Canan Ulu studies Bayesian learning in sequential decision problems, multi-criteria decision-making problems and uses behavioral decision theory to improve decision analysis methods. Her work has been published in journals such as Operations Research, Management Science and Psychological Science among others.
Dr. Ulu is an associate professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Previously, she was an assistant professor in McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. from Duke University, and she holds a B.S. and an M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. She teaches courses in business analytics and decision modelling both in the graduate and undergraduate programs at Georgetown.
Dr. Ulu serves as the department editor for the decision analysis and analytics department at IISE Transactions; she is also an associate editor for the decision analysis area at Operations Research and for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.