Biography

Dr. Dursun Delen is the holder of the 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 at OSU 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 a number of decision support, information systems and advanced analytics related research projects funded by federal agencies including DoD, NASA, NIST and DOE.

Dr. Delen has published more than 250 peer-reviewed 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, and Expert Systems with Applications, among others. He recently authored/co-authored eight 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 on topics related to Data/Text Mining, Business Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, Business Analytics, 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 of the Journal of Business Analytics, AI in Business, senior editor for Decision Support Systems and Decision Sciences, associate editor for the Journal of Business Research, Decision Analytics, and International Journal of RF Technologies, and is on the editorial boards of several other academic journals.