Dundar Kocaoglu is Professor and Chairman of the Engineering and Technology Management Department at Portland State University, and President and CEO of PICMET (Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology).

His research areas include technology management, project management, R&D management, decision theory, hierarchical decision modeling, evaluation and selection of emerging technologies, and resource optimization. Dr. Kocaoglu’s degrees are BSCE from Robert College, MSCE from Lehigh University, MSIE from the University of Pittsburgh, and PhD in OR and Systems Management also from the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author, co-author and editor of seven books and more than forty journal articles. He served as the editor of Wiley Book Series on Engineering and Technology Management for 13 years, and IEEE Transactions on Engineerng Management for 16 years.

Dr. Kocaoglu has received numerous awards including IEEE Fellow, IEEE Centennial Medal, IEEE Millennium Medal, and Distinguished Resesrch Mentor Award of the National Science Council of Taiwan. He is listed in several “Who is Who” publications.