Özyeğin University Industrial Engineering Team Selected As a Finalist for INFORMS Operations Research & Analytics Student Team Competition 2017

Eight student teams have been selected as finalists in the inaugural INFORMS Operations Research & Analytics Student Team Competition.

Our student team led by Associate Prof. Erhun Kundakcıoğlu, our Engineering faculty member, has been selected as one of the eight finalists and invited to present in the final judging round at the INFORMS Business Analytics Conference in Las Vegas, NV, on April 2-4.

The student team competition is the largest competition organized for students by INFORMS, one of the leading organizations in Industrial Engineering and Business Management. More than 100 schools joined the competition, including the world’s leading universities. The eight finalists are:

• Drexel University, US
• National Singapore University, Singapore
• Ozyegin University, Turkey
• Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (team 1)
• Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (team 2)
• University of Cincinnati, US
• University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, US
• University of Warwick, UK

Although the competition was also open for graduate students, the Özyeğin University team is made up of only undergraduate students.

Onurcan Aktürk – Industrial Engineering, Senior Student, Minor in Computer Science

Anıl Cem Arslan – Industrial Engineering, Senior Student, Minor in Computer Science

Mert İşlek – Industrial Engineering, Senior Student

Baturay Ofluoğlu – Industrial Engineering, Senior Student,Minor in Computer Science

Bilge Sezgin – Industrial Engineering, Senior Student

INFORMS, the leading international association for professionals in operations research and analytics, introduced this new competition to highlight young talent and provide O.R. and analytics students the opportunity to solve the kinds of real-world workplace challenges they will face during their careers. The winners will be announced during the INFORMS Analytics Conference on April 4.

About the INFORMS Operations Research & Analytics Student Team Competition:

The student teams were given the same business problem, data sets, and access to software to solve a challenging problem using an O.R. and analytics approach. A panel of industry and academic experts judged written submissions to select the finalists, based on each teams’ use of the full analytics process, from framing the problem to methodology selection, data use, model building, and quantitative analysis.

For more information about the INFORMS Operations Research & Analytics Student Team Competition: http://connect.informs.org/oratc/home

About INFORMS:

With more than 12,500 members from around the globe, INFORMS is the leading international association for professionals in operations research and analytics.

INFORMS promotes best practices and advances in operations research, management science, and analytics to improve operational processes, decision-making, and outcomes through an array of highly-cited publications, conferences, competitions, networking communities, and professional development services. For more, please visit www.informs.org or @informs.