Senay Solak : Isenberg School of Management : UMass Amherst

Office

Isenberg 218C

Tel.

413.545.5681

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Education

PhD Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

MS Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute Of Technology

BS Electrical Engineering, United States Naval Academy

Academic Appointments

Professor of Operations Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 9/2021-present

Associate Professor of Operations Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 9/2014-Present

Assistant Professor of Operations Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 9/2008-8/2014

Recent Honors / Awards

Best Publication Award in Environment and Sustainability, INFORMS Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Section, 2017

Outstanding Paper Award in Air Transportation, INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society, 2016

Research Excellence Award, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2015

Outstanding Researcher Award, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2014

Best Paper Award in Computer and Information Systems, Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Annual Conference, 2014

Honorable Mention, INFORMS Section on Public Programs, Services and Needs (SPPSN) Best Paper Award, 2013

Best Paper Award in Operations Research and Management, 3rd International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, 2012

Research Interests

Sustainable Operations

Nonprofit Operations including Healthcare

Aviation Operations

Teaching Interests

Stochastic Models

Supply Chain Management

Business Process Simulation

Selected Publications

P. Arora, W. Wei, S. Solak, “Improving Outcomes in Child Care Subsidy Voucher Programs under Regional Asymmetries,” Production and Operations Management, accepted (2021).

H. Chen, Z. Hu, S. Solak, “Improved Delivery Policies for Future Drone-based Delivery Systems,” European Journal of Operational Research, 294 (3), pp. 1181-1201 (2021).

S. Solak, Y. Zhuo, “Optimal Policies for Information Sharing in Information System Security,” European Journal of Operational Research, 284 (3), pp. 934–950 (2020).

S. Solak, A. Bayram, M. Gumus, Y. Zhuo, “Optimizing Foreclosed Housing Acquisition Portfolios in Societal Response to Foreclosures,” Operations Research, 67 (4), pp. 950–964 (2019).

S. Solak, G. Solveling, J-P. Clarke, E. Johnson, “Stochastic Runway Scheduling,” Transportation Science, 52 (4), pp. 739–1034 (2018).

S. Solak, H. Chen, “Optimal Metering Point Configurations for Optimized Profile Descent Based Arrival Operations at Airports”, Transportation Science, 52 (1), pp. 150–170 (2018).

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