Canan Uckun-Adelman, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor
Assistant Department Head
Department of Information and Decision Sciences
Contact
Building & Room:
UH 2405
Address:
601 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607
Email:
About
Dr. Canan Adelman (Uçkun) is a Clinical Associate Professor of Operations Management in the Department of Information and Decision Sciences (IDS) at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Business Administration. She joined UIC as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2018 and was appointed to her clinical faculty role in August 2021. Dr. Adelman also serves the university community as an elected UIC Honors College Faculty Fellow.
Dr. Adelman’s research and teaching focus heavily on the optimization of energy systems, sustainability, business analytics, and advanced operations management. Prior to her full-time career in academia, she spent nearly a decade as a research scientist and engineering systems modeler at Argonne National Laboratory's Center for Energy, Environmental, and Economic Systems Analysis (CEEESA). During her tenure at Argonne, she spearheaded and collaborated on major grid-level energy storage projects—including an $850K LDRD award—and developed advanced mathematical formulations for wind power uncertainty, hydroelectric systems, and electric vehicle demand response.
Her academic research has been published in premier peer-reviewed journals such as Operations Research, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, and the Journal of Power Sources. She regularly serves as an expert referee for flagship quantitative journals, including Management Science and the INFORMS Journal on Computing. Dr. Adelman has previously held teaching appointments at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Loyola University Chicago's Quinlan School of Business.
Dr. Adelman earned both her Ph.D. in Management Science/Operations Management and her MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She holds an M.S. and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Koç University and Marmara University in Turkey, respectively.
Selected Publications
“Dynamic Electricity Pricing to Smart Homes,” D. Adelman, C. Uckun, Operations Research, 67(6), pp. 1520-1542, 2019.
“Energy Storage Arbitrage under Day-Ahead and Real-Time Price Uncertainty,” D. Krishnamurthy, C. Uckun, Z. Zhou, P. Thimmapuram and A. Botterud. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2017.
“Enhanced Representations of Lithium-ion Batteries in Power Systems Models and Their Effect on the Valuation of Energy Arbitrage Applications,” A. Sakti, K. G. Gallagher, N. Sepulveda, C. Uckun, C. Vergara, , F. J. Sisternes, D. W. Dees and A. Botterud. Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 342, pp. 279-291, 2017.
“Flexible Operation of Batteries in Power System Scheduling with Renewable Energy,” N. Li, C. Uckun, E. Constantinescu, J. Birge, K. W. Hedman and A. Botterud. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 7(2), pp. 685-696, 2015.
“An Improved Stochastic Unit Commitment Formulation to Accommodate Wind Uncertainty,” C. Uckun, A. Botterud and J. Birge. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 31(4), pp. 2507-2517, 2015.
“Patterns of Electric Vehicle Charging with Time of Use Rates: Case studies in California and Portland,” M. Biviji, C. Uckun, G. Bassett, J. Wang, and D. Ton. IEEE Power and Energy Society, Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference 2014.
Notable Honors
2010 - 2011, Eugene F. Fama Ph.D. Fellowship, University of Chicago
2010, TA Award for Exceptional Service to the EMBA Program (Singapore, London), University of Chicago
2009 - 2010, Katherine Dusak Miller Fellowship, University of Chicago
2004 - 2006, Vehbi Koc Scholarship, Koc University
Education
PhD in Management Science/Operations Management, University of Chicago
Master of Business Administration- University of Chicago
Master of Science in Industrial Engineering- Koc University
Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering- Marmara University