Ibrahim Kucukkoc

I am pursuing my PhD degree in Manufacturing Engineering at University of Exeter, UK (granted a 4-year scholarship by Balikesir University and Turkish Council of Higher Education). I also work as Research Assistant for the Balikesir University, Department of Industrial Engineering.

I received my BSc degree from Selcuk University (Turkey) in 2009, and MSc degree from Balikesir University (Turkey) in 2011, both in Industrial Engineering. Throughout my MSc education I am awarded Master Scholarship by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). After finishing my BSc, I worked for a trailer manufacturer as production planner for six months and gained many engineering skills during this period.

I serve as a member of Editorial Board of An International Journal of Optimization and Control: Theories & Applications (IJOCTA) since 2011, IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) since 2012, and Journal of Computer Sciences and Applications since 2013. I also carry out peer-reviewing works for many reputed academic journals including Assembly Automation (Emerald), Neural Computing and Applications (Springer), Journal of Facilities Management (Emerald), The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering (SAJIE), Iberoamerican Journal of Industrial Engineering (IJIE), and International Journal of Research in Computer Science (IJORCS). I involved in the organisation of well-recognised conferences such as OR55 - The OR Society Annual Conference (UK), YOR18 - The OR Society Biennial Conference (UK), and 19th National Ergonomics Congress (Turkey). I have been accredited to the level of the Candidate Associate of the Operational Research Society UK (CandORS).

My areas of particular interest includes assembly line balancing, production planning, operations research, heuristic algorithms, genetic algorithm, ant colony optimisation, multi-agent systems, and artificial intelligence.