Academic Members

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 associate 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 150 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), Associate Editor of Artificial Intelligence Review (Springer), 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 also been 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 - 2023" list identified by Elsevier BV, Stanford University.