic at Cyprus International University and Asst. Prof. at Dogus University, Dr. Kasımoğlu has been working as Asst. Prof. in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association since 2020.
Dr. Selami BAYEĞ was graduated from Abant İzzet Baysal University with high honour degree in Mathematics in 2008.
In 2009, he was received an acceptance from the EURHEO (European Masters of Engineering Rheology) integrated master program by being qualified to receive the Erasmus Mundus scholarship. After successfully completing the compulsory field courses in the Department of Material Science at Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) in 2009, in the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering at University of Minho (Portugal) in 2010 and in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 2011, he received his master's degrees from each of the departments.
In 2012, he was accepted to the doctorate program in the Department of Mathematics at TOBB University of Economics and Technology. He received his doctorate in Applied Mathematics in 2018. From 2013 to 2018, he was assigned for recitations of different courses in the Department of Mathematics at TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
From 2018 to 2020, he worked as a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at TOBB University of Economics and Technology. Since 2020, he has been working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the Turkish Aeronautical University.
