Murat Tarimcilar
Associate Dean for Graduate Programs
Murat Tarimcilar was named Associate Dean for Graduate Programs in March 2007. He is an Associate Professor of Decision Sciences and has been a faculty member at George Washington University since 1999. Prior to assuming his role as Graduate Programs Dean, he held the position of Chair of the Decision Sciences Department. His areas of expertise include multi-criteria decision models, applications of Operations Research methods in different business settings, Bayesian Decision Analysis and Production Rate Optimization. Dr. Tarimcilar holds an editorial position with INFORMS Transactions on Education.
Dr. Tarimcilar’s current research focuses on business and public sector applications of various decision models. His research has been published in Management Science, Decision Sciences, OR letters, Socio-economic Planning Journal, Annals of Regional Science and The Financial Review. Dr. Tarimcilar’s policy work at the World Bank is also published by The World Bank Policy Research series. He has presented his research at conferences around the world including Greece, Netherlands, Turkey, England, Ireland, Canada, and Japan. His consulting clients include BSA, World Bank, Bose Corporation, Department of Defense, Turkish Finance Ministry, Oscar Meyer, and the Venezuela Health Ministry. He was the founding partner and managing director of GST Associates, a process design and strategy consulting company.
Dr. Tarimcilar, along with colleague Refik Soyer, has started a new research center within the School of Business, the Institute for Integrating Statistics in Decision Sciences (I²SDS). The institute’s mission is to foster the integration of modern statistical methodologies into the decision sciences. The Institute’s research emphasis is on Bayesian thinking and associated computing, probability elicitation, utility assessment and approaches for effective decision making.
Dr. Tarimcilar teaches courses in Managerial Statistics, Operations Management and Decision Models. He has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the Outstanding and Excellent MBA Teaching Award five years in a row.
He earned his PhD in Business Administration and Quantitative Business Analysis, and an M.S. in Quantitative Analysis/Operations Research from Louisiana State University, as well as a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Bogazici University in Turkey.