Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Southern California. Before coming to USC, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine between 2011 and 2013. She received her PhD in Operations Research from North Carolina State University, and B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. Her main research area is decision making under uncertainty with an emphasis on problems related to health care. She is working on both operations management problems including optimal patient scheduling and on individual and population level medical decision making problems specifically related to cancer screening.