Tepper School Faculty Directory

Carnegie Mellon: Tepper School of Business

Bahar Biller

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Associate Professor of Operations Management

Email:
billerb@andrew.cmu.edu

Education:

Bilkent University - B.S. - 1996
Northwestern University - M.S. - 1998
Northwestern University - Ph.D. - 2002

Areas of Expertise:

Manufacturing & Operations Management

Teaching and Research Interests:

Design and analysis of stochastic system simulations with applications in Operations Management.

Published Papers:

Stochastic Input Model Selection
Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, Forthcoming.
(with: Alp Akcay)
Copula-Based Multivariate Input Modeling
Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science 17(2), 2012; 69-84.
(with: Canan Corlu)
Improved Inventory Targets in the Presence of Limited Historical Demand Data
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 13(3), 2011; 297-309.
(with: Alp Akcay, Sridhar Tayur)
Accounting for Parameter Uncertainty in Large-Scale Stochastic Simulations with Correlated Inputs
Operations Research 59(3), 2011; 661-673.
(with: Canan Corlu)
Multivariate Input Modeling
Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, 2010.
Copula-Based Multivariate Input Models for Stochastic Simulation
Operations Research 57(4), 2009; 878-892.
Evaluation of the ARTAFIT Method for Fitting Time-Series Input Processes for Simulation
Informs Journal of Computing 20(3), 2008; 485-498.
(with: Barry Nelson)
Multivariate Input Processes
Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science: Simulation, 2006; 123-153.
(with: Soumdayip Ghosh)
Fitting Time-Series Input Processes for Simulation
Operations Research 53(3), 2005; 549-559.
(with: Barry Nelson)
Modeling and Generating Multivariate Time-Series Input Processes Using a Vector Autoregressive Technique
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation 13(3), 2003; 1-27.
(with: Barry Nelson)
On the Distribution of Throughput of Transfer Lines
Journal of the Operations Research Society 51(10), 2000; 1170-1178.

Working Papers:

An Inventory Theoretic Approach to Rental Systems
February, 2013.
(with: Vince Slaugh, Sridhar Tayur)
Designing Subset-Selection Procedures for Simulation under Input Parameter Uncertainty
February, 2013.
(with: Canan Corlu)
Data-Driven Newsvendor: Probabilistic Error Bounds When Demand is Temporally Dependent
February, 2013.
(with: Alp Akcay, Sridhar Tayur)
Maximizing Demand Fulfillment Probability Under Parameter Uncertainty
February, 2013.
(with: Canan Corlu, Sridhar Tayur)
Equal-Fractile Heuristic: New Results and Insights
August, 2012.
(with: Sridhar Tayur, Alp Akcay)
Chance Constrained Optimization with Multivariate Johnson Translation System: A Copula Approach
July, 2012.
(with: Alp Akcay, Sridhar Tayur)
How Much Data Are Needed: Estimation of Service Levels in Inventory Simulations
March, 2012.
(with: Canan Corlu)
Managing Inventory with Limited History of Intermittent Demand
January, 2012.
(with: Alp Akcay, Sridhar Tayur)
Capturing Time-Varying Joint Distributional Properties of Financial Time Series in Capital Market Simulations
September, 2011.
(with: Jim Foster, Alp Akcay)
A Simulation-Based Approach to Capturing Autocorrelated Demand Parameter Uncertainty in Inventory Management
September, 2011.
(with: Alp Akcay, Sridhar Tayur)
β-Guaranteed Joint Service Levels
September, 2011.
(with: Sridhar Tayur)
Least-Squares and Bayesian Inferences for Johnson’s SL and SB Distributions
June, 2010.
(with: Canan Corlu)

Awards:

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, National Science Foundation - 2007
Anna Loomis McCandles Professorship - 2007-2010
Faculty Early Career Development Program Award, National Science Foundation - 2006-2010
Faculty Giving Chair, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - 2006
Faculty Development Grant, Carnegie Bosch Institute - 2003