Gülşah Karakaya is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Administration (BA). She received her BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the Department of Industrial Engineering at METU. She worked as a research/teaching assistant in the same department during her graduate studies. Before joining METU BA, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. Her research interests include quantitative decision methods, multiple criteria decision-making, evolutionary algorithms, combinatorial auctions, and feature selection. She is a member of INFORMS, International Society on MCDM, and Operational Research Society of Turkey. She is the recipient of the 2017 METU Young Researcher Award and the 2025 Science Academy Young Scientist Awards Program (BAGEP).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Office: H123

E-mail: kgulsah at metu.edu.tr

Web: http://blog.metu.edu.tr/kgulsah/

Phone: +90(312)210-2015

Fax: +90(312)210-7962

Mailing Address: Department of Business Administration, Middle East Technical University 06800 Ankara - TURKEY

Research Interests

Multiple criteria decision making 

Quantitative decision methods  

Feature selection

Evolutionary algorithms

Education

BSc in Industrial Engineering, METU, 2007

MSc in Industrial Engineering, METU, 2009

PhD in Industrial Engineering, METU, 2013

Post-doc in Pillar of Engineering Systems and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design, 2014 

Courses Taught

BA 3504 – Management Science

BA 4517 – Decision Analysis: Tools and Methods

BA 4519 – Simulation and Quantitative Models in Business

BA 5503 – Management Science

BAS 352 – Management Science