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Emrah Demir

Professor Emrah Demir

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Overview

Emrah Demir is a Professor of Operational Research within the Logistics and Operations Management Section at Cardiff Business School. Prior to his post at Cardiff University, Professor Demir served as an Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering and a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Baskent University, Turkey, and a PhD in Management Science from the University of Southampton.

Professor Demir's research is primarily focused on green logistics, AI, and human/AI collaborative decision-making, alongside operational research. His work emphasises the application of optimiaation to real-world freight transportation challenges. His expertise encompasses quantitative and analytical methods, including both exact and approximation techniques. He has a publication record, with over 60 journal articles and six book chapters, and his work has recieved more than 6,600 citations (with an h-index of 33 on Google Scholar). Additionally, he is an active reviewer for several prestigious international journals in the fields of operational research, transportation, and logistics. Professor Demir has also secured numerous external grants from various funding bodies, details of which are available in the Research section.

Professor Demir has extensive experience teaching courses in Logistics, Operations Management, Project Management, and Operational Research. He also supervises undergraduate and postgraduate students across a range of related topics, including green vehicle routing, intermodal transportation, and integrated transportation systems.

Professor Demir holds several editorial positions, including:

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Research

Research interests

  • Green Logistics
  • Intermodal Transportation
  • City Logistics
  • Operational Research
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Human/AI Collaborative Decision-Making

Research grants

  • Colombia-UK PACT Programme (2023-2024): GIRO-ZERO - Steering the Colombian road freight sector towards a zero emissions strategy: Giro-Zero
  • Colombia-UK PACT Programme (2022-2023): GIRO-ZERO - Steering the Colombian road freight sector towards a zero emissions strategy: Giro-Zero
  • Ocado Group plc (2022): Operational excellence in logistics and supply chain management: Executive training
  • Colombia-UK PACT Programme (2021-2022): GIRO-ZERO - Steering the Colombian road freight sector towards a zero emissions strategy: Giro-Zero
  • Ocado Group plc (2021): Operational excellence in logistics and supply chain management: Executive training
  • Ocado Group plc (2019-2020): Developing and testing analytical models to measure and optimise food waste in the Ocado supply chain
  • ESRC - Cheshire & Warrington LEP (2019): Analytical support for local industrial strategies: Researcher placements in local enterprise partnerships
  • Ocado Group plc (2019-2021): Knowledge Transfer Partnership Project: Enhancing the routing system to allow optimisation of a country-wide home delivery network: KTP
  • CILT Seed corn funding (2018-2019): Truck Platooning
  • Ocado Group plc (2018): Addressing Salad Supply Chains
  • ESRC/Panalpina (2017-2018): Conquering the last mile
  • ESRC/Panalpina (2017-2018): Same day, same way?

Teaching

Current teaching commitments

  • BS3010 Analysing and Improving Operations, Module Leader
  • BS3008 Logistics in the Digital Age, Module Leader
  • MSc Dissertation Supervision

Previous teaching commitments

  • MSc Grand Challenges in Logistics and Operations Management
  • BSc Advanced Operations Management (Year 3)
  • BSc Operations Management (Year 2)
  • MBA Strategic Operations Management
  • MBA Dissertation Supervision

Previous academic leadership commitments

  • Logistics and Operations Management (LOM) section - Deputy Head of Section (Learning & Teaching) (August 2021 - October 2022)
  • Logistics and Operations Management (LOM) section - Senior Coordinator of Learning & Teaching (October 2020 - July 2021)
  • Programme Director of MSc Logistics and Operations Management (August 2018 -September 2022)

Biography

Qualifications

  • 2012 - PhD in Management Science, Southampton University, Southampton, United Kingdom (academic scholarship)
  • 2008 - MSc in Industrial Engineering, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey (academic scholarship)
  • 2005 - BSc (4 years) in Industrial Engineering, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey  (partial academic scholarship)

Professional memberships

  • Director of Business & Economics Artificial Intelligence Research (BEAR) Network 
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
  • Member of COPIOR (The Committee of Professors of Operational Research)
  • Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT)
  • Co-Director PARC Institute of Manufacturing, Logistics and Inventory
  • Member of Logistics and Systems Dynamics Group (LSDG)

Academic positions

  • 2021 - present: Professor of Operational Research
  • 2019 - Reader in Management Science
  • 2016 - Senior Lecturer in Management Science
  • 2013 - Assistant Professor, School of Industrial Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • 2012 - Postdoc Researcher, School of Industrial Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • 2009-2012: PhD Candidate, Southampton Business School, University of Southampton
  • 2005-2009: Research/Teaching Assistant, Department of Industrial Engineering, Baskent University, Turkey

Committees and reviewing

  • Area Editor (Logistics and Supply Chain Management) of Journal of Heuristics (2018 - )
  • Associate Editor of OR Spectrum Journal (2021 - )
  • Associate Editor of IMA Journal of Management Mathematics (2019 - )
  • Associate Editor of Frontiers in Future Transportation - Freight Transport and Logistics (2019 - )

Supervisions

Current PhD students

  • First Supervisor, Zhuowu Zhang -  "The role of drivers in green road freight transportation"
  • First Supervisor, Xinyue Hao - "Human and Artificial Intelligence Collaborative Decision-Making in Operations and Supply Chain Management"
  • Second Supervisor, Ruikai Sun - "A Novel Data-driven Framework for Estimating Ship Greenhouse Gas emission in port"
  • First Supervisor, Qiruo Zhang - "Last-mile delivery - Parcel locker systems"
  • First Supervisor,Mengqiao Nie - "Integrated 3DP and Transportation - A simulation-based optimisation"

Visiting PhD student

  •  Ziru Lin - "Optimizing task assignment and routing operations with heterogeneous UAV fleet for emergency healthcare services"

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of:

  • Green logistics
  • Vehicle routing problem
  • Intermodal transportation
  • Autonomous vehicles
  • Impact of 3D printing on transportation
  • Heuristics and metaheuristics methods
  • Artificial Inteligence (AI) and machine learning
  • Human/AI collaborative decision-making
  • AI-driven optimisation techniques 

Current supervision

Zhuowu Zhang

Zhuowu Zhang

Xinyue Hao

Xinyue Hao

Qiruo Zhang

Qiruo Zhang

Mengqiao Nie

Mengqiao Nie

Ziru Lin

Ziru Lin

Contact Details

Email DemirE@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone +44 29208 70971
Campuses Aberconway Building, Floor 2nd, Room C26, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU

Specialisms

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Reinforcement learning
  • Transportation, logistics and supply chains
  • Operational research
  • Production and operations management