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Mehmet Begen

Assistant Professor, Management Science

  • Assistant Professor, Epi. and Biostatistics

Education

  • PhD, Management Science - UBC
  • MSc, Management Science - UBC
  • BSc, Industrial Engineering - METU

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Profile

Professor Mehmet Begen is an industrial engineer and a management scientist with research interests in operations research (OR) applications, healthcare operations management, scheduling, simulation and data-driven approaches.

Besides the Decision Making with Analytics and End User Modeling courses at Ivey, Mehmet has taught courses in optimization and spreadsheet programming in graduate levels at Sauder (UBC).

Mehmet worked in management consulting as a project manager before his Ph.D. studies.

Teaching

  • Decision Making with Analytics, HBA core
  • End User Modeling (Spreadsheet Analytics and VBA), HBA elective

Selected Publications

  • Mehmet A. Begen, Retsef Levi, Maurice Queyranne, "A sampling-based approach to appointment scheduling," to appear in Operations Research.
  • Mehmet A. Begen and Maurice Queyranne, "Appointment scheduling with discrete random durations," Mathematics of Operations Research, 36-2: 240-257, 2011.
  • Mehmet A. Begen, "Stochastic Dynamic Programming Models and Applications", J. J. Cochran (Ed.) Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, Wiley, 2011.
  • Jonathan Patrick and Mehmet A. Begen, "Markov Decision Processes and Its Applications in Healthcare",  Y. Yih (Ed.) Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems, CRC Press, 2011.
  • Pablo Santibáñez, Mehmet A. Begen, Derek Atkins, "Surgical block scheduling in a system of hospitals: An application to resource and wait list management in a BC health authority," Health Care Management Science, 10: 269-282, 2007.
  • Mehmet A. Begen and Marty L. Puterman, "Production planning in JS McMillan: Catch allocation tool design," Information Systems and Operations Research, 41-3: 235-244, 2003.
  • Derek Atkins, Mehmet A. Begen, Bailey Kluczny, Anita Parkinson, Martin L. Puterman, "The 90-10 Rule; OR models help improve passenger flows and customer service at Vancouver International Airport," OR/MS Today, 30-2: 26-29, 2003 (Canadian Operations Research Society Practice Price).
  • Ali C. Begen, Yucel Altunbasak and Mehmet A. Begen, "Rate-distortion optimized on-demand media streaming with server diversity," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference Image Processing, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 2003 (Best Student-paper Award).
  • Alan J. King, Mehmet A. Begen, Monica Cojocaru, Ellen Fowler, Yashar Ganjali, Judy Lai, Taijin Lee, Carmeliza Navasca, Daniel Ryan, "Web hosting service level agreements," Proceedings of the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences Industrial Problem Solving Workshop 2001.

Honours & Awards

  • Second prize for the Informs MSOM Student Paper Competition
  • Runner up for the Informs Computing Society Student Paper Competition
  • Honorable Mention for the CORS Student Paper Competition
  • Honorable Mention for Informs Bonder Scholarship
  • CORS Practice Prize
  • Informs Case Study Competition Finalist

Experience

  • Lecturer (in the MM, MBA and PhD Programs), Sauder School of Business, UBC
  • Project Manager and Associate Director, Research, Centre for Operations Excellence, UBC
  • Graduate and Teaching Assistant, Sauder School of Business, UBC
  • Project Analyst, Centre for Operations Excellence, UBC

Expertise

  • Management Consulting
  • Scheduling
  • Data Driven Approaches
  • Simulation
  • Analytics
  • Operations Research
  • Incentive Alignment
  • Healthcare Operations
  • Spreadsheets & VBA
  • Process & Flow Analysis
  • Project Management
 

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