Pinar Keskinocak, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Co-Director, The Research Center for Humanitarian Logistics
Contact Information
Email:
Campus Phone: 404-894-2325
Fax: 404-894-2301
Office Location: Groseclose 0205, Room 408
Personal Homepage
http://www.isye.gatech.edu/people/faculty/Pinar_Keskinocak/
Bio
Pinar Keskinocak is an associate professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the co-director of the Center for Humanitarian Logistics at Georgia Institute of Technology. She received B.S. and M.S. degrees in industrial engineering from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, in 1991 and 1992, and a Ph.D. in operations research from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997. Before joining Georgia Tech, she was with IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.
Dr. Keskinocak’s research focuses on supply chain management, with an emphasis on resource allocation, revenue management, auctions/pricing, due date/lead-time decisions, production planning/scheduling, and logistics/transportation. She has worked on projects in several industries including automotive, semiconductor, paper manufacturing, printing, healthcare, and airlines. She is also actively engaged in research and applications in healthcare and humanitarian logistics.
Dr. Keskinocak is an associate editor of Management Science and IIE Transactions, a senior editor of Production and Operations Management (POMS), and on the editorial board of Journal of Revenue & Pricing Management. She is one of the founding members of the INFORMS-JFIG (Junior Faculty at Informs) group and has served as the president of JFIG. She also has served as the Chair of the INFORMS Doctoral Colloquium in 2003; Chair of the Nicholson Prize in 2005; Vice President-Projects and Vice President-Meetings, INFORMS Forum on Education (INFORM-ED); Treasurer, MSOM Society; and President and Vice President-Meetings, INFORMS Forum for Women in OR/MS (WORMS).
Honors & Awards
- Moving Spirit Award for outstanding volunteers who have been "moving spirits" in their chapters or subdivisions, INFORMS 2005
- CETL (Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning )/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award February
- Women in Engineering Excellence Teaching Faculty Award March 2005
- Operations Research Meritorius Service Award 2002
- Career Award, National Science Foundation 2001
- Best teaching case award for "Managing Operations in the Time-shared Jet Business", INFORMS Nov 2000
- Best workshop paper award for "Decision Support for Managing and Electronic Supply Chain", Workshop on Agents in E-commerce, The First Asia-Pacific Conference of Intelligent Agent Technology Dec 1999
- Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice 1998
- Honorable mention, George Nicholson Student Paper Competition, INFORMS March 1998
- Doctoral Fellowship, William Larimer Mellon Foundation Sept 1992 - Aug 1997
- Undergraduate fellowship, Bilkent University Sept 1987-June 1991
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