Applied Mathematics · IIT Chicago
Hi, I'm Alaittin.
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Fifth-year Ph.D. candidate at the Illinois Institute of Technology, working in the Discrete Applied Mathematics Group under the supervision of Hemanshu Kaul. 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
Interactive Tools
I have been developing the following tools as part of the two research projects described in the Research section. A first version of the Chicago Healthcare Accessibility Dashboard is now live. The FalCom Visualizer is coming very soon.
News & Updates
- 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.
- Summer 2023 Awarded the SoReMo Research Fellowship for work on FalCom — a sampling method for districting and hierarchical facility location.
- August 2024 Paper accepted at Graphs and Combinatorics: Coloring of graphs avoiding bicolored paths of a fixed length.
- 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.