Awards and Distinctions

Best Ph.D. Thesis Award - Swiss Operations Research Society (SVOR/ASRO) prize for an outstanding theoretical or applied Ph.D. Thesis in the field of Operations Research among the theses finalized between 2012-2014.

Best Poster Runner Up Award at the 26th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society held at Athens, Greece on 20 - 24 July, 2008.

Graduated with high honor M.Sc. (3.92/4.00) and B.Sc. (3.71/4.00) degrees.

Scholarship from TUBITAK (The scientific and technological research council of Turkey) during Master studies.

Scholarship from Bogazici University during bachelor studies.

Ranked 5th in the national university entrance exam in Turkey among 1.5 million participants.

Research activities at MIT (research prior to MIT is listed below)

Research projects

• TRIPOD: Sustaimable Travel Incentives with Prediction, Optimization and Personalization

• User Experience team leader
• Personalized menu optimization
• Update of user preferences
• App development

• Urban Mobility Behaviors and Preferences Test Bed

• Project Manager
• App-based Stated Preferences Methods

• - Flexible Mobility on Demand FMOD

• Project Manager
• Personalized menu optimization
• Choice-based assortment optimization
• Integrated vehicle routing and assortment optimization
• Analysis of demand towards FMOD through SP studies

• - Real-time toll optimization on managed lanes based on prediction of demand and traffic conditions

• Project Manager
• Dynamic toll optimization
• Proactive control

Accepted / Published Journal Papers

Becker, F., Song, X., Danaf, M., Atasoy, B. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. (2018) Bayesian Estimator for Logit Mixtures with Inter- and Intra-Consumer Heterogeneity. accepted for publication in Transportation Research Part B

He, H., Atasoy, B. , Brazier, J. C., Zegras, P. C. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. (2018) Alternative Activity Pattern Generation for Stated Preferences Surveys. accepted for publication in Transportation Research Record.

Song, X., Danaf, M., Atasoy, B. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. (2018) Personalized Menu Optimization with Preference Updater: A Boston Case Study. accepted for publication in Transportation Research Record.

Atasoy, B. , Ikeda, T., Song, X. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. (2015) The Concept and Impact Analysis of a Flexible Mobility on Demand System. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies , 56, 373-392.

Atasoy, B. , Ikeda, T. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. (2015) Optimizing a Flexible Mobility on Demand System. Transportation Research Record (TRR) , No. 2536, 76-85.

Book Chapters

Atasoy, B. , Ikeda, T. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. (2016), An Innovative Concept for Paratransit: Flexible Mobility on Demand, in Corinne Mulley , John D. Nelson (ed.) Paratransit: Shaping the Flexible Transport Future (Transport and Sustainability, Volume 8) Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.357 - 375

Submitted Papers / Papers Under Review

Danaf, M., Atasoy, B. , Lima de Azevedo, C., Ding-Mastera, J., Abou-Zeid, M., Cox, N., Zhao, F. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. (2018) Context-aware stated preferences surveys for smart mobility, submitted to Journal of Choice Modeling

Osorio, C. and Atasoy, B. (2017) Efficient simulation-based toll optimization for large-scale networks, submitted to Transportation Science

Song, X., Becker, F., Danaf, M., Atasoy, B. and Ben-Akiva, M. Enhancement of Hierarchical Bayes Procedure for Logit Mixture, under review at Marketing Letters

Gupta, S., Seshadri, R., Atasoy, B. , Prakash, A. A., Pereira, F., Tan, G. and Ben-Akiva, M.E. Real-Time Predictive Control Strategy Optimization under 2nd review at IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Transactions

Working Papers

Danaf, M., Becker, F., Song, X., Atasoy, B. , and Ben-Akiva, M.E. (2017). Personalized recommendations using discrete choice models with inter-and intra-consumer heterogeneity. working paper

Atasoy, B. , Sharif Azadeh, S., Maknoon, Y., Bierlaire, M. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. A choice-based integrated assortment optimization and dynamic pricing for a Flexible Mobility on Demand system. working paper, to be submitted to Transportation Science

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

Atasoy, B. , Lima de Azevedo, C., Danaf, M., Ding-Mastera, J., Abou-Zeid, M., Cox, N., Zhao, F. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. (2018) ConText-aware stated preferences surveys for smart mobility, Presented at 15th International Conference on Travel Behavior Research (IATBR), July 15-20, 2018 in Santa Barbara, California link

Zhang, Y., Atasoy, B. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. (2018) Calibration and Optimization for Adaptive Toll Pricing, TRB 97th Annual Meeting.

Lima de Azevedo, C., Seshadri, R., Gao, S., Atasoy, B., Akkinepally, A. P., Trancik, J. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. (2018) Tripod: Sustainable Travel Incentives with Prediction, Optimization and Personalization, TRB 97th Annual Meeting.

Toledo, T., Jing, P., Atasoy, B., Ding-Mastera, J., Santos, J. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. (2018) Intercity Truck Driver Route Choice Incorporating Drivers' Heterogeneity in Toll Road Usage: Data Collection, Model Estimation, and Model Application, TRB 97th Annual Meeting.

Danaf, M., Becker, F., Song, X., Atasoy, B. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. (2017) Personalized Recommendations using Discrete Choice Models with Inter-and Intra-Consumer Heterogeneity. International Choice Modeling Conference (ICMC) 2017

Song, X., Atasoy, B. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. Smart Mobility through Personalized Menu Optimization. TRB 96th Annual Meeting.

Sharif Azadeh, S., Atasoy, B. , Ben-Akiva, M. E. and Bierlaire, M. (2016) A choice-based integrated assortment optimization and dynamic pricing for a flexible mobility on demand system. Proceedings of 9th Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis (TRISTAN) June 13-17, 2016.

Wang, S., Atasoy, B. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. (2016) Real-time Toll Optimization based on Predicted Traffic Conditions. TRB 95th Annual Meeting.

Gupta, S., Seshadri, R., Atasoy, B. , Pereira, F., Wang, S., Vu, V.-A., Tan, G., Dong, W., Lu, Y., Antoniou, C. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. (2016) Real-time Optimization of Network Control Strategies in DynaMIT2.0. TRB 95th Annual Meeting.

Atasoy, B. , Ikeda, T. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. (2015) Optimized Travel Menus with a Flexible Mobility on Demand System. CASPT 2015 , Rotterdam, The Netherlands, July 19-23, 2015

Atasoy, B. , Ikeda, T. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. (2015) Optimizing a Flexible Mobility on Demand System. Presented at TRB Annual Meeting , Washington, D.C., January 11-15, 2015

Atasoy, B. , Cox, N. C., Ikeda, T. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. (2014) Optimized Travel Options with a Flexible Mobility on Demand System. Presented at Shaping the New Future of Paratransit: An International Conference on Demand Responsive Transit , Monterey, California, October 29-31, 2014 pdf

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Atasoy, B. , Ikeda, T. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. (2014) Optimizing the Menu of Travel Options for a Flexible Mobility on Demand System. Presented at INFORMS Annual Meeting , San Francisco, California, November 09-12, 2014 pdf

Other Presentations

Talk at Research Speed Dating Day, March 10, 2017 Link

EPFL, Conference on Transportation Systems Link

Atasoy, B. , Ikeda, T. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. (2015) Optimizing a Flexible mobility on demand. Presentation at Postdoc Seminar Series, MIT, Feb 11, 2015 link

Atasoy, B. , Ikeda, T. and Ben-Akiva, M. E. (2014) Flexible mobility on demand (FMOD). Poster presentation at 2nd Annual Postdocs Share Their Science Event , MIT, May 12, 2014 pdf

Research activities at EPFL - TRANSP-OR

Papers in international journals
Papers in conference proceedings
Technical reports
External seminars
Research projects
Reviewing

Teaching activities at MIT

Teaching fellow for 1.202 Demand Modeling (taught by Prof. M. E. Ben-Akiva) - Overall rating from students 5.9/7.0 in Spring 2014, 6.6/7/0 in Spring 2015 and 6.8/7/0 in Spring 2016

Instructor for 1.202 Demand Modeling for Spring 2017 with a rating of 4.7/7 from students

Guest lecturer for 1.200 Transportation Systems Analysis: Performance and Optimization (taught by Prof. A. Odoni and Prof. C. Osorio) - Fall 2014 - Gave lecture on Network Flow Models and Variations - Overall rating from students 6.0/7.0

Computer lab leader and instructor for the short course Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Demand and Market Shares (taught by Prof. M. E. Ben-Akiva) - June 16-20, 2014 & June 15-19, 2015 & June 06-10, 2016 & June 12-16, 2017

Teaching activities at EPFL - TRANSP-OR

Courses

Supervised projects

CV

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