Özden Engin Çakıcı, is Assistant Professor of Operations Management at Kogod School of Business, American University. Professor Çakıcı studies operations management with a focus on healthcare services and supply chain management. His research methodology includes stochastic modeling, optimization, inventory theory and applied queuing theory, among others. His healthcare research focuses on healthcare system response to demand management and economic incentives in healthcare as well as inventory policy and information technology choices for managing medical item inventories. His supply chain research focuses on developing exact and approximate inventory policies as well as pricing, distribution, and revenue management of goods. His research has been published in journals including Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Decision Sciences and Decision Support Systems.
Professor Çakıcı received the prestigious Kogod Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching three times and Kogod Faculty Award for Outstanding Service as well as the Dean’s Honor Roll for Outstanding Teaching from Carol G. Simon Graduate School of Business. He earned his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Rochester.