Dr. Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee
Research Faculty
Dr. Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee obtained a BSc. (2012) and MSc. (2014) in Industrial Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology in Isfahan, Iran. Then, he received a Ph.D. degree (2019) in Industrial Engineering from Mazandaran University of Science and Technology in Babol, Iran. Dr. Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Istinye University in Istanbul, Turkey. Meanwhile, he worked as a Quality Assurance expert in some automotive industries in Iran and went through different relevant training courses like ISO 9001: 2015 and IATF 16949-2016. He has published more than 100 papers in high-quality journals, including IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Expert Systems with Applications, Waste Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Annals of Operations Research, etc. He has been serving as a chair, organizing, committee member as well as a keynote speaker in several prestigious international conferences. Moreover, he is a reviewer in many reputed WoS journals and has been recognized as a Top Peer Reviewer in 2 of the Essential Science Indicators research areas by Clarivate WoS. Dr. Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Fuzzy Systems (IEEE), Editorial Board Member of Facta Universitatis, Series: Mechanical Engineering (University of Niš), Academic Editor of PLOS One (PLOS), Editorial Board Member of Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing (Tech Science Press), Associate Editor of the Journal of Dynamics and Games (AIMS), and Editorial Advisory Board member of Management Decision (Emerald). He has been also serving on the guest editorial board in several journals such as Annals of Operations Research (Springer) and Environmental Science and Pollution Research (Springer). Dr. Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee has been featured among the “World’s Top 2% Researchers/Scientists in 2021 & 2022” list identified by Elsevier BV, Stanford University.
Selected Publications:
1. Görçün, Ö. F., Tirkolaee, E. B., Küçükönder, H., & Garg, C. P. (2024). Assessing and selecting sustainable refrigerated road vehicles in food logistics using a novel multi-criteria group decision-making model. Information Sciences, 661, 120161.
2. Tirkolaee, E. B., Aydin, N. S., & Mahdavi, I. (2023). A bi-level decision-making system to optimize a robust-resilient-sustainable aggregate production planning problem. Expert Systems with Applications, 228, 120476.
3. Khakbaz, A., Mensi, W., Tirkolaee, E. B., Hammoudeh, S., & Simic, V. (2023). The combined effects of interest and inflation rates on inventory systems: A comparative analysis across countries. International Journal of Production Economics, 266, 109035.
4. Tirkolaee, E. B., Torkayesh, A. E., Tavana, M., Goli, A., Simic, V., & Ding, W. (2023). An integrated decision support framework for resilient vaccine supply chain network design. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 126, 106945.
5. Tirkolaee, E. B., & Aydin, N. S. (2022). Integrated design of sustainable supply chain and transportation network using a fuzzy bi-level decision support system for perishable products. Expert Systems with Applications, 195, 116628.
Academic Profiles:
GoogleScholar: https://scholar.google.com.tr/citations?user=-4D9MfAAAAAJ&hl=en
Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57196032874