Sadan Kulturel‐Konak
Penn State Berks
Professor
Sadan Kulturel‐Konak, Ph.D. is a Professor of Management Information Systems and the Director of the Flemming Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development (CEED) Center at Penn State Berks. Dr. Kulturel also holds a courtesy appointment in the Penn State Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Auburn University. Dr. Kulturel’s research focuses on modeling and optimizing complex systems using hybrid approaches that combine heuristic methods with exact techniques from probability and operations research.
Her research focuses on modeling and optimizing complex systems using hybrid approaches that integrate artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and decision analytics with heuristic methods and exact techniques from probability and operations research. Her primary application areas include facility design and food bank logistics and resource distribution aimed at improving efficiency and equity.
Dr. Kulturel is also interested in evidence-based, data-driven pedagogical research in entrepreneurship and STEM fields. She served as the elected president of INFORMS-Women in OR/MS (WORMS), the elected chair of INFORMS- Facility Logistics Special Interest Group, and the elected chair of the ASEE Middle Atlantic Section. She recently served as an academic member of the College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE). She is the Chair-Elect of ASEE Zone I.
She is an Associate Editor of the Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier). She has been a principal investigator on several sponsored projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and VentureWell. She is a member of INFORMS, IISE, and ASEE.