Brief Bio

Dr. Ibrahim Kucukkoc is an Associate Professor in the Industrial Engineering department at Balikesir University (Turkey) where he has been a faculty member since December 2009. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Exeter (UK) in 2015 upon completing his thesis on modelling and optimisation of complex assembly lines (funded by a 4-year scholarship from Turkish Council of Higher Education).
His research interests lie in the area of modelling and optimisation of modern manufacturing systems (assembly line balancing in particular), production planning of additive manufacturing machines and application of modern algorithms on sophisticated combinatorial optimisation problems. He has collaborated actively with researchers in several other disciplines, such as computer science and mechanical engineering. His publications appeared in various esteemed journals including European Journal of Operational Research, Computers & Operations Research, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, Computers & Industrial Engineering and Production Planning & Control. His research has been cited more than 1400 times (based on Scopus metrics) by national and international scholars. Read More

News & Activities

Co-organising the "Operational Research" Session at ICAME'24

The 3rd International Conference on Applied Mathematics in Engineering (ICAME'24)

Date & Venue: 26-28 June 2024 | Ayvalik, Balikesir
Website: https://icame.balikesir.edu.tr/index.html
Session Details: https://icame.balikesir.edu.tr/specialsessions.html

Chairing the Session "Artificial Intelligence in Reliability and Safety" at ICRMS2022

The 13th International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability, and Safety (ICRMS)

Date & Venue: 21-24 August 2022 | Hong-Kong, China
Website: https://icrms2022.org/home.html
Programme Committee: https://icrms2022.org/public.asp?page=presenter_schedule.asp

Attending Conference - 6th AIROYoung Workshop

Operational Research and Data Science in Public Services

Venue & Dates: Roma Tre University, Italy - February 23-25, 2022
Website: https://ayw2022.uniroma3.it/
Programme: https://ayw2022.uniroma3.it/programme/programme/

Special Issue in Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal (Springer)

Call for Papers on Human-Robot Collaboration in the Next Generation Manufacturing and Logistics System

Guest Editors: S. G. Ponnambalam, Qing (Cindy) Chang, Ray Y. Zhong, Ibrahim Kucukkoc, Mukund Janardhanan Submission Deadline: April 30, 2022
Please submit your paper online via www.editorialmanager.com/flex and select "SI: Human-Robot Collaboration" during the questionnaire. The target print publication date is Fall 2022.
Website: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10696-023-09506-w