Bilge is an assistant professor in the Department of Maritime and Transport Technology, Transport Engineering and Logistics section. Her research interests lie at the intersection of optimization and behavioral models with applications to transportation systems. More specifically she is interested in improving the efficiency, robustness and sustainability of transportation and logistics by developing predictive models that incorporate the preferences of decision makers. Example applications include on-demand transportation, intermodal freight transportation and transportation over water. Prior to joining TU Delft, Bilge worked first as a postdoctoral associate and then as a research scientist at MIT, with Prof. Moshe Ben-Akiva in the ITS Lab. She managed research projects in the areas of real-time optimization, travel behavior and choice-based optimization. She received her PhD from EPFL in 2013. Her major is in Industrial Engineering with BSc and MSc degrees from Bogazici University, Istanbul in 2007 and 2009 respectively.