About
I am a Professor of Operations & Technology at the UCL School of Management. I joined UCL in 2015 after receiving my PhD in Operations Management from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. I also hold an MS in Manufacturing & Operations Management from the Tepper School at Carnegie Mellon University and an MS in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University, and I received my BS degree in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University.
My primary research focuses on innovative businesses, such as online platforms (e.g., crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, e-commerce, hospitality), and their interaction with conventional businesses. I also research innovation sourcing and management, technology in healthcare, supply chain economics, socially responsible operations, and business analytics. I use theoretical, empirical, and experimental methodologies in my research.
My work has been published in world-leading academic journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, as well as practitioner journals such as INTERFACES and Harvard Business Review. It has also been featured in leading news outlets such as the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. I am listed as one of the World’s Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors by Poets and Quants, and I have received numerous awards, such as best dissertation, best working paper, and best paper awards. I am an active member of INFORMS, the MSOM Society, and TIMES, and an associate editor at Management Science.
Recognition
In the press
- Harvard Business Review“Customers Prefer to Crowdfund Products They Can Improve,” 2024
- The Wall Street JournalCoverage of the crowdfunding research, August 2021
- Financial TimesCoverage of the crowdfunding research, May 2021
- UCLA Anderson ReviewCoverage of the crowdfunding research, June 2021; and of research on socially responsible retailers, March 2021
- Poets&QuantsProfile as one of the 2024 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors
- Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of BusinessCoverage of research on supply chain competition, April 2020
Awards and honors
- 20251st prize, POMS China Best Student Paper Competition. Finalist, POMS PITM Student Paper Competition.
- 2024Named one of the World’s Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors by Poets&Quants, with 81 nominations. Honorable mention (3rd prize), POMS CBOM Junior Scholar Paper Competition. £40,000 RCIF research grant (principal investigator).
- 20222nd prize, INFORMS TIMES Best Paper Award, for “Optimal Award Scheme in Innovation Tournaments”.
- 20212nd prize, INFORMS TIMES Best Working Paper Award, for “Product Development in Crowdfunding”.
- 2020M&SOM Meritorious Service Award.
- 2019Highest teaching evaluation among all UCL School of Management faculty (4.98/5.00). Ranked 2nd in student votes for the BSc/MSci Management Science Best Teacher Award (also 2018).
- 20182nd prize, INFORMS TIMES Best Working Paper Award, for “Parallel Innovation Contests”.
- 2017UK Higher Education Academy Fellowship.
- 20161st prize, INFORMS TIMES Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Earlier honors include the William Larimer Mellon Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon (2009–2012). The full list is in the CV.