Birnur Ozbaş

Birnur Ozbaş received her B.S. in Systems Engineering from Yeditepe University, M.S and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Boğaziçi University. After 10 years of academic career, she is currently working as a pharmaceutical consultant. Ozbaş’ expertise is in discrete event simulation, system dynamics, statistical data analysis, market research, risk analysis, transportation systems, and mathematical modeling. She is the author of Simulation of Maritime Transit Traffic: The Case of Strait of Istanbul. She also has written numerous journal papers and one book chapter in this subject area.

5000 Riverdale Road Apt 303
Riverdale
NJ 07457
United States

Email: birnurozbas@gmail.com

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Onur Özgün

Onur Özgün is a postdoctoral research associate in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University, Boston. Dr. Özgün received his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, in 2012. From 2008 to 2012, he was a member of Socio-Economic System Dynamics Lab (SESDYN) in the same university. In prior work, he focused on simulation games, systemic complexity, learning, business cycles, and discrete-event simulation. Currently, he is a member of the Resilient Cities Lab at Northeastern University, where he works on research problems related to urban sustainability and climate change impacts in the socio-economic context.

School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Ave. 310 RP
Boston
MA 02115
United States

Email: onur@onurozgun.com.tr
Web: http://onurozgun.com.tr/

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Yaman Barlas

Yaman Barlas received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering. Upon receiving his Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1985, he joined Miami University of Ohio, department of Systems Analysis, and he was tenured in 1990. He returned to Boğaziçi University in Istanbul in 1993, where he is currently working as a professor of Industrial Engineering and directing SESDYN research laboratory. His interest areas are validation of simulation models, system dynamics, modeling/analysis of socio-economic problems and simulation as a learning/training platform. Prof. Barlas teaches simulation, system dynamics, dynamics of socio-economic systems and dynamic systems modeling.

Industrial Engineering Department
Boğaziçi University
34342 Bebek
Istanbul
Turkey

Email: ybarlas@boun.edu.tr
Web: http://www.ie.boun.edu.tr/~barlas/