Applied Mathematics · NYU Grossman (CSTAR)
Hi, I'm Alaittin.
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I recently completed my Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in the Discrete Applied Mathematics Group under the supervision of Hemanshu Kaul, and will join NYU Grossman School of Medicine (CSTAR) as a Research Scientist working on organ allocation optimization. Previously, I was a master's student at Hacettepe University, working on graph colorings under the supervision of Lale Özkahya. My research spans graph theory, combinatorial optimization, and computational methods for real-world structured problems.
Open to collaboration & consulting
News & Updates
- May 2026 Talk at ISCO 2026 in Kusadasi, Turkey.
- May 2026 Invited talk at Middle East Technical University, Industrial Engineering Departmental Seminars.
- March 2026 Launched the Chicago Healthcare Accessibility Dashboard (v1) — an interactive map of 839 healthcare facilities, 33 community health indicators, and multi-level geographic boundaries across Chicago. Optimization module coming next.
- August 2024 Paper accepted at Graphs and Combinatorics: Coloring of graphs avoiding bicolored paths of a fixed length.
- Summer 2023 Awarded the SoReMo Research Fellowship for work on FalCom — a sampling method for districting and hierarchical facility location.
- Summer 2022 Research internship at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, working on the Exa.TrkX project for particle trajectory reconstruction.
- August 2021 Joined the Discrete Applied Mathematics Group at Illinois Institute of Technology.