Murat Tarimcilar
Professor and Chair of the Decision Sciences Department, School of Business of the George Washington University
Murat Tarimcilar is a professor and Chair of the Decision Sciences Department at the School of Business of the George Washington University.
His research focuses on production rate optimization, process control models, and Bayesian decision analysis. His work has been published in policy and business journals such as Management Science, Decision Sciences, OR Letters, Socio-economic Planning Journal, Annals of Regional Science, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and The Financial Review.
Dr. Tarimcilar previously served as Deputy Dean and Dean of Programs and Education at the George Washington University between 2008 and 2015, as well as president of TED University in Ankara, Turkey, from 2015 to 2017. His consulting experience spans private and government organizations such as the US Department of Defense, the World Bank, Bose Corporation, the Venezuelan Ministry of Health, the Turkish Treasury, and BSA International. Additionally, he founded and served as Managing Partner of GST Associates, a consulting company with expertise in business process reengineering and process design.
He received his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Bogazici University in Turkey and master’s and doctoral degrees in quantitative business analysis from Louisiana State University.