Sinan Tas is the Director of Masters Programs at UW-Madison, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department. He also teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in optimization, decision and risk analysis, and capstone projects.
Previously, he was an Associate Professor and the Program Coordinator of the MS in Integrated Supply Chain Management (ISCM) program at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, and Assistant Professor at Penn State University.
Dr. Tas holds a Ph.D. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering (2012) and an MS degree in Health Systems Engineering (2010) from UW-Madison, an MS degree in International Relations-Security (2006) from METU, an MS degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering (2003) from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and a BS degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Turkish Naval Academy (1999).
Dr. Tas is a certified project manager and has been involved in many operations research, operations management and risk analysis projects with various organizations including Argonne National Laboratories, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, and University of Wisconsin-Health. He has co-authored several journal articles and book chapters and made numerous presentations at prestigious industrial engineering and operations research/management conferences. He has more than ten years of teaching and administrative experience both in graduate and undergraduate levels including in the areas of operations research, operations and supply chain management, lean and continuous improvement, senior design capstone projects, quality engineering, project management, information security, system safety, decision analysis, and risk analysis/management.
Dr. Tas' research and teaching interests span the areas of optimization, decision and risk analysis, project management, Lean Six Sigma, game theory, simulation, system design and development, and gamification in various domains including energy, information systems, homeland security, quality, production systems, operations and supply chain management, complex infrastructure systems, and healthcare.