Ozgur Kabadurmus is an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of International Logistics Management, Yasar University (Izmir, Turkey). He received the Ph.D. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Auburn University, USA in 2013 and 2011, respectively. He also received the M.S. and B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey in 2008 and 2005, respectively. His main research areas are applied operations research/metaheuristic optimization, the design of telecommunication systems, and the analysis and design of logistics systems.