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Bahar Biller

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Assistant Professor of Operations Management and Anna Loomis McCandless Professorship

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:
  • Discrete-event stochastic simulation with applications to inventory management, global supply chain design, finance and queueing theory.
Published Papers: 
  • Copula-Based Multivariate Input Models for Stochastic Simulation
    Operations Research, 2009.

  • Accounting for Multivariate Input Uncertainty in Large-Scale Stochastic Simulations
    Proceedings of the 2009 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Conference, 2009.
    (With: Canan Gunes)

  • Setting Inventory Targets in the Presence of Finite Historical Demand Data
    Proceedings of the 2009 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Conference, 2009.
    (With: Sridhar Tayur)

  • Setting Inventory Targets in a Multi-Product, Joint-Service Level Model with Correlated Stochastic Demands
    Proceedings of the 2008 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Conference, 2008.
    (With: Sridhar Tayur)

  • Evaluation of the ARTAFIT Method for Fitting Time-Series Input Processes for Simulation
    Informs Journal of Computing 20, 2008; 485-498.
    (With: B. Nelson)

  • Fitting Time-Series Input Processes for Simulation
    Operations Research 53, 2005; 549-559.
    (With: B. Nelson)
    For Further Information

  • Modeling and Generating Multivariate Time Series with Arbitrary Marginals Using a Vector Autoregressive Technique
    ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation 13, 2003; 1-27.
    (With: B. Nelson)
    For Further Information

Working Papers: 
  • A Multivariate Distribution Based On Simple Translations
    July, 2009.

  • Comparison of the Fitting Methods for the Johnson Translation System
    June, 2009.
    (With: Canan Gunes)

  • Multivariate Inputs with Time-Varying Distributional Properties
    May, 2009.
    (With: Jim Foster)

Awards:
  • Anna Loomis McCandles Professorship - 2007-
  • Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers - 2007
  • National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program Award - 2006-2010
  • Faculty Giving Chair, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - 2006-2007
  • Carnegie Bosch Institute Faculty Development Grant - 2003-2004
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