Congratulations! Yueqin Zhong has been selected as an 2022 AMEX+Rutgers Scholar.

Congratulations! Andrew R. Benton successfully defended his dissertation on June 2022 and joined AMEX.

Congratulations! Zhifan Xu has successfully defended his dissertation on April 2022 and joined Apple.

Congratulations! Ayca Altay has been selected as an 2021 AMEX+Rutgers Scholar.

■ M. Baykal-Gürsoy with her co-PIs Profs. Hemmer and Spasojevic received a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Congratulations! Pedro Cesar Lopes Gerum has successfully defended his dissertation and joined Cleveland State University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor AMEX+Rutgers Scholar.

Congratulations! Andrew Reed Benton has been selected to receive one of two Siemens #FutureMakers Fellowships.

Congratulations! Pedro Cesar Lopes Gerum is interning at NASA Ames this Spring.

Congratulations! Abdolmajid Yolmeh has been awarded a three-year National Institute of Justice Fellowship.

Congratulations! Abdolmajid Yolmeh is the Winner of 2017 Informs NJ Chapter Student Contest

Book- "An Introduction to Probability and Statistics" - KendallHunt, 2015

Congratulations! Javier Rubio-Herrero is the Winner of 2015 Informs NJ Chapter Student Contest

■ Rutgers Women Take Flight

■ M. Baykal-Gürsoy in China, 2013.

Welcome

Dr. Melike Baykal-Gürsoy is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She received her BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Bogazici University and her Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. She teaches courses in optimization, stochastic processes, queueing theory, inventory control, process modeling and control, and time series analysis.

Dr. Baykal-Gürsoy's research interests are in the areas of stochastic processes, Markov decision processes (MDPs), stochastic games, queuing and their applications to modeling, optimization and control of stochastic systems, such as transportation, communication and supply chain networks, production/inventory and security systems. As the director of the Laboratory for Stochastic Systems, she is creating models that realistically represent complex phenomena such as traffic flow interrupted by incidents, or adversarial relationship between network attackers and protectors. She is developing stochastic optimization algorithms for adjustment of inventories and product price in supply chains; resource allocation in emergency management; dynamic traffic flow management under incidents, and for stochastic games applied to the infrastructure and network security problems. As the director of Game Research for Infrastructure SecuriTy (GRIST) LAB, Dr. Baykal-Gürsoy is currently focusing on devising tools to help government agencies train their staff to overcome uncertain and incomplete information in order to secure densely populated public spaces.

Dr. Baykal-Gürsoy’s research has been supported through grants from NSF, United Nations, DOD, Rutgers Transportation Coordinating Council/Federal Transit Administration, Rutgers University Center for Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response, and Rutgers Academic Excellence Fund. Her students, J. Rubio-Herrero and A. Yolmeh, were the winner of INFORMS NJ Chapter Student Contests in 2015 and in 2017, respectively. Her former student, W. Xiao, was a finalist in the 2004 Transportation Science and Logistics Section Dissertation Prize Competition. She is a member of INFORMS.

2008-2009 Rutgers Engineering Governing Council Excellence in Teaching Award in I&SE

My Story:

Dr. Baykal-Gürsoy’s Story

Laboratory:

Game Research for Infrastructure SecuriTy (GRIST) LAB

Laboratory for Stochastic Systems

Memberships/Affiliations:

SYCON (Rutgers Center for Systems and Control)
RUTCOR (Rutgers Center for Operations Research)
CAIT (Center for Advanced Infrastucture and Transportation)