Suleyman Karabuk received his doctorate from the Industrial and Systems
Engineering of Lehigh University in 2001. He worked for Milliken &
Co. as an operations research analyst until he joined OU in 2003. In industry,
Dr. Karabuk worked on logistics problems at various levels of the textile
manufacturing supply chain and applied optimization, simulation and statistical
analysis approaches.
At Lehigh he was a student affiliate of the Manufacturing Logistics Institute,
where he participated in industry-linked research projects related to
capacity planning in semiconductor industry. His research interests included
a broad range of logistics problems over complex manufacturing supply
chains and under uncertainty. He published in Operations Research, IIE
Transactions, and the Journal of Manufacturing Systems.
Dr. Karabuk also worked as a software developer at an international company
for two years prior to pursuing his doctorate and was involved in the
development and implementation of MRP-II systems. He received his Master
of Science degree from Bilkent University in 1994, where he did research
on scheduling and flexible manufacturing systems.
Research Activities
Supply chain optimization
Production planning and scheduling
Transportation logistics
Information technology applications
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