Mirel
Yavuz

Mirel Yavuz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Operations, Information and Technology at IESE Business School. She received her PhD in 2024 from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and holds a B.S. and a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University.

Mirel’s research interests lie in the intersection of sustainable operations, multiple objective decision-making, optimization and behavioral operations management. Her passion revolves around developing optimization-based interactive algorithms that aim to aid in decisions addressing matters of social and environmental responsibility. She also has a keen interest in delving into the decision-making processes that underlie trade-offs in these contexts, including through experimental exploration.