DURSUN DELEN

Biography

Dr. Dursun Delen is the holder of William S. Spears Endowed Chair in Business Administration, Patterson Family Endowed Chair in Business Analytics, Director of Research for the Center for Health Systems Innovation, and Regents Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University (OSU). He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management from OSU in 1997.
Prior to his appointment as an Assistant Professor in 2001, he worked for a privately-owned research and consultancy company, Knowledge Based Systems Inc., in College Station, Texas, as a research scientist for five years, during which he led several decision support, information systems and advanced analytics research projects funded by corporations, organizations, and federal agencies including DoD, NASA, NIST and DoE.
Dr. Delen has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles. His research has appeared in major journals including Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Communications of the ACM, Computers and Operations Research, Computers in Industry, Journal of Production Operations Management, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, among others. He recently authored/co-authored ten books/textbooks in the broad areas of Business Analytics, Decision Support Systems, Data/Text Mining, and Business Intelligence.
Dr. Delen is often invited to national and international conferences for keynote addresses, and companies and organizations for executive teaching and consultancy engagements on topics related to Business Analytics / Data Science, Data/Text Mining, Business Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, and Knowledge Management. He served as the general co-chair for the 4th International Conference on Network Computing and Advanced Information Management in Soul, South Korea, and regularly chairs tracks and mini-tracks at various business analytics and information systems conferences.
Dr. Delen is the editor-in-chief for the Journal of Business Analytics and AI in Business, senior editor for Decision Support Systems and Decision Sciences, area editor for Big Data and Business Analytics for Journal of Business Research, associate editor for Decision Analytics and International Journal of RF Technologies, and is on the editorial boards of several other academic journals. He has received Fulbright Scholar, NIH Data Science Mentor Awards, along with several other prestigious research and teaching recognitions including President's Outstanding Faculty Research Award, Regents' Distinguished Teaching Award, Regents' Distinguished Research Award, and Greiner Teaching Award.