Dr Elvan Gokalp

Dr Elvan Gokalp

Business School
Associate Professor

Contact details

Email
e.gokalpozpolat@bham.ac.uk
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Address
Biirmingham Business School
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Elvan Gokalp is an Associate Professor of Business Analytics at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. Elvan specialises in mathematical modelling of decision-making under uncertainty in complex settings. She uses reinforcement learning, simulation modelling and other operations research techniques to help organizations improve their policies. She is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy.

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Qualifications

  • PhD in Operations Research, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, 2018
  • MSc. in Management Science, London School of Economics, 2013
  • BSc. Industrial Engineering, Bogazici University, 2012

Biography

Elvan received her undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering from Bogazici University, Turkey where she graduated with high honour. Then, she has completed a MSc. degree in Management Science from London School of Economics. She then completed a PhD in Operations Research in Warwick Business School. Her PhD thesis focused on  decision-making problems under uncertainty in various healthcare settings. She then has been a Post-doctoral Research Associate in ‘Future Targeted Healthcare Manufacturing’ programme.

In University of Warwick, she also taught in MSc. in Healthcare Operations Management. She was a lecturer between 2020-2024 in Information, Decisions and Operations group in School of Management, University of Bath.

Teaching

MSc. in Business Analytics

Postgraduate supervision

Healthcare Operations Managemen; Machine/Reinforcement Learning; Stochastic programming; Simulation modelling

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Gokalp Ozpolat, E, Cakir, S & Satis, H 2023, 'Dynamic capacity planning of hospital resources under COVID-19 uncertainty using approximate dynamic programming', Journal of the Operational Research Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2023.2168570

Gokalp Ozpolat, E, Gülpınar, N & Doan, XV 2023, 'Dynamic surgery management under uncertainty', European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 309, no. 2, pp. 832-844. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2022.12.006

Gokalp Ozpolat, E & Sanci, E 2023, 'Robust capacity planning for sterilisation department of a hospital', International Journal of Production Research, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 726-740. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2021.2015807

Gökalp, E, Cakir, S & Kougkoulos, I 2022, 'Capacity management of migrant accommodation centers using approximate dynamic programming', Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol. 73, no. 6, pp. 1198-1210. https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2021.1907242

Gallacher, D, Stallard, N, Kimani, P, Gokalp Ozpolat, E & Branke, J 2022, 'Development of a model to demonstrate the impact of National Institute of Health and Care Excellence cost‐effectiveness assessment on health utility for targeted medicines', Health Economics, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 417-430. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4459

Gokalp Ozpolat, E 2021, 'Fertilizer application management under uncertainty using approximate dynamic programming', Computers & Industrial Engineering, vol. 161, 107624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2021.107624

Gokalp Ozpolat, E, Gulpinar, N & Doan, V 2020, 'Capacity Planning for Networks of Stem‐Cell Donation Centers under Uncertainty', Production and Operations Management.

Gokalp Ozpolat, E & Branke, JUERGEN 2020, 'Pharmaceutical R & D pipeline management under trial duration uncertainty', Computers and Chemical Engineering.

Gokalp Ozpolat, E 2020, 'Robust capacity planning for accident and emergency services', RAIRO - Operations Research.

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