Awards and Honors
Research
Robert H. Smith School Internal Research Grant, 2025, “Optimizing Human-AI Collaboration: Expert Interpretation of AI Results and Approaches for Accuracy and Efficiency” (with Xiaojia Gao and Jiaxuan Sun).
University of Maryland Recognition of Research Excellence, 2020.
Winner, M&SOM iFORM Best Published Paper Award, 2019, “Buyer Intermediation in Supplier Finance” (coauthored with Weiming Zhu).
Keynote Speaker, Symposium on Innovative Business Models in the Digital Economy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, August 2018.
Advisor to M&SOM Student Paper Competition Finalist, 2016, “Buyer Intermediation in Supplier Finance” (coauthored with Ph.D. student Weiming Zhu).
Advisor to POMS Supply Chain Management Student Paper Competition Winner, 2016, “Buyer Intermediation in Supplier Finance” (coauthored with Ph.D. student Weiming Zhu).
Honorable Mention, Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE) Best Paper Award (sponsored by the Chasen Center at Columbia University), 2015, “Buyer Intermediation in Supplier Finance” (coauthored with Weiming Zhu).
Management Science Best Published IS Paper Award Finalist, 2014, “Who Should Be Responsible for Software Security? A Comparative Analysis of Liability Policies in Network Environments.” (with Terrence August).
M&SOM Best Published Paper Award Finalist, 2009, “Supply Auctions and Relational Contracts for Procurement” (with Stefanos A. Zenios).
Coauthor of 2007 M&SOM Student Paper Competition Finalist paper (honorable mention), “Towards a Unified Theory of Procurement Contract Design: Production Flexibility, Spot Market Trading and Contract Structure” (with Pamela Pen-Erh Pei and David Simchi-Levi).
Invited speaker in Eighth Annual Forum on Financial Information Systems and Cybersecurity: A Public Policy Perspective, January 2012.
Invited field speaker on Operations-Finance Interface, Kellogg Operations Workshop, September 2010.
NET (Networks, Electronic Commerce and Telecommunications) Institute Research Grant, 2004, “Information Aggregation and Liquidity in Electronic Markets for Procurement”.
Stanford University GSB, CEBC Research Grant, 2004, “Internet Security and Incentives with Multiple Decision Makers.”
Moghadam Family Faculty Fellow for 2005-2006, GSB, Stanford University.
Teaching
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Full Time MBA Most Effective Core Professor Award, 2025.
William D. Bradford Spirit of Excellence Award from Black MBA and Latin MBA Student Associations, 2024.
Full Time MBA Most Effective Core Professor Award, 2024.
Distinguished Teaching Award, 2024.
Full Time MBA Most Effective Core Professor Award, 2023.
Distinguished Teaching Award, 2023.
Distinguished Teaching Award, 2020.
Allen J. Krowe Teaching Excellence Award, 2019.
Distinguished Teaching Award, 2019.
Distinguished Teaching Award, 2018.
Distinguished Teaching Award, 2017.
Distinguished Teaching Award, 2016.
Distinguished Teaching Award, 2015.
Allen J. Krowe Teaching Excellence Award, 2014.
Selected by the Smith School DC MBA students as favorite professor, 2014.
Robert H. Smith School of Business, Top 15% Teaching Award, 2014 (in both core and non-core categories).
Robert H. Smith School of Business, Top 15% MBA Core Teaching Award, 2013.
Stanford GSB
Highest instructor evaluation score among core courses, Winter 2008.
Other
INFORMS Doctoral Colloquium, 1999.
Robert K. Jaedicke Award for outstanding performance at Stanford University Graduate School of Business Ph.D. Program, (two times) 1997-1998 and 1998-1999.
W. E. Simon Graduate School of Business fellowship for outstanding performance in quantitative methods core examination, 1995-96.
Koc Scholar, Bogazici University, 1991-1994.
Member of Turkish National Mathematical Olympiad Team in 31st International Mathematical Olympiad, Beijing, China, July 1990.
Second place in National Mathematical Olympiad Selections, Turkey, 1990.
Is Bank National Scholar, Turkey, 1990.
Lioness Scholar, 1990.
First place in National Mathematical Olympiad Selections, Turkey, 1989.