Safak Yucel

Education

• Duke University - Ph.D., Operations Management
• Bogazici University - B.S., Industrial Engineering

Research Interests

· Capacity investment in electricity and energy supply chains

· Energy-related operations

· Socially responsible supply chain management

Research Papers

1. Impact of electricity pricing policies on renewable energy investments and carbon emissions, with Gürhan Kök and Kevin Shang. 2016. Forthcoming in Management Science.

· First Place, 2015 Student Paper Award, INFORMS Section on Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment

· Finalist, 2015 MSOM Student Paper Competition

· Invited for presentation at the 2015 MSOM Sustainable Operations SIG Conference

1. Investments in renewable and conventional energy: The role of operational flexibility, with Gürhan Kök and Kevin Shang. 2017. Major Revision in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.

· First Place, 2016 Student Paper Award, POMS College of Sustainable Operations

· Invited for presentation at the 2016 MSOM Sustainable Operations SIG Conference

1.  Inventory management in a closed-loop supply chain with advance demand information, with Li Chen and Kaijie Zhu. 2017. OR Letters, 45(2), 175-180. 
   

2.  Promoting solar panel investments: Feed-in-tariff versus tax-rebate policies, with Volodymyr Babich and Ruben Lobel. 2017. Submitted to Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.
   

3.  Reversing the death spiral: A new business model for utility firms under social network effects, with Gürhan Kök and Kevin Shang. Work in progress.