Serol Bulkan graduated from the Management Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University in 1986. He obtained his first MSc degree from the same department in 1989, a second MSc degree in Operations Research from Florida Institute of Technology in 1992, and a PhD degree in Industrial Engineering from Cleveland State University in 1999. Dr. Bulkan is a full professor at the Industrial Engineering Department of Marmara University, Turkiye. His research areas are operations research, scheduling theory, metaheuristics, network theory, and production planning.