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Derya Demirtas is an assistant professor at the Center for Healthcare Operations Improvement & Research (CHOIR) in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems at the University of Twente. Her research focuses on operations research, optimization and data analytics, location theory and their applications to healthcare and public services.
Dr. Demirtas is a recipient of the NWO (Dutch Research Council) Veni grant (2019), American Heart Association (AHA) Young Investigator Award (2015), and the Best Poster Award by the National Association of EMS Physicians (2016). She also won the second place in the INFORMS Case Competition (2020) and second place in the INFORMS Section on Public Sector Operations Research best paper competition (2012). Her research has been published in top journals such as Management Science, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and Circulation. In 2018, she was a visiting faculty in the Industrial and Systems Engineering and in the Center for Health & Humanitarian Systems at Georgia Tech, where she worked on disaster response.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND: Dr. Demirtas received her BSc in Industrial Engineering with a double major in Computer Engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Turkey (2008). She then obtained her MMath in Combinatorics & Optimization from the University of Waterloo, Canada (2010), and her PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada (2016).
IN THE MEDIA: Dr. Demirtas's research has been publicized by several media outlets including US News, the Globe and Mail, CTV News and Toronto Sun, and promoted by the Univ. of Twente: https://youtu.be/CFS6F3gkCrY.
Operations research, optimization, spatial data analytics and their applications in healthcare and humanitarian sector: in particular, linear and integer programming, facility location under uncertainty, covering problems, spatiotemporal trend analysis, public health resource planning, post-disaster recovery and emergency service location problems.
The focus of Dr. Demirtas’s research is on data-driven decision making aimed at improving healthcare and humanitarian systems. Her projects include:
Instructor, Industrial Engineering & Management Bachelor and Master’s Program (2016 – present)
Coordinator & Instructor, Health Sciences Master's Program (2021 - present)
Instructor, European Association of Hospital Managers (EAHM) (2018)
Guest lecturer, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal (2018)
Instructor, Global Faculty Program, Monterrey Inst. of Technology, Mexico (2018)
Instructor, Health Sciences Bachelor Program (2016)
Author, Case Study on Maximizing Team Diversity in a First-year Engineering Course, University of Toronto (2015)
Guest Lecturer, MIE 258 Engineering Economics and Accounting, University of Toronto (2015)
Certificate in Prospective Professors in Training, University of Toronto (2014)
Guest Lecturer, MIE 468 Facility Planning, University of Toronto (2013)
Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto (2010 – 2015)
Teaching Assistant, Division of Engineering Science, University of Toronto (2011)
Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo (2008 – 2010)
PhD, University of Toronto
Award Date: 2 Feb 2016
Master, University of Waterloo
Award Date: 8 Aug 2010
Visiting Faculty, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2018 → Apr 2018
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting Abstract › Academic
Demirtas, Derya (Recipient), 2018
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Relijveld, Sven (Recipient), Demirtas, Derya (Contributor) & IJzerman, Maarten J. (Contributor), 2021
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Derya Demirtas (Visiting researcher)
Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution
Derya Demirtas (Member of editorial board)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work
Derya Demirtas (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work
Patricia Barbara Rogetzer (Invited speaker), Derya Demirtas (Contributor), Gelbrich R.B. Holsbrink (Contributor) & Nancy ter Bogt (Contributor)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
17/09/17
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