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Burhaneddin (Burhan) Sandkc
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
5807 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773.702.4514, Fax: 773.702.0458, e-mail: burhan@chicagobooth.edu
web: faculty.chicagobooth.edu/burhaneddin.sandikci/
Academic Employment
University of Chicago Booth School of Business Chicago, IL
Associate Professor of Operations Management
2013 – present
Assistant Professor of Operations Management
2008 – 2013
Education
Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2008
M.S. in Operations Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
2003
M.S. in Industrial Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, TURKEY
2001
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B.S. in Industrial Engineering, Marmara University, Istanbul,
TURKEY
1999
Awards & Honors
Meritorious Service Award, Operations Research
FMC Faculty Scholar, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
2011
2011 – 2012
Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award, Third place, IIE
2009
Gen¸cRidef Honorary Prize, Rize Dernekleri Federasyonu (United Federation of Rize Associations)
2008
Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant, University of Pittsburgh, Swanson School of Engineering
2008
Travel grant, NSF CMMI Research and Innovation Conference
2008
Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Services, INFORMS
2007
Decision Analysis Society Student Paper Competition, Honorable mention, INFORMS
2007
Future Academician Colloquium, INFORMS
2007
Funded Research
“Collaborative Research: Distributed solution algorithms for large-scale multi-stage stochastic programs”
National Science Foundation (Grant CMMI-1435771), Period: 2014 – 2017, Amount: $120,000, Role: PI
Research Interests
Applications.
Medical decision making, healthcare operations, health services delivery, value of information
Methodologies. Markov decision processes (MDPs), partially observable MDPs, stochastic programming,
simulation
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Publications
Refereed Journals
(in reverse chronological order)
[1] T. Best, B. Sandık¸
cı, D.D. Eisenstein, and D.O. Meltzer. Managing hospital inpatient bed capacity through
partitioning care into focused wings. Forthcoming in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
[2] B. Tanrı¨
over, S. Fernandez, E. Campenot, J.H. Newhouse, I. Oyfe, P. Mohan, B. Sandık¸
cı,
J. Radhakrishnan, J.J. Wexler, M. Carroll, S. Sharif, D.J. Cohen, L.E. Ratner, M.A. Hardy. Live donor renal
anatomic asymmetry and post-transplant renal function. Forthcoming in Transplantation.
[3] B. Sandık¸
cı, L.M. Maillart, A.J. Schaefer, and M.S. Roberts. Alleviating the patient’s price of privacy
through a partially observable waiting list. Management Science, 59(8), 1836–1854, 2013.
[4] M. Lubin, R.K. Martin, C. Petra, and B. Sandık¸
cı. On parallelizing dual decomposition in stochastic integer
programming. Operations Research Letters 41(3), 252–258, 2013.
* Among the “Most Downloaded Operations Research Letters Articles” during the period March-June 2013.
[5] B. Sandık¸
cı, N. Kong, and A.J. Schaefer. A hierarchy of bounds for stochastic mixed-integer programs.
Mathematical Programming 138(1), 253–272, 2013.
[6] B. Sandık¸
cı, L.M. Maillart, A.J. Schaefer, O. Alagoz, and M.S. Roberts. Estimating the patient’s price of
privacy in liver transplantation. Operations Research 56(6), 1393–1410, 2008.
˙ Sabuncuo˘
[7] B. Sandık¸
cı and I.
glu. Analysis of the behavior of the transient period in nonterminating
simulations. European Journal of Operational Research 173(1), 252–267, 2006.
Refereed Book Chapters
[8] B. Sandık¸
cı. Reduction of a POMDP to an MDP. Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and
Management Science, 2010.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
˙ Sabuncuo˘
[9] B. Sandık¸
cı and I.
glu. Warm-up period behavior in steady-state simulations. In Proceedings of
the 35th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, pp. 1681-1686, 2005.
Working Papers
[10] B. Tanrı¨
over, M. Ayvacı, M. Mete, B. Sandık¸
cı, R. Lakhia, D. Tsapepas. Comparative effectiveness analysis
of induction therapy in live donor kidney transplantation on tacrolimus and mycophenolate with or without
steroid maintenance. Submitted.
¨
[11] B. Sandık¸
cı and O.Y. Ozaltın.
A scalable bounding method for multi-stage stochastic integer programs.
Submitted.
[12] M.S. Roberts, C. Bryce, J. Chang, O. Alagoz, B. Sandık¸
cı, M. Demirci, S.N. Proon, and A.J. Schaefer. The
timing of adult living-donor liver transplants in the United States.
Research in Progress
(Authors in alphabetical order and titles temporary)
[13] T. Best, D.D. Eisenstein, and B. Sandık¸
cı. Regional planning of hospital bed capacity in the presence of
patient choice.
[14] B. Sandık¸
cı and B. Tanrı¨
over. A detailed cost-effectiveness analysis of kidney transplantation.
[15] A. Rastpour and B. Sandık¸
cı. Blood inventory management under uncertainty.
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[16] D.D. Eisenstein, B. Sandık¸
cı, M. Stern. Allocating surgery blocks to operating rooms and hospital bed
census.
[17] B. Sandık¸
cı. An agent-based simulation model of the liver transplant waiting list.
[18] B. Sandık¸
cı. Structural estimation of the accept/reject decisions for deceased-donor liver offers.
[19] B. Sandık¸
cı and B. Tanrı¨
over. Managing the capacity of a renal transplant program for post-transplant
outpatient care.
Other Publications
[O1] Estimating the patient’s price of privacy in liver transplantation. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of
Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2008.
[O2] An overview of airline revenue management. M.S. Expository Paper, Department of Operations Research,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2003.
[O3] The behavior of transient period in nonterminating simulations: An experimental analysis. M.S. Thesis,
Department of Industrial Engineering, Bilkent University, 2001.
[O4] Preparing a software for production management systems. Graduation Thesis, Department of Industrial
Engineering, Marmara University, 1999. With M. Ay, E. Sarıkaya, and E. Yurdakul.
[O5] Demand forecasting techniques (in Turkish). Technical Report, Department of Industrial Engineering,
Marmara University, 1999. With E. T¨
ure.
Invited/Refereed Conference Abstracts / Presentations
[C1] Parallel and distributed solution methods for two-stage stochastic (MI)LPs
• ISMP: 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Berlin, Germany, August 19-24, 2012.
[presented by M . Lubin]
[C2] Managing strained inpatient bed capacity through focused wings [multiple titles with new results]
• MSOM Conference, Seattle, WA, June 19-21, 2014.
• EURO: European Conference on Operational Research, Rome, Italy, July 1-4, 2013.
• INFORMS Conference on Healthcare, Chicago IL, June 23-26, 2013. [presented by T.J. Best]
• POMS Annual Meeting, Denver CO, May 3-6, 2013. [presented by T.J. Best]
• EURO: European Conference on Operational Research, Vilnius, Lithuania, July 8-11, 2012.
• POMS Annual Meeting, Chicago IL, April 8-11, 2012.
• Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Chicago IL, October 22-26, 2011. [presented
by T.J. Best]
• IFORS: Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, Melbourne,
Australia, July 10-15, 2011.
• INFORMS Conference on Healthcare, Montreal, Canada, June 20-22, 2011. [presented by D.D. Eisenstein]
• QUIS: 12th International Research Symposium on Service Excellence in Management, Ithaca, NY, June
2-5, 2011. [presented by D.D. Eisenstein]
[C3] The value of partially observable liver transplant waiting list [multiple titles with new results]
• StochMod: Workshop of the EURO working group on Stochastic Modeling, Paris, France, May 30-June 1,
2012.
• YAEM Ulusal Kongresi (National Conference on Operations Research and Industrial Engineering),
Sakarya, Turkey, July 5-7, 2011.
• INFORMS Conference on Healthcare, Montreal, Canada, June 20-22, 2011.
• POMS Annual Meeting, Orlando FL, May 1-4, 2009.
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[C4] Are living-donor liver transplants timed to maximize life expectancy?
• Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Philadelphia PA, October 19-22, 2008.
[C5] Estimating the patient’s price of privacy in liver transplantation [multiple titles with new results]
• NSF Research and Innovation Conference, Knoxville TN, January 7-10, 2008.
• Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Pittsburgh PA, October 20-24, 2007.
• Operations Research in Healthcare Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston MA, May
22-23, 2007.
• Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Boston MA, October 15-18, 2006.
• IERC: Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Orlando FL, May 20-24, 2006.
Media
[M1] Postpone living-donor liver transplants. Capital Ideas, Winter 2013/14, pp 29–30.
[M2] Gaining focus: Managing hospital beds. Capital Ideas, Selected Papers on Operations Management, August
2011, pp. 8–11.
[M3] Price of privacy: The value of revealing waiting list information. Capital Ideas, Selected Papers on Operations
Management, August 2011, pp. 16–19.
[M4] Interview (in Turkish). VakıfRize Dergisi, pp. 64–67, October-November 2008.
Short Academic Visits
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Istanbul
S
¸ ehir University, Istanbul,
TURKEY
¨
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Ozye˘
gin University, Graduate School of Business, Istanbul,
TURKEY
Summer 2013
Summer 2013
Invited Academic Talks
2012 Georgia Tech (ISyE); University of Illinois at Chicago (MIE); METU - Middle East Technical University
(IE), Turkey; TOBB University of Economics and Technology (IE), Turkey; University at Buffalo (ISE)
2011 Southern Methodist University (Cox);
University of Minnesota (Carlson);
University of Minnesota (ISE)
2010 University of Southern California (Marshall); Northwestern University (IEMS); University of Chicago
(Pritzker School of Medicine, Surgical Grand Rounds in Transplantation);
Northwestern University
(Kellogg-MEDS)
2009 Northwestern University (IEMS)
2008 University of Chicago (Health Economics Workshop); University of Michigan (IOE); Stanford University
(School of Medicine);
University of Chicago (GSB - Operations Workshop);
University of Waterloo
(Management Sciences); University of Western Ontario (Ivey School of Business)
2007 Bo˘
gazi¸ci University (IE), Turkey
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Teaching
As an Instructor
(with full teaching responsibility)
A. University of Chicago
1. Chicago Booth – MBA curriculum
BUS 36106 - Managerial Decision Modeling
2. Chicago Booth – PhD curriculum
BUS 40901 - Special Topics in Operations Management
2009 – present
Spring 2011; Spring 2013
B. University of Pittsburgh
1. Swanson School of Engineering – undergraduate program
ENGR 20 - Probability and Statistics for Engineers I
Summer 2007
C. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1. Kenan-Flagler School of Business – undergraduate program
BA 24 - Introduction to Management Science
2. Department of Mathematics – undergraduate program
MATH 22 - Calculus for Business and Economics
MATH 30 - Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry
Spring 2003
Spring 2002; Fall 2003
Fall 2002
As an Invited Guest Lecturer
(teaching up to 2 full sessions; all graduate courses)
A. University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
PP 44810 - Advanced Topics for Comparative Effectiveness Research
2012
B. Northwestern University Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences
IEMS 490 - Health Policy Modeling
C. University of Pittsburgh Department of Industrial Engineering
2009
2006 – 2008
IE 3077 - Therapeutic Optimization
IE 3093 - Stochastic Programming
IE 3098 - Advanced Topics in Markov Decision Processes
D. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
CLRES 2121 - Clinical Decision Analysis
2007
Student Supervision
Thomas J. Best, Chicago Booth PhD student, 2009–present. Co-advised with Don Eisenstein.
Finalist - INFORMS Health Applications Society 2013 Student Paper Competition.
Matt Stern, Chicago Booth PhD student, 2010–2013. Co-advised with Don Eisenstein.
Miles Lubin, University of Chicago undergraduate senior student, 2011–2012. Co-advised with Kipp Martin.
Current position: PhD student at MIT Operations Research Center.
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Professional Service
Committees
Judge, MSOM Student Paper Competition
2014
Organizing Committee, Health Systems Optimization Workshop, Chicago, IL
2014
Program Committee, Global Conference on Healthcare Systems Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
2014
Co-chair, INFORMS MSOM Conference, Healthcare Operations Management SIG, INSEAD, France
2013
Organizing Committee, INFORMS Conference on Healthcare, Chicago IL
2013
Co-chair, INFORMS Health Applications Society Student Paper Competition
2013
Treasurer, INFORMS Health Applications Society
2010 – 2012
Member, Review committee for PhD program in Operations, University of Chicago Booth School of Business 2012
Organizer, Operations workshops, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Judge, POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management Best Paper Competition
2009, 2011, 2015
2011, 2013
Referee
Management Science; Operations Research; Manufacturing & Service Operations Management;
Mathematical Programming; INFORMS Journal on Computing; Operations Research Letters; Omega, The
International Journal of Management Science; Healthcare Management Science; Interfaces; MSOM
Conference 2011-2014; SMDM Conference 2011-2013; Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory; Wiley
Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science
Session Organizer/Chair
Health Systems Optimization Workshop
EURO Working Group on Stochastic Modeling
INFORMS Annual Meetings
INFORMS Conference on Healthcare
INFORMS Midwest Regional Conference
POMS Annual Meeting
Industrial Engineering Research Conference
2014
2012
2006 – 2011
2011, 2013
2011
2012
2006
Memberships
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE)
Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)
Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM)
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