Pınar Keskinocak is a Turkish-American

systems engineer Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design, integrate, and manage complex systems over their life cycles. At its core, systems engineering utilizes systems thinking p ...

at the

Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...

, where she is William W. George Chair, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems, and College of Engineering ADVANCE Professor. Her research involves the application of

operations research Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve deci ...

and management science to health care and

supply-chain management In commerce, supply chain management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods and services including all processes that transform raw materials into final products between businesses and locations. This can include the movement and stor ...

. She is the president of

INFORMS The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research (O.R.), management science, and analytics. It was established in 1995 with the merger of ...

Education and career

Keskinocak earned bachelor's and master's degrees in

industrial engineering Industrial engineering is an engineering profession that is concerned with the optimization of complex process (engineering), processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, kno ...

Bilkent University Bilkent University ( tr, Bilkent Üniversitesi) is a private university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by Prof. İhsan Doğramacı in 1984, with the aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research. It is constan ...

in 1991 and 1992, respectively. She completed her Ph.D. at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

, with

Sridhar Tayur Sridhar R. Tayur is an American business professor, entrepreneur, and management thinker. He is university professor of operations management and Ford Distinguished Research Chair at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, and ...

as her doctoral advisor. After postdoctoral research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM, she joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1999.

Service

Keskinocak is the president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for the 2020 term. She was one of the founding editors of the journal ''IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering'' (then called ''IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering''), serving as department editor for healthcare public policy.

Recognition

Keskinocak is a Fellow of

, and the winner of the INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice. She is the 2021 winner of the WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in Operations Research and Management Science.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Keskinocak, Pinar Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American industrial engineers American women engineers American people of Turkish descent Turkish industrial engineers Bilkent University alumni Carnegie Mellon University alumni Georgia Tech faculty Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences