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)
