Associate Professor Melih Ozlen
Details
Department: School of Science
Campus: City Campus Australia
melih.ozlen@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Melih is an Associate Professor in Operations Research and also serves as Deputy Head of the Department of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences (Academic Operations). He previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Syracuse University and as a lecturer at Hacettepe University before joining RMIT.
He holds PhD, Master, and Bachelor degrees in Industrial Engineering from METU, a Master of Public Administration from the University of Melbourne, and a Graduate Certificate Tertiary Education from RMIT University.
His research spans multi-objective optimisation, mathematical programming, and combinatorial optimisation, with a focus on developing new approaches to solve large-scale problems efficiently. His current interests lie in selective vehicle routing problems arising in practical settings, including home health care, disaster response management, and project and maintenance management.
He is an active reviewer for leading journals including the European Journal of Operational Research and Computers and Operations Research, and serves as a reviewer for the Australian Research Council.
Research fields
- 490108 Operations research
- 490304 Optimisation
UN sustainable development goals
- 3 Good Health and Well Being
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- 13 Climate Action
Supervisor projects
- Optimisation models for home care
- 12 Mar 2026
- Optimisation models for home care
- 22 Jul 2025
- Optimisation models for home care
- 3 Aug 2023
- Algorithms and tools for multi-objective mixed integer programming
- 4 Oct 2022
- Decomposition Approaches for Prioritised Collaborative Vehicle Routing and Scheduling Problems
- 3 Sep 2018
- Optimisation Approaches For an Orienteering Problem with Applications to Wildfire Management.
- 12 Apr 2016
- Exact Travelling Wave Solutions in MHD and Plasma Physics
- 20 Jul 2015
- Meta-Heuristics for Better Constraint Handling and Minimum Cost Flow Problems
- 2 Mar 2015
Teaching interests
Research interests
Operations Research
Combinatorial Optimisation
Mathematical Programming
Multi Objective Optimisation
