Dursun Delen

Dr. Dursun Delen is the holder of the William S. Spears Endowed Chair in Business Administration, Patterson Family Endowed Chair in Business Analytics, Director of Research for the Center for Health Systems Innovation, and Regents Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. Prior to his academic tenure at OSU, he worked for a privately owned research and consultancy company as a research scientist for five years, during which he led a number of advanced analytics research projects funded by federal agencies, including the Department of Defense (DoD), NASA, National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), among others. Dr. Delen has authored more than 250 peer-reviewed articles and 12 books and textbooks in the fields of Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Business Analytics, AI/Machine Learning, and Data Science. He is often invited to companies for consultancy engagements and national and international conferences for keynote addresses. He regularly chairs tracks and minitracks at various business analytics and information systems conferences. Currently, he is the editor-in-chief for the Journal of Business Analytics and the Journal of AI in Business (in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence), senior editor for the Journal of Decision Support Systems, Decision Sciences, and Journal of Business Research, associate editor for Decision Analytics and International Journal of RF Technologies, and is on the editorial boards of several other academic journals. He has been the recipient of several research and teaching awards, including the prestigious Fulbright Scholar, regents' Distinguished Teacher and Researcher, president's Outstanding Researcher, and Big Data Mentor awards.

Research Interests:

Data Mining; Business Intelligence; AI/Machine Learning; Business Analytics; Data Science; Decision Support Systems; Knowledge Management; Business Process Modeling and Evaluation; Database Design and Implementation