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Okan Arslan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at HEC Montréal. He holds memberships in the Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT) and the Group for Research in Decision Analysis (GERAD). His expertise lies in Operations Research, Combinatorial Optimization, and Large-Scale Network Design. Current research focuses on smart last-mile delivery systems.
Education: Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University.
Research Interests: Operations Research, Combinatorial Optimization, Network Design, Logistics, Transportation Systems, and Last-Mile Delivery Optimization. Recent work explores facility location under uncertainty, selective routing frameworks, and crowd-based logistics solutions.
Awards include the 2024 Transportation Science Meritorious Service Award (2025), Amazon Last Mile Routing Challenge Third Place (2021), and the HEC Montréal New Researcher Prize (2021). He has also received an Honorable Mention from INFORMS (2019) for work on evasive flow capturing.
Teaching includes courses such as Fundamentals of Optimization and Distribution Management. He has supervised 4 master’s theses (e.g., Benders decomposition for facility location, routing optimization) and 2 project supervisions (e.g., workload forecasting at Hydro-Québec).
His lab affiliations and collaborations emphasize applied research in transportation and logistics, with a focus on practical industrial applications and network resilience.
