Okan Arslan
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Associate Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal
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Biography
Okan Arslan is an Associate Professor of Operations Research at HEC Montréal and a member of GERAD and CIRRELT. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University. His research interests focus on the design and management of large-scale networks, transportation, last-mile delivery, and emerging technologies. Okan has received prestigious awards for his research and teaching, including the Young Researcher Award (Prix Nouveau Chercheur) and the Teaching Excellence Award (Prix pour l’excellence en pédagogie) from HEC Montréal, and an Honorable Mention in the INFORMS Transportation Science & Logistics Section Best Paper Award. Okan's team also ranked among the top three in a global last-mile routing challenge organized by Amazon and MIT.
His work has been published in leading journals in the fields of operations research and transportation, including Operations Research, Transportation Science, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, among others. He currently serves as an Editorial Board Editor for Transportation Research Part B: Methodological and is a member of the Early Career Editorial Advisory Board for Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. He is also involved in collaborative projects with large-scale companies, focusing on optimizing logistics and transportation networks and improving last-mile delivery systems.
As a member of GERAD, Okan enjoys being part of a dynamic research community that encourages collaboration and exploration in decision sciences.
Education
Research Axes
Research Applications
Publications
News
During the 2024 CORS Conference, held in Edmonton from June 9 to 11, Laura Kolcheva (PhD Student at Polytechnique Montréal) won the Gilbert Laporte Student Paper Award for "Online Stochastic Optimization for Real-Time Transfer Synchronization in Public Transportation Networks".
Xin Wang (PhD Student at HEC Montréal) received an honorable mention for "Crowdkeeping in Last-Mile Delivery".
Congratulations to Xin Wang who won the 2023 Esdras-Minville Award from HEC Montréal for the article co-authored with professors Erick Delage and Okan Arslan entitled "Crowdkeeping in Last-Mile Delivery". It was published in the journal Transportation Science.
Congratulations to Okan Arslan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at HEC Montréal. He won the HEC Montréal Award for Teaching Excellence for an assistant professor.
Events
Sibel Alumur Alev – University of Waterloo
Okan Arslan – Assistant Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal
Prizes and awards
Meritorious Service Award
Award for Teaching Excellence for an assistant professor
Best Application Paper Award
"A vehicle routing problem with time windows and workload balancing for COVID-19 testers: A case study", S Shahnejat-Bushehri, A Kermani, O Arslan, JF Cordeau, R JansNew Researcher Award
Third place in the Amazon Last Mile Routing Research Challenge
Editorial Boards & Comittees
Editorial Board Editor, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2021-...
Editorial Advisory Board Member of Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2023-...
Guest editor of INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research on Emerging Topics in Transportation and Logistics, 2024, co-editing with Sibel Alumur Alev and Maximilian Schiffer.
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