معرفی
Prof. Dr. İmdat Kara is a full-time faculty member at Başkent University's Industrial Engineering Department, College of Engineering, with a career spanning over four decades. He holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering (1976), an MS in Operations Research (1974), and a BSc in Mathematics (1968) from Anadolu University and Middle East Technical University respectively.
His research focuses on Operations Research, Modeling and Optimization, and Multi-Criteria Decision Making. With an H-Index of 11, he has published extensively on vehicle routing problems, team formation in sports, integer programming formulations, and process improvement. His work includes 113 journal articles and 973 books/chapters.
- 2016: Operational Research Association Honor Award
His recent publications (2023-2021) address drilling process optimization, electricity network design, sports team harmony modeling, and advanced formulations for traveling repairman problems. He has supervised 11 PhD and 12 master's theses, including work on time window constraints, heterogeneous fleets, and demand-selective routing. Collaborators include leading researchers like Prof. Dr. Berna Dengiz and Prof. Dr. Yusuf Tansel İç.
