Yalcin Akcay

Yalçın Akçay joined Melbourne Business School in 2017 and is currently the Director of the Centre for Business Analytics and Associate Dean, Business Analytics.

He received his dual-title PhD from the Penn State Smeal College of Business. Previously, he was an Associate Professor at Koç University.

Yalçın’s research focuses on revenue management, dynamic pricing, inventory management, retail operations, stochastic modelling of service and manufacturing systems. His research has been published in leading academic journals, including Management Science, Operations Research, and Production and Operations Management. Yalçın’s papers received the Wickham Skinner Best Paper Award from the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) and the IIE Transactions Best Paper Award from the Institute of Industrial and System Engineers (IISE). His work was also selected as the Revenue Management and Pricing Section Practice Prize Finalist by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

Yalçın teaches Operations Management at the MBA, Executive MBA and Senior Executive MBA programs.