He received his B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU) and Ph.D. degree in operations research from Cornell University. He is currently serving as the Associate Dean of Sabancı School of Management. His main research interests are in production and project scheduling (recently rescheduling and robustness issues in scheduling) and applied discrete optimization. He has published in European Journal of Operations Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, International Journal of Production Research and Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming. He has several teaching awards including Graduating Class Awards at Sabancı University.