Halit Üster

• Transportation and logistics
• Network design
• Decomposition methods for optimization
• Stochastic optimization
• Applied and computational optimization with applications in freight transportation, emergency response, bioenergy supply networks, closed loop supply chains, and telecommunications

Selected Awards and Recognition

• Caterpillar Teaching Excellence Award, Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2011.
• Eshbach Society Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science, Northwestern University, 2009.
• Faculty Appreciation Award, INFORMS Student Chapter, 2004 and 2009, Texas A&M University. 
• Research Featured in the IE Magazine, “Strategic Emergency Preparedness Network Design Integrating Supply and Demand Sides in a Multi-Objective Approach,” March 2017.
• Research Featured in the IE Magazine, “A Closed-Loop Supply Chain Network Design Problem with Integrated Forward and Reverse Channel Decisions,” November 2010.
• Research Featured in the IE Magazine, “Integrated Warehouse Location and Inventory Decisions in Three- Tier Distribution Systems,” August 2008.
• Finalist for the Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research, INFORMS, 2008, “An Integrated Outbound Logistics Model for Frito-Lay: Coordinating Aggregate Level Production and Distribution Decisions,” with S. Cetinkaya, G. Easwaran, and B. Keskin.
• Moving Spirit Award, INFORMS, 2007.
• Outstanding Faculty Member, voted by the IIE Chapter at the U of Alabama, 1999-2000.