Anil Omer Saritac

• Programme: PhD in Management Science and Operations

MS and BS in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

Omer is a PhD student in the department of Management Science and Operations at London Business School. His research interests are at the interface of machine learning and operations; specifically on application of online learning algorithms in an operations context.
Prior to his PhD studies, Omer received BSc and MSc degrees in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University. He worked as a Data Scientist at a retail analytics firm based in Istanbul, where he worked on an assortment optimization project for a large US retailer. Their assortment decisions were implemented in ~300 stores in US.

Besides its academic interests, he plays the guitar and the ukulele, and is an amateur chess player.