Oguzhan Alagoz
Assistant
Professor
Oguzhan Alagoz is currently an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 2004. His research interests include operations research, stochastic optimization, medical decision making, completely and partially observable Markov decision processes, computer simulation, clinical risk-prediction models, and scheduling. His works have appeared in journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, IIE Transactions, Medical Decision Making, Radiology, Cancer, Radiographics, and European Journal of Operational Research. His research is funded by NSF and National Cancer Institute of NIH.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, August 2005-present
Director, UW-Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Simulation Center, October 2008- present
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences, August 2008-present
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Operations, August 2004-June
2005
Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, OH
Teaching/Research Assistant, August 2000-August 2004
University of
Pittsburgh, Department of Industrial Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA.
Teaching/Research Assistant, September 1999-July 2000
Middle East Technical University, Department of Industrial Engineering, Ankara, Turkey.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, August 2004
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Dissertation Title: "Optimal Policies for the Acceptance of Living- and Cadaveric-Donor Livers"
- M.S. in Industrial Engineering, July 2000
Department of Industrial Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
Thesis Title: "Rescheduling under Machine Disruptions"
- B.S. in Industrial Engineering, June 1997
Department of Industrial Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
HONORS AND AWARDS
- NSF CAREER Award, 2009.
- INFORMS Service Science Section best paper competition, 1st place, 2009.
- INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) best paper competition, 2nd
place, 2008.
- INFORMS George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention, 2005.
Granted full financial support for the B.S. program of the Industrial
Engineering Department of Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 1993-1997.
- Participant of the 2003 Institute for Operations Research and Management
Sciences (INFORMS) Doctoral Colloqium.
- Participant of the 2004 Institute for Industrial Engineers (IIE) Doctoral
Colloqium.
- Participant of Young Researcher Roundtable, INFORMS Conference on O.R.
Practice, 2006
- Supervised research of Jagpreet Chhatwal who won the 2008 Best Student
Paper Award of the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS, 2008 Best Student
Paper Award of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society of
INFORMS, and INFORMS 2007 Best Poster Award.
- Supervised Jagpreet Chhatwal's dissertation that received INFORMS George
B. Dantzig Dissertation 2nd place Award, 2009.
- Paul Carbone Prize for Best Poster in Cancer Control during 2nd Annual UW
Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center (UWCCC) Research Retreat in 2008.
- Editorial Board Member of Medical Decision Making (2009-present).