Ilker Baybars

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Professor of Operations Management, Deputy Dean

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Production/operations management, operations research. Current research includes resource utilization in automated/robotic manufacturing systems (scheduling and production planning, bottleneck scheduling/line balancing), design of data/voice transmission networks (facility planning), routing, heuristic algorithms; technology-aided education.

Published Papers: 

• A Heuristic Method for Facility Planning in Telecommunications Networks with Multiple Alternate Routes
  Naval Research Logistics 35.
  (With: R. Edahl)
  
  
• A Two-Process Implicit Enumeration Algorithm for the Simple Assembly Line Balancing Problem
  European Journal of Operational Research 32.
  (With: M. Saltzman)
  
  
• Expected Behavior Analysis of Line Balancing Heuristics
  Journal of Mathematics in Management 1.
  (With: A. Frieze)
  
  
• A Survey of Exact Algorithms for the Simple Assembly Line Balancing Problem
  Management Science 32.
  
  
• An Efficient Heuristic Method for the Simple Assembly Line Balancing Problem
  International Journal of Production Research 24.
  
  

Awards:

• Outstanding Achievement Award, GSIA - 1997
• Emil Limbach Teaching Award for Excellence in the Classroom, SUPA - 1981

Editorial Boards:

• Transactions of Operations Research, 1993-
• (Springer-Verlag, Bilkent Lecture Series), 1988-

Boards:

• Vice President, ABEST21, (Tokyo, Japan), 2005-
• Member, Advisory Board, Graduate School of International Management, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, 2003-
• Member, Board of Trustees, Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey), 1990-

Consulting:

• State of New Jersey
• United Nations
• Numerous universities