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Baris Ata

Baris Ata

Donald P. Jacobs Scholar

Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences

Ph.D. Operations, Information and Technology 2003, M.A. Business Research 2000, M.S. Statistics 2002, M.S. Mathematics 2001, M.S. Engineering Economic Systems and Operations Research 1999, Stanford University; B.S. Industrial Engineering, 1997, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

 
Academic Positions Held
 

Kellogg School of Management, 2003-Present.
Donald P. Jacobs Scholar

   
Courses / Topics Taught
 

OPNS 430 Course Site
OPNS 438 Course Site
OPNS 454 Course Site

   
Professional Leadership
  McKinsey & Co, 2001
   
Research Areas
  Dynamic control of manufacturing systems and communication networks: Heavy traffic approximations, Brownian and fluid network models, discrete-review policies, and analysis of asymptotic performance; Power Control in Wireless Communication; Revenue management.
   
Representative Publications
  Heavy traffic analysis of open processing networks with complete resource pooling: Asymptotic optimality of discrete review policies. To appear in Annals of Applied Probability (with S. Kumar).

Drift rate control of a Brownian processing system, To appear in Annals of Applied Probability (with J.M. Harrison and L.A. Shepp).

Dynamic power control in a wireless static channel subject to a quality of service constraint. To appear in Operations Research.

   
General / Consulting
  Referee for M&SOM, Management Science, Operations Research, Mathematics of Operations Research, Annals of Applied Probability.
  last modified 08/10//2004
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