Professor Turgay Ayer - Biography and Contribution

Turgay Ayer is an Assistant Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

He received a BS in Industrial Engineering from Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey and his MS and PhD degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Dr. Ayer conducts research on stochastic modeling and optimization, with applications in medical decision making, health policy, healthcare operations, service operations, and public policy.


Ph.D. Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Minor in Mathematics.
 M.Sc. Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 B.S. Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Sabanci University, Turkey
Minor in Mathematics.


Recent Research

 Q. Chen, T. Ayer, AC Rose, LJ Nastoupil, CR Flowers (2014), “Comparing the Cost
Effectiveness of Rituximab Maintenance and Radio-immunotherapy Consolidation Therapy
Following First-line Chemo-Immunochemotherapies for Follicular Lymphoma,” under review.

C. Zeng, T. Ayer, C. C. White III, V. Roshan Joseph, J. DeShane (2014) “Optimizing
Cryoprecipitate Collection Schedules,” under review.


1. DA Goldstein, Q. Chen, T. Ayer, D. Howard, J. Lipscomb, RD Harvey, B El-Rayes, CR Flowers
(2014), “Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Pharmacokinetically Guided 5-Fluorouracil therapy in
FOLFOX chemotherapy for metastatic colorectal cancer,” in press, Clinical Colorectal Cancer1
.

http://www.isye.gatech.edu/faculty-staff/profile.php?entry=tayer3


http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~tayer3/CV_Ayer.pdf