CANAN ULU McDonough School of Business, Tel.: (202) 687 6438 Georgetown University, canan.ulu@georgetown.edu Operations and Information Management Area, http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/cu50/ Washington, D.C. 20057. Research Interests Stochastic dynamic programming: Bayesian learning in sequential decision problems applied to technology adoption and product variety management. Multicriteria decision making: Decision support systems for making decisions under multiple criteria. Decision analytic modeling: Improving decision analysis methods using behavioral decision theory. Academic Experience 2013-present Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business, Washington, D.C. Assistant Professor, Operations and Information Management Area. 2007-2013 University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business, Austin, TX. Education Assistant Professor, Information, Risk and Operations Management Department. 2001-2007 Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, Durham, NC. Ph.D. in Business Administration, Decision Sciences Area, May 2007. Dissertation: Dynamic Programming Models of Technology Adoption and Use. Advisor: James E. Smith. Reading Committee: Fernando Bernstein, Laura J. Kornish, Serhan Ziya. 1998-2000 Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. M.S. in Industrial Engineering. M.S. Thesis: An Interactive Procedure for Selecting Acceptable Alternatives in the Presence of Multiple Criteria. Advisor: Murat Koksalan. 1994-1998 Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. B.S. in Industrial Engineering.
Canan Ulu 2 Publications Ulu, Canan, and Murat Koksalan (2014). An Interactive Approach to Multicriteria Sorting for Quasiconcave Value Functions, Naval Research Logistics, 61(6), 427-488. Ulu, Canan, Dorothee Honhon, and Aydin Alptekinoglu (2012). Learning Consumer Tastes through Dynamic Assortments, Operations Research, 60(4), 833-849. Smith, James E., and Canan Ulu (2012). Technology Adoption with Uncertain Future Costs and Quality, Operations Research, 60(2), 262-274. Ulu, Canan, and James E. Smith (2009). Uncertainty, Information Acquisition and Technology Adoption, Operations Research, 57(3), 740-752. Clemen, Robert T., and Canan Ulu (2008). Interior Additivity and Subjective Probability Assessment of Continuous Variables, Management Science, 54(4), 835-851. Malkoc, Selin A., Gal Zauberman, and Canan Ulu (2005). Consuming now or later? The interactive effect of timing and attribute alignability, Psychological Science, 16(5), 411-417. Koksalan, Murat, and Canan Ulu (2003). An interactive approach for placing alternatives in preference classes, European Journal of Operational Research, 144(2), 429-439. Ulu, Canan, and Murat Koksalan (2001). An interactive procedure for selecting acceptable alternatives in the presence of multiple criteria, Naval Research Logistics, 48(7), 592-606. Completed Research under Review or Revision Smith, James E. and Canan Ulu(2015). Risk Aversion, Information Acquisition and Technology Adoption, revise and resubmit, Operations Research. Ulu, Canan and Dorothee Honhon (2015). Learning Consumer Tastes from Dynamic Assortments: A Nonparametric Bayesian Model, under review, Operations Research. Working Papers Kadiyala, Bharadwaj, Dorothee Honhon and Canan Ulu (2015). Learning from Clickstream Data, completed paper. Alptekinoglu, Aydin, Dorothee Honhon and Canan Ulu (2013). Positioning and Pricing of Horizontally Differentiated Products, completed paper. Research in Progress Shively, Tom and Canan Ulu (2015). A Bayesian Model for the Multicriteria Sorting Problem. Vorotyntseva, Yulia, Dorothee Honhon and Canan Ulu (2015). Tell Me What I Want: A Study of Dynamic Assortment Planning with Learning Consumers.
Canan Ulu 3 Hyndman, Kyle, Dorothee Honhon and Canan Ulu (2015). Learning with Censored Information. Agrawal, Vishal, Volodymyr Babich and Canan Ulu (2015). Community Supported Agriculture. Teaching Experience Georgetown University Analytical Problem Solving, McDonough School of Business - MBA Program (Spring 2015) Management Science, McDonough School of Business - Undergraduate Program (Spring 2014). University of Texas at Austin Business Analytics and Decision Modeling, McCombs School of Business - MBA program (Spring 2011, 2013). Recipient of MBA Applause Award for excellence in teaching, 2011. Elementary Business Statistics, McCombs School of Business - Undergraduate Program (Fall 2007, Spring 2009 - Honors, Fall 2009 - Honors, Spring 2011, Spring 2012). Duke University Decision Models, Visiting Instructor, Master of Engineering Management Program, Pratt School of Engineering (Fall 2006). Decision Making in Business, Visiting Instructor, Economics Department (Fall 2006). Honors and Awards Management Science Meritorious Service Award, 2015. Invited to present at Best of Women in OR\MS session sponsored by WORMS at INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, November 2014. McCombs Research Excellence Grant for the project Utilizing Multiple Information Sources: How do individuals resolve the cost vs precision trade-off?, 2011-2013. 2007 Decision Analysis Society Student Paper Award for Uncertainty, Information Acquisition and Technology Adoption (co-authored with James E. Smith) Participant in the Future Academician Colloquium, INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November, 2005. Offered the Fulbright Scholarship for Ph.D. study, 2001. First Place in Student Paper Competition, 19 th National IE and OR Conference, Turkey, 1998.
Canan Ulu 4 Professional Experience Senior Editor, Production and Operations Management, 2014-present. Associate Editor, IIE Transactions, Decision Analysis Area, 2013-present. Editorial Board Member, Decision Analysis Journal, 2011-present. Board Member, Section on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, INFORMS, 2015-present. Co-chair, Decision Analysis Society Student Publication Award, 2015. Council Member, Decision Analysis Society, 2010-2013. Co-Chair, Decision Analysis Cluster, INFORMS Conference, 2011-2012. Co-Chair, Decision Analysis Cluster, Alio-INFORMS Joint International Meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June, 2010. Judge, POM Supply Chain Student Paper Competition, 2014. Decision Analysis Society Publication Award, 2013 Decision Analysis Society Student Paper Competition, 2010. Reviewer (since 2007) for Operations Research, Management Science, Decision Analysis, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, IIE Transactions, Operations Research Letters, Journal of Computing, MIS Quarterly and Decision Support Systems. Member, Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), Decision Analysis Society (DAS), Section on Multiple Criteria Decision Making at INFORMS, Forum for Women in OR/MS of INFORMS (WORMS). Invited Seminars Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, March 2015, Risk Aversion, Information Acquisition and Technology Adoption. Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, January 2015, Risk Aversion, Information Acquisition and Technology Adoption. Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, November 2012, Learning Consumer Tastes: A Nonparametric Bayesian Model. Dell - ORIE Seminar Series, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, April, 2010, Learning Consumer Tastes through Dynamic Assortments. Zaragoza Logistics Center, Zaragoza, Spain, July, 2008, Repeat Purchase Decisions in Technology Adoption.
Canan Ulu 5 Conference Presentations Assortment Planning with Learning Consumers INFORMS Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 2015. (Invited). Risk Aversion, Information Acquisition and Technology Adoption Advances in Decision Analysis Conference, Washington, DC, June 2014. (Refereed). INFORMS Conference, San Francisco, CA, November 2014. (Invited). An Interactive Bayesian Method to Sort Alternatives into Preference Categories INFORMS Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 2013. (DAS sponsored session). Positioning and Pricing of Horizontally Differentiated Products 35 th ISMS Marketing Science Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2013. Learning Consumer Tastes: A Nonparametric Bayesian Model INFORMS Conference, Phoenix, AZ, October, 2012. (Invited). P&OM World Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2012. (Refereed). Annual POMS Conference, Chicago, IL, April, 2012. (Invited). INFORMS Conference, Charlotte, NC, November, 2011. (Invited). Learning Consumer Tastes through Dynamic Assortments. INFORMS Conference, San Francisco, CA, November 2014. (Invited). Annual POMS Conference, Reno, NV, May, 2011. (Invited). INFORMS Conference, Austin, TX, November, 2010. (Invited). Information Gathering through Different Channels in Newsvendor Problems. ALIO-INFORMS Joint International Meeting, Buenos Aires, June, 2010. (DAS sponsored session). INFORMS Conference, San Diego, CA, October, 2009. (DAS sponsored session). Repeat Purchase Decisions in Technology Adoption. INFORMS Conference, Washington, D.C., October, 2008. (DAS sponsored session). FUR XIII International Conference, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2008. (Refereed). INFORMS Conference, Seattle, WA, November, 2007. (Invited). INFORMS International Conference, Puerto Rico, July, 2007. (DAS sponsored session). Uncertainty, Information Acquisition and Technology Adoption. INFORMS Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November, 2006. (Invited). INFORMS Conference, San Francisco, CA, November, 2005. (Invited).
Canan Ulu 6 Policies for Flexible Production Systems. INFORMS Conference, Denver, CO, October, 2004. (Invited). Interior Additivity and Subjective Probabilities. Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, November 2004. (Refereed). EURO/INFORMS International Joint Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2003. INFORMS Conference, San Jose, CA, November 2002. (Invited).