People/Biographies/AlperAtamturk

Alper Atamturk is a chancellor's professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research at the University of California-Berkeley and head of optimization research at Bloomberg LP. He received his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998 with a major in Operations Research and minor in Computer Science. His research interests are in the broad area of optimization, including conic optimization, mixed-integer programming, and robust optimization with applications to finance and operations.

He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Risk, Discrete Optimization, Operations Research, and Networks. He regularly serves on the organizing committees of optimization conferences. He served as elected vice chair-integer programming of INFORMS Optimization Society. Professor Atamturk was appointed a national security fellow by the US Department of Defense in 2010.