Rector

Barış Tan received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Boğaziçi University in 1990. He continued his studies at the University of Florida and earned his M.E. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering in 1991, M.S.E. Graduate Certificate in Manufacturing Systems in 1993, and Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering in 1994.

Upon completing his Ph.D., Dr. Barış Tan joined Koç University. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1998 and Professor in 2002. While at Koç, he served as a professor of Business Administration and Industrial Engineering from 1994 to 2024. During this period, he served as Director of the Graduate School of Business (2002-2005, 2008-2010), Dean of the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics (2007-2013), and Vice President of Academic Affairs (2013-2021). On March 1, 2024, he joined Özyeğin University as a professor of Industrial Engineering and Business Administration. He was appointed as President on July 25, 2024.

His areas of expertise include the design and control of production systems, supply chain management, and stochastic modelling. Prof. Tan has an extensive body of work, with numerous international publications in these fields. He has served as an area editor and on editorial boards of various international journals. Prof. Tan is also actively engaged in national and international research and industry projects. He has earned recognition for his body of work by being the recipient of the Turkish Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scholar Award, the TUBITAK fellowship, the NATO Science Fellowship, as well as multiple best paper awards for his publications.

Prof. Barış Tan has also held visiting faculty positions at multiple universities worldwide, including the Harvard University Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the MIT Operations Research Center, and the MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity, the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, the University College London School of Management, and the Politecnico di Milano Laboratory for Manufacturing and Production Systems.

Prof. Tan has served and continues to contribute to advisory and management boards of various universities and institutions.