Curriculum Vitae

Profile | Curriculum Vitae

G眉lru 脰zkan-Seely

EDUCATION

2009 Ph.D. in Operations Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
2003 MBA, General Management, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
2001 B.S., Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey.

AREAS OF INTEREST

New Product Development, Knowledge Management, Technology Management, Operations Strategy, Organizational and Behavioral Issues in Operations Management, Dynamic Systems, Competition, Design of Cooperation and Coordination Contracts, Signaling games.

AWARDS AND HONORS

2021 Dean鈥檚 Undergraduate Full-Time Faculty Teaching Excellence Award Runner Up Recognition, June 2021.

2021 Outstanding Community-Engaged Scholar Award, 56吃瓜网

Finalist, Best Paper Award, INFORMS Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES), October 2020.鈥�

2019-2020 MBA Teaching Award, School of Business, 56吃瓜网 (Bellevue location).

Finalist, Junior Faculty Best Paper Award, the 10th International Workshop on Behavioral Operations Management, Guangzhou, China, December 2018.

POSITIONS HELD

2022-Present Associate Professor, School of Business, 56吃瓜网, Bothell, WA.
2015-2022 Assistant Professor, School of Business, 56吃瓜网, Bothell, WA.
2014-2015 Visiting Assistant Professor, Scheller School of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
2009-2014 Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Clemson University, Clemson, SC.
2000-2000 Environmental Engineer, Ucer Engineering, Ankara, Turkey.
1999-1999 Environmental Engineer, Bank of Provinces, Ankara, Turkey.

SELECTED PEER REVIEWER JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

“” with Q. Chen, S. Wang, and A. V. Roth. Forthcoming. Decision Sciences Journal.

鈥溾�� with S. Wang. 2018. Operations Research [Lead article] 66(2) 301-312.

  • Featured in 鈥溾��, Newswise, April 23, 2018.

鈥溾�� with Q. Chen and A. V. Roth. 2017. Journal of Enterprise Transformation for the Special Issue on Innovation as a Catalyst for Enterprise Transformation.

鈥溾�� with C. Gaimon and S. Kavadias. 2015. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM) 17 (2) 177-190.

  • Finalist, Best Paper Award, INFORMS Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES), October 2020.
  • Featured in “,” M&SOM Review, June 12, 2015.

鈥�.鈥� 2014. Quality Management Journal. 21 (4) 23-35.

鈥溾�� with C. Gaimon and K. Napoleon. 2011. Organization Science 22 (6) 1560-1578.

SELECTED WORKING PAPERS

鈥淪earch for the Best Alternative: An Experimental Approach,鈥� with D. Hall and J. Hutchison-Krupat. Under second round review.

鈥淢anaging New Product Development Knowledge Between Competing Firms,鈥� with C. Gaimon.

“A Behavioral Analysis on the Use of an Intermediary in Manufacturing Outsourcing” with Q. Chen, A. Roth and F. Switzer.

SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS

Adapting to Unknown Unknowns: Shepherding Radical Innovations to Market with S. Pathak, M. Tatikonda and P. Nye.

Managing Knowledge for Joint New Product Development with C. Gaimon.

BOOK CHAPTERS

鈥溾�� with C. Rohleder, J. Lin, and I. Kusuma. 2014. In Advances in Conceptual Modeling, 8697 51-58, Springer International Publishing.

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

鈥淎 Behavioral Analysis on the Use of an Intermediary in Manufacturing Outsourcing鈥� with Q. Chen, A. Roth and F. Switzer. 2019. Extended abstract, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM) Conference, Singapore July 2019.

鈥淪ell A Pig in a Poke or Let the Cat out of the Bag: Signaling, Learning and Screening Quality of a New Experience Good through Trial Period鈥� with S. Wang. 2013. Extended abstract, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM) Conference, Fontainebleau, France, July 2013.

鈥淩equirements Engineering in Business Analytics for Innovation and Product Lifecycle Management鈥� with C. Rohleder, J. Lin, and I. Kusuma. 2013. Proceedings of the RIGiM鈥�13 Workshop, Hong Kong, November 2013.

鈥淏usiness Analytics in Innovation and Product Lifecycle Management鈥� with C. Rohleder, J. Lin, and I. Kusuma. 2013. Proceedings of the seventh IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, Paris, France, May 2013.

鈥淜nowledge Management in New Product Development鈥� with C. Gaimon and S. Kavadias. Proceedings of the EUROMA Conference, (European Operations Management Association), Amsterdam, NL, July 2012.

鈥淜nowledge Management in the New Product Development Project鈥� with C. Gaimon, Proceedings of the EUROMA Conference, Ankara, Turkey, June 2007.

鈥淜nowledge Management for Technology Acquisition and Implementation鈥� with C. Gaimon and K. Napoleon, Proceedings of the EUROMA Conference, Ankara, Turkey, June 2007.

MEDIA MENTIONS

“2021 Community Engagement Award winners,” 56吃瓜网 News, March 10, 2021.

‘,’ 56吃瓜网 2019-20 Community Engagement Annual Report, December 9, 2020.

“Business students place in Boeing competition,” 56吃瓜网 News, December 3, 2020.

“MBA students improve food bank ‘flow’,” 56吃瓜网 News, January 15, 2020.

“,” 2019 Community Impact Report, Food Lifeline, December 31, 2019.

鈥溾��, Newswise, April 23, 2018.

“,” Seattle Times, February 9, 2018.

“,” M&SOM Review, June 12, 2015.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

School of Business, 56吃瓜网

  • Operations Management (Graduate level and Undergraduate level core courses)
  • Introduction to Supply Chain Management (Undergraduate level emphasis course)

Scheller College Of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Operations Management (Undergraduate level core course)
  • Management of Technology (Undergraduate level emphasis course)
  • Managing Resources of the Technological Firm (Graduate level emphasis course)
  • Management Science (Sophomore level core course)

Department of Management, Clemson University

  • Operations Management (Graduate level core course)
  • Supply Chain Management (Graduate level emphasis course)
  • Operations Management (Junior level core course)

USAC, Imperial College, London, UK

  • Comparative Economic Systems (Undergraduate/Graduate level elective course)

RESEARCH GRANTS

2013 Summer Research Grant, Clemson University $15,000.

2012 Summer Research Grant, Clemson University $15,000.

ACADEMIC SERVICE

February 2019-October 2019. Member of the INFORMS 2019 ORMS Teaching of Practice Award Committee

August 2017-Current Editorial Review Board Member, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.

2013-2019, Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES), INFORMS.

2014-2017, 2021 Session Chair, College of Product Innovation and Technology Management, POMS.

Reviewer, Management Science (MS), Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Journal (MSOM), Production and Operations Management Society Journal (POMS), Decision Sciences Journal (DSJ), National Science Foundation (NSF), Naval Research Logistics (NRL), Journal of Business Research (JBR), International Journal of Operations Management (IJOM), International Journal of Operations and Production Management (IJOPM), International Journal of Production Research (IJPR).

2015-2016 Cluster Chair, Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Track, INFORMS Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

2008-2019 Session Chair, Technology Management and New Product Development Tracks, INFORMS Conferences.

2010-2011, 2015 Session Chair, Product Innovation and Technology Management Track, POMS Conferences.

2007 Session Chair, EUROMA Conference.

DISSERTATION COMMITTEES

Jaeseok Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology (Graduation: 2018-Expected, Placement upon graduation: University of Auckland, New Zealand).

Qiong Chen, Clemson University (Graduation: 2015, Placement upon graduation: University of Science and Technology of China).

David C. Hall, Clemson University (Graduation: 2012, Placement upon graduation: Wright State University, Dayton, OH).

Tracy Johnson-Hall, Clemson University (Graduation: 2012, Placement upon graduation: The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA).

Enrico Secchi, Clemson University (Graduation: 2012, Placement upon graduation: University of Victoria, BC, Canada).

HONORS AND AWARDS

2018 Beta Gamma Sigma The International Business Honor Society

2012 Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) New Faculty Development Consortium.

2006 Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) Doctoral Consortium.

2001-2002 Member of Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars.

2001 Georgia State University Honor Student.

2001-2002 Georgia Rotary Student Program Scholarship.