Gülay Doğu Barbarosoğlu is a Turkish industrial engineer and academic administrator who served as rector of

Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi University (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Boğaziçi Üniversitesi''), also known as Bosphorus University, is a Public university, public research university in Istanbul, Turkey, historically tied to a former American educational insti ...

Education

Barbarosoğlu graduated from

Robert College The American Robert College of Istanbul ( or ), often abbreviated as Robert or RC, is a Selective school, highly selective, Independent school, independent, mixed-sex education, co-educational, Education in Turkey#Private schools, private Second ...

in 1974. She earned a bachelor's degree (1978) and a PhD (1985) in industrial engineering at

Career

In 2000, Barbarosoğlu was promoted to full professor of industrial engineering at Boğaziçi University. She taught courses in

mathematical optimization Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled ''optimisation'') or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criteria, from some set of available alternatives. It is generally divided into two subfiel ...

logistics Logistics is the part of supply chain management that deals with the efficient forward and reverse flow of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the Consumption (economics), point of consumption according to the ...

, operations, and

decision-making In psychology, decision-making (also spelled decision making and decisionmaking) is regarded as the Cognition, cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several possible alternative options. It could be ...

. Barbarosoğlu was vice rector of research in Boğaziçi from 2008 to 2012. From 2012 to 2016, she served as rector of Boğaziçi University. Barbarosoğlu retired from academia in 2016. She was succeeded by .

References

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