Graduate Students

Ph.D. Students:

Ongoing:

  • Gozde Yazıcı, Tentative topic: Dynamic Electricity Distribution, (joint with Dr. Oya Ekin Karasan).

Graduated:

  • Ece Cigdem, “Renewable Power Plants in Electricity Markets: The Role of Imbalance Pricing Mechanisms”, 2023 (joint with Dr. Emre Nadar).

  • Parinaz Toufani, “Markov Decision Process Formulations for Management of Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Systems”, 2023 (joint with Dr. Emre Nadar).

  • Meltem Peker, “Network Design Problems for Power Systems Expansion Planning”, 2019 (joint with Dr. Bahar Yetis-Kara).

M.S. Students:

Ongoing:

  • Gulin Yurter, Thesis title: to be determined, Expected Graduation: 2024 (joint with Dr. Emre Nadar).

  • Zeynep Goze Gurkan, Thesis title: to be determined, Expected Graduation: 2024

Graduated:

  • Nazlı Kalkan, “Risk-averse optimal sizing of renewable energy systems with pumped hydro energy storage”, 2022 (joint with Dr. Ozlem Cavus).

  • Beste Akbas, “A Planar Facility Location-allocation Problem with Fixed and Variable Cost Structures for Rural Electrification”, 2021.

  • Gizem Bolukbasi, “Least Cost Network Evaluation of Grid and Off-Grid Electrification Systems”, 2017.

  • Oguzhan Efe Sakrak, “A Capacitated and Distance Limited Continuous Location Allocation Problem for Spatial Planning of Decentralized Distribution Systems”, 2017.

  • Ece Cigdem, “A Newsvendor Approach to an Energy Imbalance Mechanism in a Day-Ahead Electricity Market”, 2017 (joint with Dr. Kemal Guler).

  • Busra Okten, “Metaheuristic Approaches for Bi-objective Stochastic Optimization of a Grid-Connected Decentralized Energy System”, 2017 (joint with Dr. Ozlem Karsu).

  • Ozlem Yilmaz, “A Risk-Averse Approach for Planning of a Hybrid Renewable Energy System”, 2017 (joint with Dr. Ozlem Cavus).

  • Emirhan Bugday, “A Two-level Network Design Problem with Decentralized and Centralized Intermediate Facilities”, 2017 (joint with Dr. Kagan Gokbayrak).

  • Onur Altintas, “Multi-objective optimization of grid connected decentralized renewable energy systems”, 2016 (joint with Dr. Ozlem Karsu)