Academic Staff

Dr. Necla Kayaalp Koçhan graduated from the Department of Mathematics at Izmir University of Economics in 2010, and also successfully completed a Double Major Program in Economics. In the same year, she began her master’s studies in Applied Statistics at the same university. Between 2010 and 2017, she worked as a Research Assistant in the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Izmir University of Economics. She completed her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Statistics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. G.Y. Tütüncü with a dissertation titled “A new RNA-Seq data classifier based on quantile transformation.” During her doctoral studies, she was awarded a scholarship by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) and joined the Smyth Lab in Australia for 8 months as a visiting scientist. In 2020, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher for 8 months on a COVID-19 related project. Since 2024, she has been serving as an Assistant Professor (Dr. Öğr. Üyesi) in the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Izmir University of Economics. Her research interests include computational biology, statistical data analysis, fuzzy logic, classification methods, Bayesian classifiers, machine learning, and biostatistics.

Ismihan Bayramoglu (Bairamov) is presently Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey. He graduated from Faculty of Applied Mathematics of Azerbaijan State University and received his PhD degree in probability and statistics from Kiev University, Ukraine in 1988. After his graduation he worked in Institute of Cybernetics of Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan State University and Azerbaijan Aerospace Agency as a researcher and lecturer. Between 1993 and 2001 he worked as a professor teaching probability and statistic courses in Ankara University and from 2001 he teaches in department of Mathematics of Izmir University of Economics. His research interests focus mainly in theory of statistics, probability, theory order statistics, nonparametric statistics and multivariate distributions and copulas. He has published more than 80 articles and chapters in books dealing with wide range of theoretical and applied issues of theoretical statistics and applications. He has organized two international conferences devoted to the advances in characterizations and models and theory of ordered statistical data in Turkey. He has received science prize of Ankara University in 2001 for his contributions. He serves as an associate editor and as a guest editor of several international journals.

Ayşe Beler received her B.Sc. (2012), M.Sc. (2014), and Ph.D. (2023) in Mathematics from Dokuz Eylül University. Her master’s research focused on the numerical solution of nonlinear boundary value problems using a B-spline–based iterated defect correction method, while her doctoral study addressed the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear eigenvalue problems via a new residual method. Between 2020 and 2024, she worked as a research assistant in the Department of Mathematics at Izmir University of Economics. Since 2024, she has been serving in the same department as an Assistant Professor (Dr.). Her research interests include numerical analysis, biomathematical and epidemiological modeling, and computational applied mathematics.

Sevin Gümgüm graduated from Department of Mathematics at Hacettepe University in 2000. Then she continued her education at Middle East Technical University as a MSc student and graduated in 2003. She completed her Ph.D. study in Scientific Computing Program at Middle East Technical University in 2010. She was awarded with the 'METU thesis of the year award' by the Prof. Dr. Mustafa N. Parlar Education and Research Foundation. Since 2003 she has taught Numerical Analysis, Calculus, Differential equations, Numerical solutions of differential equations and Linear Algebra. She conducts studies about numerical analysis, numerical solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations, finite difference, finite element and boundary element methods, numerical solutions of fluid mechanics and magneto hydrodynamics, infinite integrals and numerical solutions of series.

Neslişah İmamoğlu Karabaş received her B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Ege University, and her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from İzmir Institute of Technology. She worked as a Research Assistant at İzmir Institute of Technology between 2013 and 2021. Between 2023 and 2025, she served as a part-time Lecturer at İzmir University of Economics. In January 2025, she joined İzmir University of Economics as a full-time Assistant Professor. Her research interests include numerical solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations.

Cemal Murat Özkut completed his high school education in İzmir Atatürk Lisesi in 2003. In 2009, he received his bachelor's degree as an honor student in Izmir University of Economics Department of Mathematics. At the same time, he started his doctorate in Izmir University of Economics Applied Mathematics and Statistics Ph. D. programme and in June 2015 he completed his Ph.D.under the advisorships of Prof. Dr. İsmihan Bayramoğlu. In addition, he worked as a research assistant in Izmir University of Economics Deparment of Mathematics between September 2009 and August 2015. He started to work as a Asst. Prof. at Izmir University of Economics in February 2019.

G.Yazgı Tütüncü completed her MSc degree in Statistics from Ankara University in 2001 and her MSEng in Industrial Engineering from Başkent University in 2003. She was awarded PhD in Operations Research and Statistics from Coventry University(UK) in 2006. She worked as an Assistant Professor at İzmir University of Economics in Turkey from 2006 to 2008 and at IESEG School Management, Lille Catholic University in France from 2008 to 2010.Curently, she is a Full Professor at İzmir University of Economics, Department of Mathematics. Her research has been in Operations Research, Health Care System Optimization, Heuristic Approaches to Decision Making Problems and Applied Probability focusing on System Optimization and Reliability control. She has published her research previously in International Journal of Management (OMEGA), International Journal of Production Economics and European Journal of Operation Research