Assistant Professor
Operations Management
Education
Ph.D., Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, 2009
M.Sc., Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Çukurova University, 2000
B.Sc., Industrial Engineering, Bilkent University, 1998
Contact Information
Troutman Hall 218
p 614-236-6530
f 614-236-6540
aulku@capital.edu
Ali completed his Ph.D. degree in Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo where he also worked as research associate for WATMIMS (Waterloo Management of Integrated Manufacturing Systems).
Dr. Ülkü enjoys researching the “science of better” and believes in the “teaching of better.” Broadly, his research is on Logistics Supply Chain Management. Specifically, he explores the logistics management, dynamic pricing for service systems, interfaces between marketing and operations, and operations research tools applied to societal and business problems. He currently has a publication forthcoming in American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences, among others which also have been published in numerous refereed conference proceedings. Ali holds CUT (Certificate in University Teaching) and currently is teaching Operations Management and Fundamentals of Management Science courses at the MBA and undergraduate level.
Prior to joining the School of Management and Leadership at Capital University, he taught Production and Service Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Statistics, Stochastic Modeling and Optimization, Mathematical Programming, and Operations Research courses at various universities including the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Canada), the Rotman School of Management - University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada), the School of Business and Economics - Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Canada), at the School of Business Management - Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada), and at the Department of Industrial Engineering - Çukurova University. Besides, he has quite an experience in industry. He consulted on productivity and lean manufacturing for the biggest multinational brewery company in Turkey for two years, and led a managerial position thereof.
Ali was honored with the Exceptional Teaching Award, for his quality of teaching at the University of Waterloo. He has held various fellowship, scholarship and merit awards through his education life: NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) doctoral scholarship (2006-2009), Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined), University of Toronto's open doctoral fellowship (2001-2005), Bilkent University's full bursary (1993-1998), to name a few.
He served as the president of Canadian Operations Research Society (CORS) – Waterloo chapter, through 2006-2008 and is a member of the Institute for the Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), Institute for Industrial Engineers (IIE), Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), and APICS-The Association for Operations Management. Dr. Ülkü has been ad hoc refereeing for some scholar journals in his research discipline.