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Associate Professor Melih Ozlen serves as Deputy Head of Department (Academic Operations) in the Department of Mathematical and Geospatial Science within RMIT University's School of Science at the City Campus in Australia. With a strong academic background in operations research and optimization, he has established himself as a leading researcher in combinatorial optimization, mathematical programming, and multi-objective optimization.
His research interests focus on practical applications of optimization techniques across various domains including healthcare logistics, wildfire management, network optimization, and power systems. Ozlen's work bridges theoretical optimization methods with real-world challenges, particularly in resource allocation problems under uncertainty.
The publication record reveals a consistent research trajectory with emphasis on decomposition methods, evolutionary algorithms, and matheuristic approaches for solving complex optimization problems. His recent work shows increasing focus on healthcare applications while maintaining strong contributions to wildfire management and network optimization problems.
As an active reviewer for prestigious journals including European Journal of Operational Research and Computers and Operations Research, as well as the Australian Research Council, Ozlen contributes significantly to the academic community. His professional memberships span key organizations including INFORMS, Australian Mathematical Society, and Australian Society for Operations Research.
Ozlen actively supervises graduate students with current projects focusing on home care optimization, multi-objective mixed integer programming, and vehicle routing problems with applications to wildfire management. His teaching interests align with his research expertise in operations research, combinatorial optimization, mathematical programming, and multi-objective optimization.
