Baris Ata

Associate Professor

Kellogg School of Management

Baris Ata is the Ford Foundation Visiting Research Associate Professor of Operations Management at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, and Associate Professor of Operations Management at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He also serves as the Chief Scientist for the start up OrganJet. He received the B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University (TURKEY) in 1997, and MS degrees in Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research (1999), Business Research (2000), Mathematics (2001), and Statistics (2002) and a Ph.D. in Operations, Information, and Technology (2003) from Stanford University. He worked for McKinsey & Co. (2001) and has held visiting scholar positions at Georgia Institute of Technology (2007), New York University (2010), and Stanford University (2010).

His research interests include analytical and empirical study of delivery of healthcare services, sustainability, revenue management, dynamic capacity management in manufacturing and service operations management.

Dr. Ata serves as an Associate Editor for Operations Research, Management Science, Mathematics of Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Surveys in ORMS, and IIE Transactions in Healthcare Systems Engineering. He is the co-recipient of the 2009 INFORMS best paper in service science award. He founded the Operations Management Ph.D. Program at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and served as its director during 2007-2012.

email: b-ata at kellogg dot northwestern dot edu
phone: 847-491-7236