Outreach
Blogs
Bol Bilim: With Pınar Yolum, we have been writing about the academic life, i.e, writing papers, preparing talks, getting ready for lectures, and so on. (in Turkish). We also have a YouTube channel.
Veri Deferi: With two of my friends, we share our notes on data science. Here is one YouTube playlist, where we recorded my lectures on introduction to machine learning in Istanbul.
Articles
I occasionally write articles for newspapers and magazines. I did have a steady run in the past:
- Weekly articles mostly about science policy in BirGün Pazar, 2016-2018
- Weekly popular science column in Radikal newspaper, 2012-2014
Hesaplamalı Tarifler II: Matris Ayrışımı, Matematik Dünyası, Temmuz 2017
Hesaplamalı Tarifler I: Newton ve Benzeri Metodlar, Matematik Dünyası, Haziran 2016
Erdoğan: Less European but More Islamist, with K. Çalışkan, 2014
Twitter Millet Meclisinin Sürpriz Siyaseti, with A. T. Cemgil and K. Çalışkan, 2013
Civic Involvement
One of the organizers of the fall school on Mathematics for Machine Learning, 2021.
Lecturer in Machine Learning Summer School, 2021
One of the organizers of the online lectures on Mathematics for Machine Learning, 2021
Organizer of the winter school on Introduction to Machine Learning (in Turkish), 2019
Contributor to the “Purple Certificate Program” of Gender and Women’s Studies Forum at Sabancı University (2013-present)
One of the organizers of Data Science Summer School, 2017
One of the organizers of two schools on Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning, 2016 & 2017
About Me
Ilker Birbil appointed professor of Artificial Intelligence & Optimisation Techniques for Business and Society, University of Amsterdam news, January, 2021
‘The combination of operations research and data science is like a happy marriage’, Amsterdam Business School news, March, 2021
Barış İmzası Sonrası Hollanda’ya Yerleşen Prof. Dr. Birbil ile Çağlayan’da Konuştuk, for BİANET by Evrim Kepenek, 2019
Teacher Talk - Dr. Birbil, for FAECTOR by A. van Woerkom, November, 2018
Awards and Fellowships
Teaching Award, Sabancı University, 2014-2015 Academic Year Graduating Class, (3rd place)
Teaching Award, Sabancı University, 2009-2010 Academic Year Graduating Class, (1st place)
Teaching Award, Sabancı University, 2008-2009 Academic Year Graduating Class, (2nd place)
Incentive Award, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), 2008
Career Award, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), 2007
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), 2002 & 2003
Memberships and University Services
Affiliated researcher of OPTIMAL, Optimization for and with Machine Learning, 2021-present
Member of LNMB, Dutch Network on the Mathematics of Operations Research, 2020-present
Organizer of bi-weekly research seminars, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2018-2021
Board member of Center of Excellence in Gender and Women’s Studies, Sabancı University, 2016-2018
Board member of Center of Excellence in Data Analytics, Sabancı University, 2016-present
Member of faculty committee, Sabancı University, 2015-2018
One of the founders of Data Analytics Program at Sabancı University, (2014)
Member of discipline ommittee, Sabancı University, 2013-2014
Coordinator of IE Program, Sabancı University, 2012-2014
Meber of curriculum committee, Sabancı University, 2005-2011
Member of Information Center committee, Sabancı University, 2005-2011
Member of undergraduate orientation committee, Sabancı University, 2005-2011
Professional Activities
Guest Editor for special issue of Pacific Journal of Optimization, 2016
Associate Editor for Journal of Industrial Management Optimization, 2006-2016
Advisor for Engineering Research Group (industrial engineering section) of The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), 2009-2010
Conferences
Session chair for DSSV-ECDA 2021, Data Science, Statistics & Visualisation (DSSV) and the European Conference on Data Analysis (ECDA) - Online
Session chair for YAEM 2020, 35th National Congress on Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey - Online
Semi-plenary speaker with the talk “Optimization Problems in Machine Learning,” YAEM 2017, 37th National Congress on Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
Session chair for YAEM 2015, 35th National Congress on Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Ankara, Turkey
Program chair, INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Conference 2014, Istanbul, Turkey
Program committee member for YAEM 2014, 34th National Congress on Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Bursa, Turkey
Scientific program committee member, 9th International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications (ICOTA-9) 2013, Taipei, Taiwan
Program committee member for YAEM 2013, 33rd National Congress on Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
Organizing committee member for YAEM 2010, 30th National Congress on Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
Session chair for YAEM 2010, 30th National Congress on Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
Session chair for YAEM 2009, 29th National Congress on Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Ankara, Turkey
Session chair for YAEM 2008, 28th National Congress on Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
Scientific program committee member, International Conference on Applied and Computational Mathematics (ICACM) 2012, Ankara, Turkey
Session chair for 23rd European Conference on Operational Research (2009), Bonn, Germany
Session chair for INFORMS International Hong Kong 2006, China
Session chair for YAEM 2006, 26th National Congress on Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Kocaeli, Turkey
Session chair for International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering (2005), Istanbul, Turkey