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Faculty Profile
Education
B.S., Industrial Engineering, Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey)
M.S., Industrial Engineering, Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey)
M. Phil.. Management Science and Operations Management, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
Ph.D., Management Science and Operations Management, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
Areas Of Expertise
Professor Karaesmen works in the area of operations management, with applications in revenue management, service operations and supply chain management. She is interested in decision making under uncertainty. Her dissertation addresses overbooking decisions with substitutable resources as well as combined inventory allocation and overbooking decisions in the travel and hospitality industries.
Professional Activities
Professor Karaesmen was on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University's Graduate School of Industrial Administration prior to joining University of Maryland, where she taught courses on Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Service Operations and Revenue Management at undergraduate, MBA and PhD levels She has worked on projects for apparel and retail, telecommunications and aviation companies. Her ongoing research on design of dynamic service networks is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Professor Karaesmen has presented her work at several conferences and has been a reviewer for top academic journals. Professor Karaesmen's paper "Overbooking with Substitutable Inventory Classes" was awarded the second prize in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM) Society's Student Paper Competition in 1999. |
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