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BAHAR YET\u0130\u015e KARA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Founder of H<\/strong>ELP <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bahar Yetis Kara is a Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Bilkent University where she has been a faculty member since 2001. Dr. Kara holds an M.S. and Ph.D. degree from Bilkent University Industrial Engineering Department, and she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at McGill University in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Kara’s current research interests include distribution logistics, humanitarian logistics, hub location and hub network design. Dr. Kara is one of the founders and a member of the executive board of the EURO Working Group on Humanitarian Operations (HOpe). She is also a member of the executive board of Bilkent University and of Turkish OR Society. Dr. Kara editored 4 books and authored\/co-authored more than 90 journal and conference papers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Kara holds “Best Dissertation Award” given by INFORMS-UPS-SOLA (2001), TUBA-GEBIP (National Young Researchers Career Development Grant) reward (2008), IAP Young Researchers Award (2009), and T\u00dcB\u0130TAK Young Scientist Incentive Award (2010). She is currently co-Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research- Part B, and working as an associate editor of IIE Transactions, Operations Research, Data Analytics and Logistics, and Socio Economic Planning and Science.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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