İhsan Sabuncuoğlu (born August 16, 1958) is a Turkish academic in

Industrial Engineering Industrial engineering (IE) is concerned with the design, improvement and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment and energy. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical, physical, an ...

. He is the founding and former rector of

Abdullah Gül University Abdullah Gül University (AGU) is a public university located in Kayseri, Turkey. Inaugurated in 2010, AGU offers 12 undergraduate and 11 graduate programs through its five schools. The university is one of only four public universities in Turkey, ...

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, Turkey and now he is the rector of TED University. Relying on the database of

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(WOS/all databases), he is appraised as one of three highly successful Turkish industrial engineers regarding to his ''h'' index point of scientific productivity.

Biography

He received his B.S. and M.S degrees from

Middle East Technical University Middle East Technical University (commonly referred to as METU; in Turkish language, Turkish, ''Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'', ODTÜ) is a prestigious public university, public Institute of technology, technical university located in Ankara, ...

, in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree from

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in 1989. İhsan Sabuncuoğlu worked for

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and the

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in the United States during his PhD studies. He joined

Bilkent University Bilkent University () is a private non-profit research university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by İhsan Doğramacı, the first president of the Council of Higher Education and the head of the prominent Doğramacı family, with th ...

in 1990. Between 1990 and 2013, he was a full-time faculty member at Bilkent University Industrial Engineering Department, where he became the chairman in 2006. He was the chairman of the first engineering department to be accredited by

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in Turkey. In the meantime, he held visiting positions at

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in the United States, and at Institut Français de Mecanique Avancee (IFMA) in France. As a person who highly gives importance to university-industry collaboration, he established university-industry collaboration center (''USIM'') in 2010. In addition to his appearance in the assessment committees of ''TÜBİTAK'' and ''KOSGEB'', he gave consultancy services to major manufacturing and service companies for productivity improvement. He is on the Editorial Board of International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management and Journal of Operations Management. He also acted as the conference chair in several industrial engineering conferences and workshops that were held in Turkey and worldwide. Dr. Sabuncuoğlu is a member of the

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(IIE) and

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. He is married to Semra Sabuncuoğlu and has two children, Kerem and Arda.

Research

Prof. Sabuncuoğlu teaches and conducts research in the areas of simulation, scheduling and applications of optimization models to health care problems such as cancer screening and targeted drug delivery. His research on cancer related health-care problems are funded by ''TÜBİTAK'' and

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. Dr.Sabuncuoğlu also has significant industrial experience in aerospace, automative, FMCG and military based defence systems. His industrial projects are sponsored by over hundred of both national and international companies. He is also the founding director of the Bilkent University Industry and the University Collaboration Center (''USIM'') and the chair of Advanced Machinery and Manufacturing Group (''MAKITEG'') at ''TÜBİTAK''. He has over 100 publications and conference proceedings, which are all published in leading journals. His publications appeared in IIE Transactions, Decision Sciences, International Journal of Production Research, Simulation, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Computers and Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Operational Research Society, Computers and Industrial Engineering, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, OMEGA-International Journal of Management Sciences, and Production Planning and Control. He also edited two books, ''Global Logistics Management'' and ''Industrial Engineering Non Traditional Applications in International Settings''. Besides to his contributions to many domestic and worldwide projects related to education and industry, he is also a member of the Council of Industrial Engineering Academic Department Heads (CIEADH).

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