Ozgur Araz, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Health Promotion, Social, & Behavioral Health
University of Nebraska Medical Center
College of Public Health

Professional Summary 

• June 2011-present    Assistant Professor, College of Public Health, UNMC
• Jan. 2010-June 2011 Postdoctoral Fellow (NIH-MIDAS), Center for Computational Biology& Bioinformatics, The University of Texas at Austin
• Aug. 2010-Jan. 2011 Lecturer, Information Risk and Operations Management Department, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin 
• Aug. 2007-Jan. 2010 Research Associate, Decision Theater, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
• Aug.2006-Aug. 2007 Teaching Assistant, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ

Education

• Ph.D.  Industrial & Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Dec. 2009
• M.S.   Industrial Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Aug. 2006
• B.S.    Industrial Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, June 2005

Research Interests

• Dr. Araz’s research interests are in systems modeling and simulation, operations management in health care, modeling infectious and chronic diseases, decision and cost-effectiveness analysis, Bayesian statistics and stochastic modeling.

Selected Publications

• A simulation model for policy decision analysis: a case of influenza pandemic on a university campus (with T Lant, JW Fowler, M Jehn), Journal of Simulation (2011) 5: 89-100.
• A new method of exercising pandemic preparedness through an interactive simulation and visualization (with M Jehn, T Lant, JW Fowler), 2010 Journal of Medical Systems doi:10.1007/s10916-010-9608-7.
• Supply network capacity planning for semiconductor manufacturing with uncertain demand and correlation in demand considerations (with A Rastogi, JW Fowler, WM Carlyle, A Meltz, B Buke, 2009. International Journal of Production Economics doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2009.11.006.
• Minimizing service times in a public health emergency: a location allocation model (with J. Fowler, T. Lant).  Proceedings of Industrial Engineering Research Conference, 2011 Reno, Nevada.
• A pandemic influenza simulation model for decision making (with Fowler J.W., Lant T., Jehn M.). Proceedings of Winter Simulation Conference, Austin 2009. 
• Simulating pandemic influenza preparedness plan for a public university campus: System Dynamics Approach. (with Lant T., Fowler J.W.).  Proceedings of Winter Simulation Conference, Miami 2008.
• Two-stage stochastic programming for workforce agility with cross training of workers (with John Fowler.). Proceedings of Industrial Engineering Research Conference, 2008 Vancouver, Canada.

Professional Affiliations

• IIE, Institute of Industrial Engineers- Member
• INFORMS, Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences- Member
• Omega Rho, The Honor Society of INFORMS- Member