Kazim Topuz
J Bradley Oxley Endowed Chair @The University Of Tulsa Collins College Of Business
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WORK HISTORY
J Bradley Oxley Endowed Chair @The University Of Tulsa Collins College Of Business
Tulsa, OK, US
Also serve as Associate Professor of Operations Management & Business Analytics and Director of the MSBA Program
EDUCATION
Wichita State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Industrial and manufacturing engineering
Rutgers University
Master of Science - MS, Industrial Engineering
Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi
Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering
Lehigh University
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Information and Systems Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT KAZIM TOPUZ
Kazim Topuz is an Associate Professor of Business Analytics and Operations Management at the Collins College of Business at The University of Tulsa. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering with a dissertation on Data Mining Applications in Healthcare from Wichita State University and master’s degrees in Information Systems Engineering from Lehigh University and Industrial and Systems Engineering from Rutgers University. His work focuses on designing probabilistic graphical models, including Bayesian Belief Networks and Markov Networks, integrated with data mining techniques for data-driven decisions. His current research passion is explainable AI and its applications in healthcare, accident severity, student retention, and mental health. Topuz\'s work has been published in journals like the European Journal of Operational Research, Decision Support Systems (DSS), OMEGA, Annals of Operations Research (ANOR), Journal of Business Research, Information Systems Frontiers, and Journal of Management Information Systems. He is a member of INFORMS, Decision Science Institute, American Medical Informatics Association, and Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). He served as a special issue editor for DSS on “Explainable AI for Enhanced Decision Making” and for ANOR on “Interpretable Machine Learning.” His awards include the 2023 IISE Gold Award, 2022 Mayo Research Excellence Award, 20••••22 Chapman Professorship Award, and Faculty Development Summer Fellowship (20••••22) at The University of Tulsa.
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