Engineering Assistant

SERDAR YILDIZ

Looking for new opportunities

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Specialties

Mathematical programming, Integer Programming, Nonlinear Programming, Financial Optimization, Supply

Chain Management, Coin-OR, Open source optimization software development

Experience

Operations Research Developer at Sabre Holdings

January 2013 - January 2014 (1 year 1 month)

Graduate student, Teaching Assistant at Lehigh University

September 2009 - January 2013 (3 years 5 months)

Develop and implement heuristics for open source Integer Programming Solvers (Coin-Or, Symphony).

Teaching Assistant for Optimization Models and Applications and Lab Instructor for Simulation in Arena.

Intern at Argonne National Laboratory

May 2012 - August 2012 (4 months)

Graduate Student, Researcher at Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey

August 2008 - May 2009 (10 months)

Research in track of energy flow in a manufacturing plant.

Research in machining of titanium alloys.

Teaching Assistant at Bilkent University

September 2006 - May 2008 (1 year 9 months)

Research in robotic cell scheduling.

Publications

An analysis of cyclic scheduling problems in robot centered cells

Computers & Operations Research 2012

Authors: SERDAR YILDIZ, OYA EKIN KARASAN, MEHMET SELIM AKTURK

S. Yildiz, O.E. Karasan and M. S. Akturk, An analysis of cyclic scheduling problems in robot centered cells,

Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 1290-1299, 2012.

Bicriteria robotic cell scheduling with controllable processing times

International Journal of Production Research 2011

Authors: SERDAR YILDIZ, MEHMET SELIM AKTURK, OYA EKIN KARASAN

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S. Yildiz, M. S. Akturk and O.E. Karasan, `Bicriteria robotic cell scheduling with controllable processing

times", International Journal of Production Research, 49 (2), 569-583, 2011

A Framework for Establishing Energy Efficiency and Environmental Footprint Metrics for Sustainable

Manufacturing of Products

ASME 2009 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference 2009

Authors: SERDAR YILDIZ

T.Ozel, S. Yildiz, “A Framework for Establishing Energy Efficiency and Environmental Footprint Metrics for

Sustainable Manufacturing of Products”, Paper no: MSEC2009-84365 pp. 179-186, doi:10.1115/MSEC2009-

84365

ASME 2009 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, Volume 1, Environmentally

Sustainable Manufacturing Processes and Systems, October 4-7, 2009, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

Influence of Material Models on Serrated Chip Formation in Simulation of Machining Ti-6Al-4V

Titanium Alloy

Proceedings of 12th CIRP Conference on Modeling of Machining Operations

Authors: SERDAR YILDIZ

T. Ozel, S. Yildiz, J. Ciurana, “Influence of Material Models on Serrated Chip Formation in Simulation of

Machining Ti-6Al-4V Titanium Alloy”, Proceedings of 12th CIRP Conference on Modeling of Machining

Operations (2009), 123-130.

Languages

English (Full professional proficiency)

Turkish (Native or bilingual proficiency)

German (Elementary proficiency)

Spanish (Elementary proficiency)

Skills & Expertise

C

C++

Python

Java

Bash

GNU Make

GNU tools

Linux

Open Source

Microsoft Office

Emacs

Eclipse

SAS

SPSS

Matlab

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LaTeX

Education

Lehigh University

Ms. Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2009 - 2013

Grade: 3.71

Activities and Societies: Informs Student Chapter (Budget)

Turkish Student Club (Vice President)

Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey

NSF research, Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2008 - 2009

Grade: 3.65

Bilkent Üniversitesi

MSc, Industrial Engineering, 2006 - 2008

Grade: 3.26

Bilkent University

BS, Industrial Engineering, 2001 - 2006

Grade: 3.25

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