M. Murat Tarimcilar
Murat Tarimcilar is Associate Professor of Decision Sciences and Associate Dean of Graduate Programs at the School of Business, George Washington University. Dr. Murat Tarimcilar 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. His early research concentrated on production rate optimization and process control models. His current research focuses on more applied topics such as business and public sector applications of multi-criteria decision models and management decision technologies.
His research has been published in a wide spectrum of 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, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and The Financial Review. Dr. Tarimcilar’s policy work at the World Bank is also published by The World Bank Policy Research series.
Dr. Tarimcilar has extensive consulting experience with a number of private and government organizations. He was a Managing Partner for two years with GST Associates, a consulting company with expertise in business process reengineering and process design. Organizations for which he consulted include Department of Defense, the World Bank, Bose Corporation, Venezuelan Ministry of Health, Turkish Treasury, BSA International. Dr. Tarimcilar mostly teaches Statistics, Operations Management and Decision Models courses. He has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards.
