I am a professor of AI & Optimization Techniques for Business & Society in University of Amsterdam (UvA), where I am a faculty member at the Business Analytics section of the Amsterdam Business School (ABS).

In the past, I had served for three years as a professor of Data Science and Optimization at the Department of Econometrics of Erasmus University (EUR), and before EUR, I had been a professor of optimization at the Industrial Engineering Department of Sabancı University for more than a decade.

My research interests center around optimization methods in artificial intellince and decision making. Lately, I am interested in explainable optimization.

Recent News

• I will present our recent work on counterfactuals in optimization at the PhD students colloquium, Bilkent University, Turkey.

• I am going to talk about explainable optimization at the 2nd EURO PhD School Data Science Meets Combinatorial Optimisation, Eindhoven University, The Netherlands.

• Our paper with M. Kuipers, U. Konus, B. J. J. M. Brundel has just appeared in npj Digital Medicine.

• Our first paper on explainable optimization with J. Kurtz and D. den Hertog is accepted for publication in European Journal of Operational Research.

• I gave the plenary talk on “Artificial Intelligence and Explanation Methods in Optimization,” at the 44th National Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Conference - YAEM 2025.

• We organized the session “New Approaches in Explainable Optimization” at EURO 2025, University of Leeds, UK.