Alp Akcay
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Contact
- a.akcay@northeastern.edu
- 360 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Research Focus
Simulation-based optimization, digital twins, data analytics, predictive maintenance, semiconductor manufacturing and supply chains
Education
- PhD, Operations Management and Manufacturing, Carnegie Mellon University, 2013
Professional Affiliations
- Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS)
- INFORMS QSR (Quality, Statistics, and Reliability) Society
- I-SIM (INFORMS Simulation Society)
Research Overview
Simulation-based optimization, digital twins, data analytics, predictive maintenance, semiconductor manufacturing and supply chains
Selected Publications
- F. Sloothaak, A. Akcay, G-J. van Houtum, M. van der Heijden (2023). \After-sales services
during an asset’s lifetime: collaborative planning of system upgrades.” Service Science, 15(3),
pp. 212-232, https://doi.org/10.1287/serv.2023.0318. - V. Reshadat, A. Akcay, K. Zervanou, Y. Zhang, E. de Jong (2023). “SCRE: Special cargo
relation extraction using representation learning.” Neural Computing and Applications, 35,
pp. 18783{18801, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-023-08704-9. - P. da Costa, P. Verleijsdonk, S. Voorberg, A. Akcay , S. Kapodistria, W. van Jaarsveld, Y. Zhang
(2023). “Policies for the dynamic traveling maintainer problem with alerts.” European Journal
of Operational Research, 305(3), pp. 1141-1152, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2022.06.044 - M. Dilaver, A. Akcay, G-J. van Houtum (2023). “Integrated planning of asset-use and dry-
docking for a fleet of maritime assets.” International Journal of Production Economics,
256, 108720, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2022.108720. - J. Rhuggenaath, A. Akcay, Y. Zhang and U. Kaymak (2022). “Setting reserve prices in second-
price auctions with unobserved bids.” INFORMS Journal on Computing, 34(6), pp. 2950-2967, https://doi.org/10.1287/ijoc.2022.1199.
Dec 11, 2024
New Faculty Spotlight: Alp Akcay
Alp Akcay joins the mechanical and industrial engineering department in January 2025 as an associate professor.