Canan Gunes Corlu

Canan Gunes Corlu serves as the faculty coordinator for the Supply Chain Management programs at MET. She has both face-to-face and online teaching experience, and at MET she teaches courses in operations management and supply chain management. Her research is in the area of simulation-based optimization and data analytics with applications in operations management. She also uses simulation to address problems in supply chain management. Her research has appeared in a variety of publications, including the two leading journals of the field – Operations Research and IISE Transactions. Her work was recognized by the INFORMS Minority Issues Forum Best Paper Competition in 2017 and 2018. She is the recipient of the INFORMS Simulation Society Committee for Underrepresented Minorities and Women (CUMW) award in 2009.

Dr. Corlu has been currently serving as INFORMS Simulation Society’s (I-Sim) treasurer. She was I-Sim’s communications editor from 2018 to 2020. She served as the treasurer of the INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) from 2016 to 2020. She has been a program committee member for the INFORMS Winter Simulation Conference Logistics, Supply Chain Management, and Transportation track, as well as Modeling Methodology track since 2011. This year, she is co-chairing the Model Uncertainty and Robust Simulation track. She is an associate editor for the Journal of Simulation and an editorial board member of the Journal of Business Analytics.