She also serves as the faculty coordinator for the Applied Business Analytics program. She earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in operations management from Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, and her B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey. She has both face-to-face and online teaching experience, and at MET she teaches courses in operations management, supply chain management, and enterprise risk analytics. Her main research interest is in the design and analysis of stochastic simulations with applications in inventory management. Her research has appeared in a variety of publications, including the two leading journals in the field – Operations Research and Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science.