Prof. Dr. Oguzhan Alagoz
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Oguzhan Alagoz is Procter & Gamble Bascom Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include stochastic optimization, medical decision making, completely and partially observable Markov decision processes, simulation, risk-prediction modeling, and health technology assessment. He served as a member of ISPOR-SMDM Modeling Good Research Practices Task Force which developed recommendations for good modeling practices in state-transition modeling for the evaluation of health care decisions in 2012. He is also co-leading the University of Wisconsin Breast Cancer Simulation Model, a member of the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET), that was used to inform national breast cancer screening guidelines in the US in 2016 and 2024. He is currently serving as an associate editor for Operations Research. He previously served as the editor-in-chief of IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, the flagship journal of IISE in the area of healthcare systems engineering and on the editorial board of Medical Decision Making and IISE Transactions. He is an elected fellow of IISE. He published over 110 refereed journal articles throughout his career. His research has been recognized with numerous awards, including the IISE David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award, the premier research award from IISE, a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, the IISE Outstanding Young Industrial Engineer in Education Award, and several Best Paper Awards from INFORMS.