Emre Alper YILDIRIM
Reader in Operational Research
School of Mathematics
The University of Edinburgh
Research Awards
- 2017: TÜBİTAK (Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council) 2219 International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- 2015: Journal of Global Optimization Best Paper Award for a Paper Published in 2014
- 2011: TÜBA (The Turkish Academy of Sciences) Young Scientist Award (TÜBA-GEBİP)
- 2009: TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Incentive Award
- 2006: INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences) Optimization Society Prize for Young Researchers
- 2004: The Research Foundation of SUNY (State University of New York) Promising Inventor Award
- 2003: National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
- 1999: Givens Research Associateship, Argonne National Laboratory
Teaching Awards and Nominations
- 2022-23: Edinburgh University Student Association (EUSA) Teacher of the Year Nomination in College of Sciences and Engineering, The University of Edinburgh
- Spring 2019: President's List of Teaching Excellence, Koc University
- Spring 2019: Dean's List of Teaching Excellence, College of Engineering, Koc University
- Fall 2016: Dean's List of Teaching Excellence, College of Engineering, Koc University
- Spring 2016: Dean's List of Teaching Excellence, College of Engineering, Koc University
- Spring 2015: Dean's List of Teaching Excellence, College of Engineering, Koc University
- Spring 2014: Dean's List of Teaching Excellence, College of Engineering, Koc University
- 2004: Outstanding Teacher Award, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University
- 1999: Undergraduate Teaching Award, presented to top graduate student Teaching Assistant at the School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University by AIIE (American Institute of Industrial Engineers)
Honours
- July 2022: Plenary Speaker at the 19th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization, Lisbon, Portugal
- December 2017: Plenary Speaker at the 4th Conference on Optimization Methods and Software, Havana, Cuba
- October 2017: Invitation to the Oberwolfach Workshop on Copositivity and Complete Positivity, Oberwolfach, Germany
- May 2012: Plenary Speaker at the 3rd Conference on Optimization Methods and Software, Chania, Crete, Greece