Tevfik Aktekin
Visiting Assistant Research Professor of Decision Sciences
Contact Information:
Funger Hall 415 School of Business
The George Washington University Washington, DC 20052
(202) 994-2736 (fax)
taktekin@gwu.edu (email)
Tevfik began his academic career at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul. He has an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering with a major in manufacturing and a minor in heating/cooling systems. His thesis was on “cooling cycles in plastic molding machines”. Tevfik worked for a French elevator company, Sodimas S.A. in Istanbul for four years as an analyst at the logistics department.
Later on, he got his MBA with a concentration in Decision Making and his Ph.D. in Decision Sciences with a minor in Statistics/OR from the George Washington University. He is currently working as a visiting assistant research professor for the Institute for Integrating Statistics in Decision Sciences.
He is interested in stochastic modeling and bayesian inference with applications in service operations management.
Tevfik is also well known as a die hard fan of the soccer team from Istanbul, Besiktas.
Research Interests:
Bayesian Inference and Stochastic Modeling in service operations management.
Research:
“Call Center Arrival Modeling: A Bayesian State Space Approach” Tevfik Aktekin and Refik Soyer (submitted to Naval Research Logistics).
“Bayesian Analysis of Abandonment in Call Center Operations” Tevfik Aktekin and Refik Soyer (submitted to Manufaturing & Service Operations Management)
“Bayesian Modeling of Queues in Call Centers” Tevfik Aktekin and Refik Soyer (to be submitted to Management Science)
“Bayesian State Space Modeling of Mortgage Default Data” Tevfik Aktekin, Refik Soyer and Feng Xu (working paper)
“Imperfect Debugging in Software Reliability Testing: A Bayesian Perspective,” Tevfik Aktekin and Toros Caglar (working paper)
Courses:
- DNSC 220 - Decision Models (Management Science with Spreadsheet Applications)
- MBAD 202 - Statistical Analysis for Management
- MBAD 231 - Operations Management
- DNSC 202 - Statistics for Managers
- DNSC 202.DE - Statistics for Managers