Sila Çetinkaya is Professor of OREM and Cecil H. Green Professor of Engineering in the SMU Lyle School of Engineering. She holds courtesy appointments with ITOM in the SMU Cox School of Business and with Internal Medicine in the UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Çetinkaya’s research interests include supply chain and healthcare analytics, stochastic optimal control theory, and applied probability. Her publications appeared in the most reputable outlets of industrial engineering and management science including Operations Research, Management Science, Production and Operations Management, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Transactions, INFORMS Journal of Applied Analytics (previously, Interfaces), Naval Research Logistics, and Transportation Research-B and -E, among many others. Her research program has been funded by multiple grants from National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Education, Texas Engineering Education Coordination Board, Frito-Lay, Pepsi-Co, and Nokia, among other sponsors. She serves as a department editor of IISE Transactions and an associate editor of Naval Research Logistics. Çetinkaya is a member of INFORMS and IISE.