Fatma Kılınç Karzan

PHONE

412-268-9198

OFFICE

POS - Posner Hall - Room 233A

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Operations Research

EDUCATION

Georgia Institute of Technology - Ph D (Industrial and Systems Engineering) - 2011
Middle East Technical University - MS (Industrial Engineering) - 2005
Middle East Technical University - BS (Industrial Engineering) - 2003

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Theory and algorithms for mathematical programming; Large-scale optimization and applications in machine learning, structured recovery, and statistics; Decision making under uncertainty; Operations research applications.

USEFUL LINKS

Personal Web Page

PUBLICATIONS

• How to convexify the intersection of a second-order cone and a nonconvex quadratic

(author(s): Samuel Burer, Fatma Kılınç-Karzan) Mathematical Programming 162(1), 2017; 393-429

• On minimal inequalities for mixed integer conic programs

Mathematics of Operations Research 41(2), 2016; 477 - 510

• On sublinear inequalities for mixed integer conic programs

(author(s): Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, Daniel Steffy) Mathematical Programming 159(1), 2016; 585-605

• Disjunctive conic sets, conic minimal inequalities, and cut-generating functions
  INFORMS Optimization Society Newsletter

2016

• Faster first-order methods for extensive-form game solving

(author(s): Christian Kroer, Kevin Waugh, Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, Tuomas Sandholm) Proceedings of 16th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC), 2015; 817-834

• Two-term disjunctions on the second-order cone

(author(s): Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, Sercan Yildiz) Mathematical Programming 154(1), 2015; 463-491

• Saddle points and accelerated Perceptron algorithms

(author(s): Adams Yu, Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, Jaime Carbonell) International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 32, 2014; 1827 - 1835

• Two-term disjunctions for conic sets
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science

(author(s): Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, Sercan Yildiz) 17th Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO) 8494, 2014; 345-356

• Business analytics assists transitioning traditional medicine to telemedicine at Virtual Radiologic

(author(s): Ersin Korpeoglu, Zachary Kurtz, Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, Sunder Kekre, Pat Basu) Interfaces 44(4), 2014; 393 - 410

• A unified view of nullspace type conditions for recoveries associated with general sparsity structures

(author(s): Anatoli Juditsky, Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, Arkadi Nemirovski) Linear Algebra and Its Applications 441, 2014; 124-151

• Randomized first order algorithms with applications to $\ell_1$ minimization

(author(s): Anatoli Juditsky, Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, Arkadi Nemirovski) Mathematical Programming 142(1-2), 2013; 269-310

• Accuracy guarantees for $\ell_1$-recovery of block-sparse signals

(author(s): Anatoli Juditsky, Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, Arkadi Nemirovski, Boris Polyak) Annals of Statistics 40(6), 2013; 3077 - 3107

• On the accuracy of $\ell_1$-filtering of signals with block-sparse structure

(author(s): Anatoli Juditsky, Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, Arkadi Nemirovski, Boris Polyak) Proceedings of the 24th Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Conference, 2011; 1260-1268

• Verifiable conditions of $\ell_1$-recovery for sparse signals with sign restrictions

(author(s): Anatoli Juditsky, Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, Arkadi Nemirovski) Mathematical Programming 127(1), 2011; 89-122

• On low rank matrix approximations with applications to synthesis problem in compressed sensing

(author(s): Anatoli Juditsky, Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, Arkadi Nemirovski) SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications 32, 2011; 1019-1029

• Approximating the stability region for binary mixed-integer programs

(author(s): Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, Alejandro Toriello, Shabbir Ahmed, George Nemhauser, Martin Savelsbergh) Operations Research Letters 37(4), 2009; 250-254

• Information based branching rules for binary mixed-integer programs

(author(s): Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, George Nemhauser, Martin Savelsbergh) Mathematical Programming Computation 1(4), 2009; 249-293

• The tool transporter movements problem in flexible manufacturing systems

(author(s): Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, Meral Azizoglu) International Journal of Production Research 46, 2008; 3059-3084

WORKING PAPERS

• Dynamic data-driven estimation of non-parametric choice models

(author(s): Nam Ho-Nguyen, Fatma Kılınç-Karzan) 27

• Theoretical and practical advances on smoothing for extensive-form games

(author(s): Christian Kroer, Kevin Waugh, Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, Tuomas Sandholm) 22

• On intersection of two mixing sets with applications to joint chance-constrained programs

(author(s): Xiao Liu, Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, Simge Kucukyavuz) 30

• Accelerating optimization under uncertainty via online convex optimization

(author(s): Nam Ho-Nguyen, Fatma Kılınç-Karzan) 30

• Low-complexity relaxations and convex hulls of disjunctions on the positive semidefinite cone and general regular cones

(author(s): Sercan Yildiz, Fatma Kılınç-Karzan) 31

• A second-order cone based approach for solving the trust region subproblem and its variants

(author(s): Nam Ho-Nguyen, Fatma Kılınç-Karzan) 28

• Sufficient conditions and necessary conditions for the sufficiency of cut-generating functions

(author(s): Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, Boshi Yang) 21

• Scheduling time-critical flowshops: An example from the steel industry

(author(s): Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, Jayant Kalagnanam, Andrew Davenport, Stuart Siegel, Chandra Reddy) IBM Research Report No. RC-25065, 2010

AWARDS AND HONORS

• INFORMS - 2015 INFORMS Optimization Society Young Researcher Prize (2015)
• National Science Foundation - NSF CAREER Award (2015)
• INFORMS - 1st prize for 2014 INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Best Paper Award Competition (2014)
• INFORMS - Finalist for the INFORMS Data Mining Best Student Paper Award Competition (2014)
• Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - BP Junior Faculty Chair (2014)
• Carnegie Mellon University - Berkman Grant Awardee (2013)
• INFORMS - 3rd Prize Winner in INFORMS Case Competition for the case "Redesigning Pittsburgh Port Authority’s Bus Transit System" (2013)
• Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - Faculty Giving Chair (2012)
• CMU Eberly Center of Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation - Wimmer Faculty Fellow (2012)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

• Tepper School Strategic Planning (Research) Committee, Committee Member (2016 - )
• Master''s Academic Actions Committee, Committee Member (2016 - )
• Operations Research Faculty Recruiting Committee, Committee Member (2016 - )
• Undergraduate Business Administration Educational Affairs Committee, Committee Member (2014 - )
• CMU INFORMS Student Chapter, Student Org Advisor (Professional Org) (2013 - )
• MBA Business Analytics Capstone Project at Industrial Scientific Corporation, Track Coordinator, MBA Business Analytics Capstone Project at Industrial Scientific Corporation (2015 - 2016)
• MBA Business Analytics Capstone Project at PNC Center, Track Coordinator, MBA Business Analytics Capstone Project at PNC Center (2015 - 2016)
• "Data Analytics to Improve Service and Expand the Market for Intercity Rail" Systems Project, Advisory Board Member for Systems Project at CMU Heinz School (2015 - 2015)
• Undergraduate Curriculum Review Committee, Committee Member (2013 - 2014)
• "Putting Intelligent Transportation Systems to Work in the New Fiscal Reality: Port Authority System Analysis and Market Plan" Systems Project, Advisory Board Member for Systems Project at CMU Heinz School (2013 - 2013)
• MBA Business Analytics Capstone Project at United Oil Refining Company and Crossett Inc., Track Coordinator, MBA Business Analytics Capstone Project at United Oil Refining Company and Crossett Inc. (2012 - 2013)
• Egon Balas Award (2013), Committee Member (2012 - 2013)
• Thompson Dissertation Award (2012), Committee Member (2011 - 2012)

CONSULTING

• National Science Foundation (2014 - 2016)
• Industrial Scientific Corporation (January 2016 - May 2016)
• PNC Bank (January 2016 - May 2016)
• Crossett Inc. (January 2013 - June 2013)
• United Refining Company (January 2013 - June 2013)
• Virtual Radiologic (August 2012 - December 2012)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Workshop Organizer, Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) Workshop 2017 (April 2016 - August 2017)
• Session Chair, MOPTA (2016 - 2016)
• Panelist, National Science Foundation (NSF) (2016 - 2016)
• Committee Member, INFORMS Optimization Society Meeting, Program Committee (2015 - 2016)
• Session Chair, INFORMS Optimization Society Meeting (2015 - 2016)
• Session Chair, INFORMS Annual Meeting (2012 - 2016)
• Committee Member, Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) Workshop 2016, Program Committee (April 2015 - August 2016)
• Session Chair, International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT) (2015 - August 2016)
• Committee Member, INFORMS Optimization Society Best Student Paper Prize (2015 - November 2015)
• Session Chair, International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP) 2015 (2014 - 2015)
• Committee Member, Local Organizing Committee for the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP) 2015, Publicity Chair (2012 - August 2015)
• Co-Chairperson, International Symposium on Mathematical Programming 2015 , Cluster Co-chair (Conic Programming) (July 2014 - July 2015)
• Panelist, National Science Foundation (NSF) (2014 - 2014)
• Session Chair, INFORMS Optimization Society Meeting (2013 - 2014)
• Session Chair, MOPTA (2012 - 2014)
• Grant Proposal Reviewer, FONDECYT National Research Funding Competition of Chile (2011)

COURSES TAUGHT

• Applications of Operations Research (45850) 2016 Mini 1 Section: A, E
  2014 Mini 1 Section: A, E
  2013 Mini 1 Section: A, E

• Linear Programming (47834) 2016 Mini 1 Section: A
  2014 Mini 1 Section: A
  2012 Mini 1 Section: A

• Math Mdls Fr Cnsltng (70460) 2015 Section: A

• Applications Of Operations Research (45850) 2015 Mini 1 Section: A, E

• Optimization Models For Operations (45854) 2015 Mini 2 Section: A

• Modern Convex Optimization (47851) 2014 Mini 2 Section: A

• Optimization Models for Operations (45854) 2014 Mini 3 Section: A

• Business Analytics Capstone (45959) 2013 Section: A

• MATH MDLS FR CNSLTNG (70460) 2012 Section: A

• Mathematical Models for Consulting (70460) 2012 Section: A

• Optimization Models for Operations (45862) 2012 Mini 3 Section: A

• Convex Analysis (47860) 2011 Mini 2 Section: A