He holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Florida and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara Turkey. He has worked as a post-doctorate research fellow at the Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute at the University of Memphis. His research interests include applied operations research/optimization and game theory in the fields of Supply Chain Management, Logistics and Distribution, Transportation, and Systems Engineering. He has conducted research on various supply chain and logistics problems, environmental inventory control, railroad, and work-zone safety, and military system of systems architecting.