Industrial Engineering Applications in Emerging Countries (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780367783624)

Bahar Yetis Kara is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Bilkent University.

Dr. Kara holds an M.S. and Ph.D. degree from Bilkent University Industrial Engineering Department, and she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at McGill University in Canada.

Dr. Kara was awarded with "Research Excellence in Ph.D. Studies" by INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science) UPS-SOLA.

In 2008, Dr. Kara was awarded with TUBA-GEBIP (National Young Researchers Career Development Grant) reward. She attended the World Economic Forum in China in 2009. With her research and projects, IAP (Inter Academy Panel) and TWAS (The Academy of Science for the Developing World) awarded her with IAP Young Researchers Grant. Dr. Kara was elected as an associate member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences in 2012. She has been acting as a reviewer for the top research journals within her field. Her current research interests include distribution logistics, humanitarian logistics, hub location and hub network design, and hazardous material logistics.