He also serves as the Associate Director of the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences at METU. He received his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Warwick Business School in 2008-2009. He spent September 2006-February 2007 in University of California Berkeley as a visiting researcher. He has served as the executive committee member of the Turkish Operational Research Society since 2011.