Ilker Baybars
Professor of Operations Management and Manufacturing
Deputy Dean

B.S., Middle East Technical University, 1969;
M.S., Carnegie Mellon University, 1972;
Ph.D., 1979

e-mail: baybars@andrew.cmu.edu

Teaching and Research Interests:

Production/operations management, operations research. Current research includes resource utilization in automated/robotic manufacturing systems (scheduling and production planning, bottleneck scheduling/line balancing), design of data/voice transmission networks (facility planning), routing, heuristic algorithms; technology-aided education.

Major Publications/Papers:

"A Heuristic Method for Facility Planning in Telecommunications Networks with Multiple Alternate Routes," with R. H. Edahl, Naval Research Logistics, 35, 1988;

"A Two-Process Implicit Enumeration Algorithm for the Simple Assembly Line Balancing Problem," with M. J. Saltzman, European Journal of Operational Research,32, 1987;

"An Efficient Heuristic Method for the Simple Assembly Line Balancing Problem," International Journal of Production Research, 24, 1986; "A Survey of Exact Algorithms for the Simple Assembly Line Balancing Problem," Management Science, 32, 1986;

"Expected Behavior Analysis of Line Balancing Heuristics," with A. Frieze, IMA Journal of Mathematics in Management, 1, 1986

Awards/Honors:

• Emil Limbach Teaching Award for Excellence in the Classroom, SUPA, 1981
• Outstanding Achievement Award, GSIA, 1997

Boards:

• Member, Board of Trustees, Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey), 1990-
• Member, Board of Directors, MBA Enterprise Corps (Chapel Hill, NC), 1991-

Editorial Boards:

• Springer-Verlag, Bilkent Lecture Series, 1988-
• Transactions of Operations Research, 1993-

Consulting:

• State of New Jersey
• United Nations
• Numerous universities and other organizations in Turkey