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University Executive Board

University Executive Board

Prof. Dr. Barış TAN
Prof. Dr. Barış TAN
President

Barış Tan received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Boğaziçi University. He earned his M.E. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering, M.S.E. Graduate Certificate in Manufacturing Systems, and Ph.D. in Operations Research at the University of Florida. From 1994 to 2024, he served as a professor of Business Administration and Industrial Engineering, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, and Director of the Graduate School of Business at Koç University. On March 1, 2024, he joined Özyeğin University as a professor of Industrial Engineering and Business Administration. He was appointed as President on July 26, 2024. His areas of expertise include the design and control of production systems, supply chain management, and stochastic modelling. Prof. Tan has numerous publications and projects in these fields. Barış Tan is the recipient of the Turkish Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scholar Award, the TUBITAK fellowship, the NATO Science Fellowship, as well as best paper awards for his publications. Prof. Tan has served as a visiting faculty member at Harvard MIT, University of Cambridge, University College London, and Politecnico di Milano. He continues to contribute to advisory and management boards of various universities and institutions around the world.

Tanju Erdem
Prof. Dr. A. Tanju ERDEM
Deputy Dean of The Faculty of Applied Sciences

A. Tanju Erdem received a B.S. degree in electrical and electronics engineering and a B.S. degree in physics in 1986 from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. He received an M.S. degree in 1988 and a Ph.D. degree in 1990, both in electrical engineering, from University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA. He was a member of the Research Laboratories of Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York, USA, from 1990 to 1998, where he worked on various aspects of image and video processing. He has co-founded, and served until 2009 as the CTO, of Momentum, A.S., a 3D digital media technologies company established in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1998. He has served on the ISO-MPEG committee from 1991 to 1998. He was the Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Turkey Chapter and served as an Associate Editor for Signal Processing: Image Communication during 2010-2014. He joined Özyeğin University in 2009, where he served as Head of the Computer Science Department during 2012-2014 and as Dean of the Engineering Faculty as well as Director of the Graduate School of Engineering and Science during 2014-2018.

Canan Sümer
Prof. Dr. Canan SÜMER
Faculty of Social Sciences, Dean

H. Canan Sümer graduated from Middle East Technical University in 1980 with a B.S. Degree in Psychology and received her Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from the same university in 1988. She received her Master’s degree from University of New Haven in 1991 and her Ph.D. from Kansas State University in 1996 in the area of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Between 1996 and 2019 she worked as a Faculty Member in the Department of Psychology, Middle East Technical University and served as the Chair of the Department from 2017 to 2019. Her research interests include development of personnel selection tests and techniques, personality assessment, performance management and culture, workplace mistreatment, and leadership and gender issues at work. Dr. Sümer is on the editorial board of a number of national and international journals in her field. She is a member of the Turkish Psychological Association and Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and has represented Turkey in EFPA’s Assessment Board. She has led a number of large scale projects on military personnel selection and performance management, and was an active member of NATO- HFM Panel’s Task Group on Military Recruitment and Retention. More recently she was involved in a project sponsored by the Scientific and Technological Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) in which a computerized selection system along with an assessment center was developed to be used in the selection of blue-collar and white-collar employees. She is among the inventors of five national and two international patented inventions that came out of this project. Dr. Sümer, who has national and international publications on personnel selection, personality assessment, performance management, military retention, and gender role stereotypes topics, is currently the lead researcher in a TUBİTAK project titled “Workplace Mistreatment from Incivility to Harassment: Outcomes and Intervention Methods from a Cultural Perspective.”

Prof. Dr. Özlem Yenerer Çakmut
Prof. Dr. Özlem YENERER ÇAKMUT
Faculty of Law, Dean

Prof. Dr. Özlem Yenerer Çakmut started her undergraduate education at Istanbul University Faculty of Law in 1988 and completed it in 1992. She completed her Master's Degree, which she started at Marmara University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Public Law, by successfully presenting her thesis titled "Search in Criminal Procedure Law and Immunity of Housing". Afterwards, she earned the right to do her doctorate in Marmara University Social Sciences Institute Public Law Department, and in this process, she completed her doctoral thesis named "Examination of Consent to Medical Intervention in terms of Criminal Law", during which she did research in Germany (Freiburg in Brs. and Cologne). In 1994, she started to work as a Research Assistant at Marmara University, Faculty of Law, Department of Criminal and Criminal Procedure Law; she was appointed as Assistant Professor in 2003. She completed her associate professorship work on "Determination of Pedigree and the Crime of Changing the Child's Pedigree" and passed the Associate Professorship Colloquium, which she entered in 2009, unanimously, and received the title of Associate Professor. She became a Professor in 2014 with her Professorship titled "Disturbing the Peace and Tranquillity of People and Noise Crimes". Prof. Çakmut has published works and presentations in her field. She has been working at Özyeğin University Faculty of Law since 2012. As of February 2022, she took up the position of Dean.

Prof. Dr. Aslıhan Ünlü
Prof. Dr. Aslıhan ÜNLÜ
Faculty of Architecture and Design, Dean

Prof. Dr. Aslıhan Ünlü graduated from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) with a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture in 1986 and completed her Master’s and PhD degrees from the same institution. She continued her academic career at ITU between 1988-2020 where she received “Full Professorship” in 2014. Dr. Ünlü completed her postdoc research project titled “Energy and Visual Performance Appraisal of Electrochromic Windows Integrated with Overhangs in Different Climates” at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of the University of California between 2003-2004. Being a Fulbright Fellow, she worked and taught as a Visiting Professor at Roger Williams University, School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation at Bristol, Rhode Island between 2012-2013. Her main research areas focus on sustainable building technologies and construction, high performance façade & window systems and her research articles have been published nationally and internationally. She has supervised several master and PhD studies. Dr. Unlu worked as the ITU coordinator of EU Erasmus Strategic Partnership Project "Re-use of modernist buildings - RMB" which was completed on September 2019. In addition, she is an editorial board member of Facade Design and Engineering (JFDE), a member of European Facade Network (EFN), a member of Turkish Chamber of Architects, Association of Architecture Education (ArchEd), National Association of Environmental Control.

rof. Dr. Okan Örsan ÖZENER
Prof. Dr. Okan Örsan ÖZENER
Faculty of Engineering, Dean

Prof. Dr. Okan Örsan Özener received his B.Sc (2001) and M.S. (2003) degrees in Industrial Engineering from Middle East Technical University. In 2006, he obtained his M.S. degree in Operations Research and in 2008 his Ph. D in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He worked as a research assistant at Middle East Technical University between 2001 and 2003, and at Georgia Institute of Technology between 2003 and 2008. His research interests are in data science, data-driven optimization, integer/combinatorial optimization, machine learning, non-cooperative/cooperative game theory and supply chain management applications. Prof. Özener has been a faculty member in the Department of Industrial Engineering since 2008 and has served as the Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering between 2012-2022 and as the Vice Dean of the Engineering Faculty from 2022-2024. He was appointed as Deputy Dean of The Faculty of Engineering and Deputy Director Graduate School of Engineering as of January 2025.

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Burçin Ünlü
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Burçin ÜNLÜ
Faculty of Aviation and Aeronautical Science, Dean

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Burçin Ünlü received his BSc and MSc degrees in Physics from Middle East Technical University (METU) in 1996 and Boğaziçi University in 1998, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 2004. He then worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of California, Irvine in the Tu & Yuen Functional Onco-Imaging lab (Department of Radiological Sciences, School of Medicine) for five years. During his postdoctoral studies, he focused on medical imaging and medical physics. Between 2009-2023, he was a faculty member in the Physics Department at Boğaziçi University, serving as department head from 2018-2020 and 2022-2023. In 2017-2018, he worked at the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Biomedical Physics at Stanford University for one year with the support of a Fulbright scholarship. Additionally, he spent 6 months at the Hokkaido University School of Medicine working on proton therapy research. He maintains an ongoing collaboration with the Hokkaido University Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Medicine. In 2023, Dr. Ünlü relocated the Laboratory of Medical and Biological Physics from Boğaziçi University, which he founded in 2012, to the Faculty of Engineering at Özyeğin University. His areas of expertise include medical and biomedical physics, medical imaging, image formation algorithms, biological physics, and computational cancer biology. As of October 2023, Dr. Ünlü was appointed as Acting Dean of Faculty of Aviation and Aeronautical Science.

Prof. Dr. Alper Ünlü
Prof. Dr. Alper ÜNLÜ
Architecture and Design Faculty Representative

Prof. Dr. Alper Ünlü, lisans derecesini 1979 yılında İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Mimarlık Fakültesi’nden almış, yüksek lisans derecesini 1980 yılında İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi MMLS Mimarlık alanında tamamladıktan sonra “Aga Khan Award for Architecture” bursiyeri olarak University Wisconsin Milwaukee’de “Çevre- Davranış Ph.D.” programını takip etmiş, doktora derecesini İTÜ Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü’nden 1987 yılında almıştır. 1988 yılında Yardımcı Doçent, 1990 yılında Doçent olan Ünlü, 1991-1993 yılları arasında King Faisal Üniversitesi’nde “Doçent” olarak çalışmıştır. 2002 yılında İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi’nde Profesör olan Ünlü, 2004 ile 2008 yılları arasında sırasıyla İTÜ Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Afet Yönetim Merkezi Müdürlüklerini yapmıştır. 2018 yılına değin, lisans düzeyinde Mimari Tasarım ve yüksek lisans/doktora düzeyinde ise Çevre-Davranış Teorileri, Mimarlık ve Bilim Felsefesi derslerini vermiştir. Ünlü’nün araştırma konuları mimari tasarım kuramları, çevre-davranış çalışmaları ve kuramları, mekansal dizim teorisi ve bilim felsefesidir. Ünlü’nün yayınlanmış yüzlerce araştırma makalesinin yanı sıra, çevresel tasarım ve mimarlık alanında yayınlanmış üç kitabı ve Türk edebiyatında “Uzaktaki Boşluk” adlı romanı bulunmaktadır. İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi’nden Şubat 2018 tarihinde Özyeğin Üniversitesi Mimarlık ve Tasarım Fakültesi Mimarlık bölümüne katılan Prof. Dr. Ünlü, Haziran 2022 tarihinden beri Üniversite Yönetim Kurulu üyesi görevini yürütmektedir.

Prof. Dr. Işıl Erol
Prof. Dr. Işıl EROL
Business Faculty Representative

Prof. Dr. Alper Ünlü obtained his B.Arch from Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture in 1979 and M.Sc in Architecture from ITU-MMLS Program in Architecture in 1980. He attended the “Ph.D. Program in Environment-Behavior Studies” at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee as an “Aga Khan Award for Architecture” scholar and obtained his Ph.D. in Architecture from ITU Science and Technology Institute in 1987. He taught architectural design and theory courses at ITU as an Assistant and Associate Professor between 1988-1990, and he worked as “Associate Professor” between 1991 and 1993 at King Faisal University, KSA. He continued to teach architectural design at the undergraduate level, environment-behavior theories, architecture, and epistemology at the postgraduate level between 2002 and 2018 as a professor in Architecture at ITU. He also acted as Director of Science and Technology Institute-ITU and Disaster Management Center-ITU between 2004-2008. His research focuses on architectural design theories, environment-behavior studies and theories, space syntax theory, and epistemology. Prof. Ünlü has hundreds of published research articles; at the same time, he is the author of four books, three of them in architecture and environmental design, and the other one was published in 2022; it is a novel in Turkish literature titled “Void at Far.” Prof. Dr. Ünlü, who joined the Department of Architecture at Özyeğin University, Faculty of Architecture and Design in February 2018, has been serving as a member of the University Board of Directors as of June 2022.

Prof. Dr. Taylan AKDOĞAN
Engineering Faculty Representative

Prof. Akdoğan received his Physics and Electrical Engineering undergraduate degrees from Boğaziçi University in 1995. As a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh, he worked on the DONUT experiment at the Fermi National Laboratory, which made the first direct observation of tau-neutrino in 1998. He received his Ph.D. degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in experimental nuclear physics in 2003 with a thesis titled pion production in neutron-proton interactions. He continued his research at MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science as a postdoctoral associate from 2003 to 2004. He contributed to the BLAST program at MIT-Bates Laboratory, which studied the electromagnetic structure of the nucleons and the deuteron and contributed to several experiments at LANSCE utilizing neutron beams to study the nucleon-nucleon systems. He was promoted to the Research Scientist position at MIT in 2004. Then, he joined the Department of Physics at Boğaziçi University in 2006 as an assistant professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor and Full Professor in 2008 and 2013, respectively. His research area has primarily been nuclear and particle physics and computational physics. He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences between 2014-2016 at Boğaziçi University. He established the Linguistic Department and Humanities Courses Coordination Unit during his tenure. Dr. Akdoğan joined Özyeğin University as a full-time faculty member in 2018. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Director of the Graduate School of Engineering and Sciences between 2018-2022. He established several graduate programs, including the MS program in Data Science and the MS program in Artificial Intelligence, during his tenure. He served as the rector's advisor between 2021-2024.