Semih Atakan
Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSemih Atakan is a Principal Applied Scientist with eight years of experience applying operations research, stochastic programming, and large-scale optimization to operational and strategic network problems. He has led small teams at Amazon to build research software that informs billion-dollar network decisions and now continues this work at Microsoft. His PhD-trained approach blends mathematical rigor with pragmatic engineering—designing versatile, maintainable models and decomposition algorithms that scale to problems with hundreds of millions of variables and constraints. Semih’s work spans inventory management, transportation scheduling, and simulation, and he has a track record of turning advanced decomposition and stochastic methods into production-ready tools. Colleagues describe him as a scientist who deliberately optimizes for maintainability and impact, enabling small teams to support massive operational value. Based in Seattle, he combines academic depth from USC with hands-on industry delivery across Amazon’s fulfillment and network organizations.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Industrial and Systems Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Industrial Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Industrial Engineering at Sabanci UniversityInternational BaccalaureateTED Ankara Koleji
Turkish, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
USC3DLAB/tamingDuck
Dec 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:307 commits, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 7 months
USC3DLAB/PH-BAB
Mar 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:1 release, 11 commits, 9 pushes in 7 months
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