Faculty of Management

M. Ali Ülkü

Professor; Director, Centre for Research in Sustainable Supply Chain Analytics

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Faculty of Management , Department of Industrial Engineering , School for Resource and Environmental Studies

Email: ulku@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-4098
Fax: 902-494-1107
Mailing Address: 
Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building
6100 University Avenue, Room 4062
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2
 

Education

  • PhD (Waterloo), Management Sciences
  • MSc (Çukurova), Operations Research
  • BSc (Bilkent), Industrial Engineering

Research Interests

M. Ali Ülkü, Ph.D., P.Eng., is the Director of the Centre for Research in Sustainable Supply Chain Analytics. Dr. Ülkü's research includes studies in circular and sustainable supply chain and (humanitarian) logistics systems, analysis of manufacturing/retailing and service operations, green marketing and optimal contract designs, analytical modelling of sustainable consumption and development, and interdisciplinary research on big data and societal/environmental problems. Ali believes in the "science and teaching of better" and is an avid supporter of student-led research.

Selected Awards and Honours

  • Global Triple E Awardee (Education Champion), 2023
  • Research Star Award, Faculty of Management, 2021
  • Distinguished Professor Award, IEOM Society, 2019
  • Program Chair, Canadian Operational Research Society 60th Annual Conference, 2018
  • Best Paper Award in the Service Science Cluster (runner up), INFORMS Conference, 2013

Selected Recent Publications

  • Sustainable supply chain risk management in a climate-changed world: Review of extant literature, trend analysis, and guiding framework for future research. Yun, N. Y., & Ülkü, M. A. Sustainability, 15(17), 13199  (2023)
  • On the value of shipment consolidation and machine learning techniques for the optimal design of a multimodal logistics network. Oguntola, I. O., Ülkü, M. A., Saif, A., & Engau, A. INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research, 1-52  (2023)
  • Freight delivery in a physical internet supply chain: An applied optimisation model with peddling and shipment consolidation. Chadha, S. S., Ülkü, M. A., & Venkatadri, U. International Journal of Production Research, 60(16), 4995-5011 (2022)
  • A game-theoretic analysis of the impact of government subsidy on optimal product greening and pricing decisions in a duopolistic market. Ling, Y., Xu, J., & Ülkü, M. A. Journal of Cleaner Production 338, 130028  (2022)
  • Reconciling conflict of interests in a green retailing channel with green sales effort. Heydari, J., Bineshpour, P., Walther, G., & Ülkü, M. A. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services 64, 102752  (2022)

Current Teaching