She got her Ph.D. in Operations Research from Carnegie Mellon University, following her M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey. Prior to joining Koç University, she held a faculty position at the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. She has published in the areas of network design, production scheduling, supply chain management, logistics and data mining in addition to disaster mitigation and preparedness. Her current research interests are in network optimization with applications in logistics and disaster management.