Erhan Kutanoglu
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Phone: (512) 472-7194
Fax: (512) 232- 1489
Email: erhank@mail.utexas.edu
Dr.
Kutanoglu’s Web site
Dr. Erhan Kutanoglu earned his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Lehigh
University in Pennsylvania in 1999. He joined the faculty of The University of
Texas at Austin in 2002. He received a Faculty Early Career Development Award
from the National Science Foundation that same year.
Dr. Kutanoglu specializes in applied operations research regarding manufacturing
and service logistics and supply chain management. He develops solutions to
service logistical problems where repairing, recycling and stocking of parts
provides after-market service to geographically-dispersed customers. This
research allows manufacturing companies and the U.S. military to achieve cost
savings through better decision-making in warehousing and distribution, which
increases overall service readiness and minimizes costs. He is also
collaborating with other college professors to streamline semiconductor
manufacturing. The manufacturing time (or “cycle time”) for semiconductor wafers
is typically about 10 to 12 weeks, but they only require 2 weeks to actually
process. Kutanoglu’s goal is to reduce disruptions of overall plant performance
by developing models for them. To develop his models, he uses mathematical
modeling as well as game theory. He hopes to develop a unifying theoretical
framework that encompasses both fields and connect the system-level optimization
with the distributed decision structure.
Research interests:
- Applied operations research
- Supply chain management
- Manufacturing and transportation logistics
- Game theoretic and distributed mechanisms (e-commerce and auctions)