Birce Tezel is a Research Scientist at Meta, with a robust background in industrial engineering and operations research. Birce holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and has gained practical experience through roles such as a Summer Intern at Cadbury, where a VBA-based macro for IT staff performance analysis was developed, and a Core Data Science PhD Intern at Facebook. Previous academic contributions include serving as a Teaching Assistant and Graduate Student Researcher at UC Berkeley, focusing on optimization algorithms and their implementation in C++. Birce's academic journey began at Sabanci University, where a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Industrial Engineering were completed, along with teaching responsibilities for various courses.