Ongoing research
Drone Routing Problem (Transportation)
M-Patrolling Problem
Human Resources Analytics (AI/ML in business)
Decision Support Systems-based Approach for Stroke Prediction (AI/ML in healthcare)
An AI/ML Application in Healthcare
Research activities
- Mila Mitovski: Optimizing Drone Routing for Surveillance and Inspection Applications Mitovski received a WMU Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Excellence Award.
- Aylin Aytemiz: A Machine Learning-based Decision Support System for Predicting and Preventing Stroke. Aytemiz received a WMU Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Excellence Award.
- Eren Darici and Kira Hamelink: Human Resources Analytics: Determining Possible Turnovers with a Feature Engineering Accepted 9th North American Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management in Washington DC, organized by the Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. Both students received the Graduate College competitive research and/or travel grant for spring 2024.
- Dr. Islam Altin, postdoctoral research scholar, is funded by Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (Tubitak) for his research about Drone Arc Routing Problems and Applications with Dr. Ilgin Acar supervising.
- Recent paper titled as “Multi-Depot General Colored Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows in Home Healthcare System: A Medication Delivery Example” submitted to a Science Citation Indexed journal. Authors: Ilgin Acar and Islam Altin
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Meet the team
Dr. Ilgin Acar
Acar is director of the WMU Optimization, Data, and Decision Science Lab and an assistant professor of industrial and entrepreneurial engineering and engineering management. her research interests include operations research, healthcare optimization and staff assignment and scheduling.
Dr. Islam Altin
Altin is a post-doctoral researcher. His postdoctoral project aims to investigate different types of Drone Arc Routing Problems, perform the applications with surveillance drones, and propose novel solution methods for these problems and is supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). He received the Ph.D. from Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Türkiye.
Kira Hamelink, M.S.'23, B.S.'21
Kira Hamelink ris a doctoral student in indutrial engineering. Her research interests include optimization, applied operations research, artificial intelligence and machine learning, data analytics, and engineering education. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from WMU and is a part-time computer science instructor at Kalamazoo Valley Community College.
Eren Darici
Darici is graduate student in industrial engineering. He has worked as an industrial engineer. After earning his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering in 2023 from Eskisehir Technical University, Türkiye, he worked as an industrial engineer. His research interests include optimization, scheduling, and applied-machine learning.
Aylin Aytemiz
Aytemiz is a senior majoring in computer science and minoring in data science at Western Michigan University. Her research interests include machine learning and AI applications in healthcare. She is working on a project titled “A Machine Learning- based Decision Support System for Predicting and Preventing Stroke," which received a WMU Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Excellence Award.
Mila Mitovski
Mitovski is an undergraduate student in industrial engineering and data science. She has experience in cold chain logistics, leveraging warehouse management data to enhance throughput and utilization efficiencies. Her interests include routing, logistics and network optimization. Mitovski received a WMU Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Excellence Award for her project “Optimizing Drone Routing for Surveillance and Inspection Applications."